Rifts NA map

Witchcraft · Unread post by **Witchcraft** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:13 am

I realize it's been said but I've got to chime in here with my heartfelt gratitude! Thank you for the map mobuttu! Now what I'd like to do is get it sized to fit my refrigerator so I can move game pieces like MAGNETS. I might help my players envision exactly where they are. *wink*

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:16 am

I'm really glad for your support. It's good to hear you are getting use and enjoying my Rifts NA map!!

I'd also buy a map from Palladium but unfortunelly it seems it won't happen soon (according to Kevin words in POH interview).

Akashic Soldier · Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:28 am

I just wish we had official rules for how common ley lines are so I know I could device fairly if one is nearby or not. That is one of my biggest disappointments.

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:40 am

Akashic Soldier wrote:I just wish we had official rules for how common ley lines are so I know I could device fairly if one is nearby or not. That is one of my biggest disappointments.

there is no set amount. different area's have different frequencies.

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:53 am

Mobuttu you should take a look at the Canada book. It has some info that would be good on the map. Simvan ranges. Where Psistalker ranges are etc.

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:12 am

Daeglan wrote:Mobuttu you should take a look at the Canada book. It has some info that would be good on the map. Simvan ranges. Where Psistalker ranges are etc.

Thanks for the feedback. Already done. Take a look at these blog entries about my (future-to-be) Tribal wars campaign. Click on the maps to enlarge them.

Those map layers are not in the NA map to avoid "overlayering".

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 12:18 pm

Could you do a version that is a PDF using the the same size as the NA map so it can be printed on acetate? then it can be layered on as needed.

dragonfett · Unread post by **dragonfett** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:00 pm

I was under the impression that the ley lines in a given area fluctuated based on the time of year, ambient levels of magic, and other things that I can't think of right now.

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:03 am

dragonfett wrote:I was under the impression that the ley lines in a given area fluctuated based on the time of year, ambient levels of magic, and other things that I can't think of right now.

That is true. AFAIK, stable ley line *potency* do fluctuate, but not it's location. Although new unstable ones would appear/disappear through these processes (that is the magic of Rifts!)

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:20 am

mobuttu wrote:
Daeglan wrote:Mobuttu you should take a look at the Canada book. It has some info that would be good on the map. Simvan ranges. Where Psistalker ranges are etc.

Thanks for the feedback. Already done. Take a look at these blog entries about my (future-to-be) Tribal wars campaign. Click on the maps to enlarge them.

Those map layers are not in the NA map to avoid "overlayering".

Could you do a version with them. I want to print out a version with them in place. When you zoom in I do not see an issue with it. And i would like to print it out with all the info

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 4:59 am

Daeglan wrote:Could you do a version with them. I want to print out a version with them in place. When you zoom in I do not see an issue with it. And i would like to print it out with all the info

No prob. I'm now fixing my computer. But I'll do it ASAP.

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:24 pm

Cool. Just do them as outlines with out fill

Stonefur · Unread post by **Stonefur** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:31 pm

Massive Rep ... Nice work!!!

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:32 am

Glad you all like it!

Daeglan, I'm still working on your request. My computer broke and I can't install my cad software. I'll do it ASAP.

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 5:52 am

mobuttu wrote:Glad you all like it!

Daeglan, I'm still working on your request. My computer broke and I can't install my cad software. I'll do it ASAP.

No problem

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:57 pm

Madhaven area detailed. New version (v1.6) of the map available. See the first message of this thread.

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:09 pm

Daeglan wrote:
mobuttu wrote:
Daeglan wrote:Mobuttu you should take a look at the Canada book. It has some info that would be good on the map. Simvan ranges. Where Psistalker ranges are etc.

Thanks for the feedback. Already done. Take a look at these blog entries about my (future-to-be) Tribal wars campaign. Click on the maps to enlarge them.

Those map layers are not in the NA map to avoid "overlayering".

Could you do a version with them. I want to print out a version with them in place. When you zoom in I do not see an issue with it. And i would like to print it out with all the info

Daeglan, here you can find the Tribal Wars map with Simvan, Psi-Stalker and Native American ranges over the whole NA Map.

Hope this helps.

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:19 pm

mobuttu wrote:
Daeglan wrote:
mobuttu wrote:
Daeglan wrote:Mobuttu you should take a look at the Canada book. It has some info that would be good on the map. Simvan ranges. Where Psistalker ranges are etc.

Thanks for the feedback. Already done. Take a look at these blog entries about my (future-to-be) Tribal wars campaign. Click on the maps to enlarge them.

Those map layers are not in the NA map to avoid "overlayering".

Could you do a version with them. I want to print out a version with them in place. When you zoom in I do not see an issue with it. And i would like to print it out with all the info

Daeglan, here you can find the Tribal Wars map with Simvan, Psi-Stalker and Native American ranges over the whole NA Map.

Hope this helps.

For some reason I get a Drop box 404

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:45 am

Daeglan wrote:For some reason I get a Drop box 404

Fixed.

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:45 pm

Awesome. Thanks

Kagashi · Unread post by **Kagashi** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:07 pm

Impressive and very useful. Been watching this topic for a few years now and I am impressed with the amount of time and detail you have put into it. Kudos.

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:54 am

Kagashi wrote:Impressive and very useful. Been watching this topic for a few years now and I am impressed with the amount of time and detail you have put into it. Kudos.

Thanks! I'm now starting to work on a On-line GIS Map with book references in each map element. It's a huuuge work, but I think i'll be very usefull!

jaymz · Unread post by **jaymz** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:34 pm

excellent

Snake Eyes · Unread post by **Snake Eyes** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:25 pm

Ok, i just saw this.....this may be a big help in next weeks rifts game

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:18 pm

Glad you like it!

Myrrhibis · Unread post by **Myrrhibis** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:37 pm

Mobuttu:

Wanted to let you know that this map has helped my group tremendously. I was able to get it printed out nicely sized @ work.

And I've sent it to my gaming group, as we Skype from 3 locations - having your map allows up to see the same information, at a glance, and explain some of the powers-at-play to the newer players w/o pulling out loads of books.

Please keep up the great work (I'd donate if I could).

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:47 am

Myrrhibis wrote:Mobuttu:

Wanted to let you know that this map has helped my group tremendously. I was able to get it printed out nicely sized @ work.

And I've sent it to my gaming group, as we Skype from 3 locations - having your map allows up to see the same information, at a glance, and explain some of the powers-at-play to the newer players w/o pulling out loads of books.

Please keep up the great work (I'd donate if I could).

I'm flattered!! That's very kind of you! I did this map precisely for helping my players and myself understand and bundle together all the geographic information scattered in Rifts books, and I'm really glad that it serve you as well as it does to me. :-D

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Fri May 03, 2013 5:21 am

Akimoto873 wrote:This is very nice.
Do anyone know if there are other maps of other continents (Middle/South America, Europe, Asia) being made?

Sorry, not from me.

Unread post by **NMI** » Mon May 27, 2013 4:59 pm

I dont think Chi-Town is in the middle of Illinois. I believe it should be just south of Chicago.

dragonfett · Unread post by **dragonfett** » Tue May 28, 2013 10:37 pm

Ninjabunny wrote:
NMI wrote:I dont think Chi-Town is in the middle of Illinois. I believe it should be just south of Chicago.

Doesn't the GM guide have it marked slightly in between the center and the ruins of Chicago?

By the looks of the GMG, it would seem that they have it nearly due south from Chicago, where as Mobuttu's map has it more west and slightly more north. The location of Chi-Town was previously discussed in another thread (I can't remember off hand), but I do remember that someone had said that the best location for it would have been where two (or more) interstate highways cross. By looking at an actual map of Illinois, the best two cities would be Champaign (where I-72 and I-57 cross), which happens to be roughly 80-100 miles due south, and Peoria (where I-55, I-72, and I-39 go to or through) which is roughly 80-100 miles southwest of Chicago. They are both fantastic places for Chi-Town to be, and the most important part is that they are both about 80 miles south of the ruins of Chicago. And as for the maps in the books, I look at them like I would an old west frontier map. The locations may be off a little and the scale may not be right, but as long as it is roughly 75% correct or better, I am happy.

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:33 am

I'll check it out in the next revision. Thanks all for the insight!

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 3:32 pm

mobuttu wrote:
Kagashi wrote:Impressive and very useful. Been watching this topic for a few years now and I am impressed with the amount of time and detail you have put into it. Kudos.

Thanks! I'm now starting to work on a On-line GIS Map with book references in each map element. It's a huuuge work, but I think i'll be very usefull!

Will this be a global map? Not entirely clear on what a GIS map is. I am semi familiar. IE I know it is a computer map. I just don't know what a GIS map entails or how they work.

dragonfett · Unread post by **dragonfett** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:41 pm

Daeglan wrote:
mobuttu wrote:
Kagashi wrote:Impressive and very useful. Been watching this topic for a few years now and I am impressed with the amount of time and detail you have put into it. Kudos.

Thanks! I'm now starting to work on a On-line GIS Map with book references in each map element. It's a huuuge work, but I think i'll be very usefull!

Will this be a global map? Not entirely clear on what a GIS map is. I am semi familiar. IE I know it is a computer map. I just don't know what a GIS map entails or how they work.

GIS stands for Geographic Information System

Daeglan · Unread post by **Daeglan** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:23 pm

dragonfett wrote:
Daeglan wrote:
mobuttu wrote:
Kagashi wrote:Impressive and very useful. Been watching this topic for a few years now and I am impressed with the amount of time and detail you have put into it. Kudos.

Thanks! I'm now starting to work on a On-line GIS Map with book references in each map element. It's a huuuge work, but I think i'll be very usefull!

Will this be a global map? Not entirely clear on what a GIS map is. I am semi familiar. IE I know it is a computer map. I just don't know what a GIS map entails or how they work.

GIS stands for Geographic Information System

Does not answer the question really.

grandmaster z0b · Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:28 am

Excellent map, so awesome.

The location of Chi-Town in the books is actually fairly vague. Rather than tell us exactly where Chi-Town is, we are told that the ruins of old Chicago are "...some 80 miles northeast of Chi-Town." (RUE p29/RMB p141). Apart from that we have only a dot on a relatively small map. That dot looks a lot more south than southwest, in fact if you draw a line from Old Chicago to St Louis on that map then Chi-Town is on the east side of that line, whereas you would expect Chi-Town to be clearly west of that line if you conclude it is roughly 80 miles southeast of Chicago as it is on this map.

To be honest I'm happy keeping it there for the moment because your map is so much more superior to anything published I'd rather stay with that.

Also where you have it puts it quite close to the Illinois River which makes perfect sense. A town in a post apocalyptic setting would naturally be built near a fresh water supply.

dragonfett · Unread post by **dragonfett** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:55 am

grandmaster z0b wrote:Excellent map, so awesome.

The location of Chi-Town in the books is actually fairly vague. Rather than tell us exactly where Chi-Town is, we are told that the ruins of old Chicago are "...some 80 miles northeast of Chi-Town." (RUE p29/RMB p141). Apart from that we have only a dot on a relatively small map. That dot looks a lot more south than southwest, in fact if you draw a line from Old Chicago to St Louis on that map then Chi-Town is on the east side of that line, whereas you would expect Chi-Town to be clearly west of that line if you conclude it is roughly 80 miles southeast of Chicago as it is on this map.

To be honest I'm happy keeping it there for the moment because your map is so much more superior to anything published I'd rather stay with that.

Also where you have it puts it quite close to the Illinois River which makes perfect sense. A town in a post apocalyptic setting would naturally be built near a fresh water supply.

That is also assuming that Chi-Town is almost exactly southwest, when it could be anywhere from south-southwest to west-southwest and so forth...

Riftmaker · Unread post by **Riftmaker** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:44 pm

Great map I use it every week when planning my game. Is it still being updated?

mobuttu · Unread post by **mobuttu** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:51 am

Riftmaker wrote:Great map I use it every week when planning my game. Is it still being updated?

Thanks! Glad to hear it is used!

I still have several unread Rifts books (specially the latest ones), so a new update is something not be ruled out.

Acid0philus · Unread post by **Acid0philus** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:38 am

There was a question involving the Waukegan CSN base. I would assume that the CS has simply moved into the US Navy's Naval Education and Training Center Great Lakes, in Waukegan, Illinois. I spent 6 months in that place, and have a handful of great memories, and many more I'd rather not revisit (basic training) at that place. A bit too flat for this Georgia Boy.

Jorick · Unread post by **Jorick** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:26 pm

Like everyone else, I think this is an amazing map, and I find it invaluable.

One thing that's been driving me crazy though is this town on the Ohio River called Blackberry.

What is it? I can't find it in any of the books. I don't know where to look. Help!

Myrrhibis · Unread post by **Myrrhibis** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:00 pm

mobuttu wrote:
Riftmaker wrote:Great map I use it every week when planning my game. Is it still being updated?

Thanks! Glad to hear it is used!

I still have several unread Rifts books (specially the latest ones), so a new update is something not be ruled out.

Just wanted to chime in the your map came in extremely helpful in a session last month, when we were determining how to travel to escort a VIP between Merctown to Lazlo. Your shadings & showing where CS 'owned' locations were, helped the less-experienced-in-Rifts players realize that going from point A to point B in a straight line is NOT a wise idea. :lol:

Hope to see more information as you work your way through the other books.

Happy holidays!

Riftmaker · Unread post by **Riftmaker** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 1:01 am

Id like to mention not a week goes by I dont use this map in my game

Arakash · Unread post by **Arakash** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 7:02 am

This is a really useful resource that ive seen used in games and used myself. Its also great for getting a better understanding of Rifts-NA as a whole.

I saw that there was an earlier version of this (1.2 i think) as a png, which loads far quicker(for me) than the pdf. Very useful.

Raze_7 · Unread post by **Raze_7** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 11:17 am

mobuttu wrote:At last! It's done. Download it by clicking on the map image. Enjoy! (Warning it's a 4,5 MB pdf).

NA Rifts Atlas v1.2.

NA Rifts Atlas v.1.5.: Latest version available.

NA Rifts Atlas v.1.6.: Latest version available. Download from Dropbox.
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Updated download instructions from Mack:
-- Click on this link. You're pop-up blocker will probably starting pinging, but don't change your settings.
-- At the bottom of the page, in small print, you will see "Save file to your PC: click here." Use that link to download the PDF file (ignore the giant "download" button at the page bottom). Please note that it is a 20MB file.
-- DISCLAIMER: As with any online file, please take appropriate security procautions. While this file is provided by mobuttu in good faith, the possibility of third-party malice always exists.

A ".png" format version is also available at this link courtesy of SkyeFyre.

Actually, I can't find the file, or the small button that says Save file to your PC: Click here. In fact, the only thing I can find is something that wants me to download a PDF converter, and a message that says the file is invalid.

Kagashi · Unread post by **Kagashi** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:04 am

same.

Riftmaker · Unread post by **Riftmaker** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:34 am

For real palladium needs to pay this guy and make this map into a nice rifter submission or maybe a rifts earth atlas.

Kagashi · Unread post by **Kagashi** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:54 am

Still an awesome product.

Next version, do you mind adding the nexus points and ley lines associated with the Deep South on page 32 of RUE? Nexus Points are at Oxford MS, Selma AL, Talladega AL, and Guntersville AL.

Myrrhibis · Unread post by **Myrrhibis** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:28 pm

Riftmaker wrote:For real palladium needs to pay this guy and make this map into a nice rifter submission or maybe a rifts earth atlas.

For sure.

blackwingedheaven · Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:45 am

As a native Kentuckian, and a Lexingtonian, it always interests me to see where mapmakers wind up putting places in the Federation of Magic. =3

Æthereal Flux · Sun May 10, 2015 12:17 am

there should be a lay line on top of stone mountain GA. the historical formation of the mountain could be an adventure all on its own. Bring on the Deep South!