Real Kavala

[WilliamS]

This is what kavala looks like in real life if anyone has ever 

[WilliamS]

Just now, OLL13 said:

Imma go rook bang everyone in the Square

Sounds good lemme bring my Mk and come with you 

[Seán That Irish Guy]

8 minutes ago, OLL13 said:

Imma go rook bang everyone in the Square

ISIS already on that fam.

 

[Bersabee]

Altis Real Life

https://www.google.pt/maps/@39.9023965,25.226326,26328m/data=!3m1!1e3

Stratis Real Life

https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Agios+Efstratios/@39.5122608,24.9438611,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x14a573efa04f5957:0x9a9d769dfa8c7c07

[Axe]

Yes.... This is not news..... 

Yes they are real places. 

[ProjectGemini]

This is wrong.

 

Warning: I'm very passionate about my geography.

There's an actual city called Kavala, marked here:

 

Then there's the actual in-game Kavala, Myrina, shown here:

 

 

 

The devs originally did just call the island Limnos. After some devs got arrested in Greece, they suddenly changed their mind, and said, "No guys it's totally fictional!"

This is why we have a bunch of actual guns and vehicles renamed to stupid bullshit. For example:

Katiba 6.5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-2002

Slammer MBT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkava

Hunter MRAP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_M-ATV

 

In the case of Altis, it seems like they just looked at Google maps and renamed cities to some nearby cities. If you zoom in on the island itself, you'll find that a bunch of the city/town names were just scrambled around. For Kavala, there's a sea route that links the real Kavala and Myrina. One can only assume they saw that marked on Google maps and just chose the name. 

 

 

Here's some pictures of Myrina:

 

Hospital:

 

What would be Kavala square:

 

Canal, the soccer field thing in game, construction site, bridge, etc:

 

View from castle:

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 6, 2016 by ProjectGemini

[Cassettes]

@ProjectGemini Nice work mate, appreciate the effort for the pics and extra info, I knew there was a real palce called Kavala I didn't think it was almost an exact duplicate.

[Maverick]

All the major cities u'll  find on Altis map  like Pyrgos , Athira , Neochori they actually exist in Greece.

[IndianapolisJones]

Asylum meet up in the real Kavala! xD 

[ProjectGemini]

14 hours ago, Gnashes said:

Arma Terrains are sattelite images transposed onto the ground. Chernarus from Arma 2 is based on the area around Povrly, Czech Republic.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Povrly,+Czech+Republic/@50.67427,14.1530619,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47099d7f9b17aa27:0x9287f2912204170b!6m1!1e1

 

Here's Elektrozavodsk, Sniper hill being on the left.

 

Yeah they're all just modeled off of real life places. They use different names, presumably because it gives them some wiggle room with the exact placement of a city or the number of houses/size in a town. Or, in the case of Altis, not getting their devs arrested.. 

Edited April 7, 2016 by ProjectGemini
Worded poorly, and an extra sentence that made no sense :(

[HotWings]

17 hours ago, ProjectGemini said:

 

This is why we have a bunch of actual guns and vehicles renamed to stupid bullshit. For example:

Katiba 6.5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-2002

Slammer MBT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkava

Hunter MRAP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_M-ATV

 

Fun fact, the Katiba is actually a 5.56 not a 6.5

[Gosu]

7 hours ago, IndianapolisJones said:

Asylum meet up in the real Kavala! xD 

Willing to pay my ticket fam?

[IndianapolisJones]

3 hours ago, Gosu said:

Willing to pay my ticket fam?

I need two years to save up to pay my own ticket hahaha

[Le Razoir]

HW Patrol https://www.google.pt/maps/@39.9633483,25.3728503,585m/data=!3m1!1e3

[ProjectGemini]

Meth lab racetrack thingie: 

[ProjectGemini]

6 hours ago, HotWings said:

Fun fact, the Katiba is actually a 5.56 not a 6.5

Well yes, it says that on the Wikipedia page I linked