What's the scale of the tile map?

[EvilDrGanymede]

Is there any official word on what the scale of the Tile map is - i.e. the 10x10 sector grid we build on? Each individual sector on that looks like it's 100m x 100m from the scale of the people/domes etc - small domes look like they're 30m diameter. Is that right?

But another approach would be to go down from the Global Map, where you select a location depending on lat/lon. Assuming that the selected location is 1 square degree (1 degree on Mars is 59 km across on Mars) then each Sector on the tilemap would be 5.9 km across, but then all the objects we build would be massively oversized.

It makes more sense to me to assume that the size of things at the Sector level is correct and that when we pick a location on the global map we're just shown a 1 square km part of that. Not that what we see on the sector map actually corresponds to anything at that real location on Mars anyway...

But either way, is there an official answer to this?

 

[Chaon]

30m domes would be very small. I think 100m domes would be more likely.

 

[EvilDrGanymede]

For the small domes? I thought 30m diameter looked reasonable for those given the size of the people and things like benches and buildings (that's about 100ft across/high)

But this is why I'm after an official answer

 

[EvilDrGanymede]

Actually looking again I could see them being 50 metres in diameter - I don't think they're 100m across though. It looks like the central intersection of the paths in the dome is about 10 metres in diameter (going by people scale) and the dome is about 5 times the width of that. So maybe a Sector is more like 150-200m across rather than 100m across?