Map Findings
Geography worked out from official footage: coastlines, landmarks, regions and the distances between them. Posted by members and reviewed by a moderator before it appears.
What belongs in Map Findings
Map analysis is the most rewarding thing to do with pre-release footage and the easiest to get wrong. Rockstar has confirmed six regions of Leonida by name and published no map, so everything beyond those six names is inference.
The community's ~125 km² area estimate is a good example: it is a careful piece of work built from vehicle-length references and travel times, and it is still an estimate. Findings that state their method travel well; findings that state a conclusion do not.
The six confirmed regions and what is actually known about scale are covered on the map hub.
What makes a strong post
- Show the frame you worked from, and say which video and roughly where.
- State your method: what you measured against, and what you assumed.
- Give a range rather than a single number where the method supports one.
- Say which of the six confirmed regions you think it belongs to, and why.
What gets removed
- Map reconstructions built from datamined coordinates.
- Presenting a community estimate as a published figure.