The real NFS Carbon Map contest submissions!

Full size currently being uploaded to speedyshare(11Mb). Prize totally didn't matter to me but I wish I had finished it earlier so MostWanted2011 could use it in his video. Congrats to winners!

Edit: full sized map here

about the map itself: Due to high compression of the base map I found it difficult to split the map into three layers: water, terrain and roads. Aaaand I failed at the last one because I didn't find another way of doing it other than selection by colour, which is bad method. It's bad because it doesn't support antialiasing and therefore all roads are pixelated as fuck. Deal with it.
The water: selected by colour, expanded by 2px to avoid ugly borders, painted terrain turquoise and sea deep blue-ish, shatter by 200px, gauss blur by 3px and voila - it looks like in the original map of Palmont. logo copypasted.
Terrain: nothing special done, just smoothed the colours out, added shades and tweaked topography in some places, but not everywhere. Seeing white next to blackreally ground my gears because it indicates a cliff taller than a few kilometers while the highest cliff IRL is just above 1km. Anyway, fuck it, that's how MW drew it, not my job to correct this, 'ja tu tylko sprzątam'.

you stole my map and made yellow roads lol

One thing that really is confusing to me is that the canyons were designed with a lot of geographic detail in mind. But then on the map view the canyons are all over the place.It seems like NFSC was rushed towards the end.after the world was created.