Vestkapp-Trollstigen - Norway

Velkommen til Norge! Norwegian western coast from the Vestkapp along Ålesund and Geiranger into Romsdalsfjord. Map starts with date paused at 1900! Change according to your desire. Very hard on higher difficulty. Notes: - use a mod to block new industries from spawning. All necessary factories are placed already. - Check the depth to find the most shallow (cheapest) places for bridges/tunnels. And be aware that many times switching to boats will be cheapest to cross a deep fjord. - "Nidaroslo" in the far high mountains represents the outside world connection. (combined from 'Oslo' and 'Nidaros', the old name of Trondheim) - All crude oil is offshore and quite a distance from land. - Not a map for train-lovers, the terrain makes usage very unfavourable. Even today there is only one single rail laid in this whole county. - Town demands are selected so that no "cheese tactics" are available early on. Map created with accurate heightmap, scaled down to 1:5 to work with the games' abstractions better. Also includes bathymetric (undersea) height, where it was available. Sea level is therefore set at 50m, as the fjords are deeper than the default game scale would allow. Roads are placed according to 1880 maps from the area. If a road suddenly stops at the shore, it means boats where used here at that time in history. The 20 towns are picked by being historic municipalities AND having some space around to expand AND not being very close to a larger municipality. The many tiny places who missed out this way got represented with industries at their location with the towns name. The ground colours represent local spring time, mountains in snow, seashore fresh and green. The treeline moves upwards going inland, the weather and wind from the ocean blasts harshly over the first islands, preventing tree growth on top, whereas further inland that same height supports lush forest once shielded from the ocean.