Build your own street in Building Town
With Build your own street you can build a real street that you know, like the street where you live or the one by your school. You type a town and a country, pick the right block of the street, and build it with a bulldozer, a dumper and a road roller. When it is done, you earn 700 coins and watch cars and vans use your street.
Build your own street is part of the membership, and the search needs the internet. A street you have chosen is saved in your save slot, so you can keep building it later.
How do you find your street?
Open the Jobs board and choose Build your own street. (On the Street projects card it is called Choose your town and street.)
The Choose your street card opens. Type a town and a country in Town and country, like Uppsala, Sweden.
If you like, type the street's name in Street name (optional).
Press Find place. The game says Loading map data… while it looks.
If there are several places with that name, the game asks Which place do you mean? Pick the right one.
Now you see a list of street blocks near that place. Each one shows the street name, the two cross streets at its ends and its length, for example Long Street · Mill Road – Church Lane · 120 m. The closest blocks come first.
Type in Filter street names to find your street faster, then choose the block you want to build.
The Street projects card now shows your town, a small map with your block marked, and a button like Long Street · Gravel road · +700 coins. Choose it to start building.
A grown-up can help with the spelling of the place.
Why is my street not in the list?
The game can only build some blocks. A block can be in the list when:
- it is an ordinary town street with a name, not a private road or a big highway;
- it is between 20 and 340 metres long;
- it is less than about 650 metres from the place you searched for;
- cars can drive another way round while the block is closed.
So a dead-end street or a road with no other way round can't be chosen. The game then says No matching block with a drivable detour. Clear the street filter to see other blocks nearby, or search for another place, like a nearby street or the name of the area.
| What the game says | What to do |
|---|---|
| No place found. Try adding a country or checking the spelling. | Check the spelling and add the country, like Lund, Sweden. |
| Which place do you mean? | Pick the right place from the list. |
| No matching block with a drivable detour. | Clear Filter street names, or search for a place nearby. |
| Map service unavailable. Try again or open a saved street. | Check the internet and try again, or open a street you saved before. |
Press Change search to go back and type a new place.
How do you build it?
Your own street is a gravel road, built in three stages over eight sections, just like Vasagatan in the Herrhagen street projects:
| Stage | Machine | Tool button | What to do |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulldozer | Lower blade | Drive forward along the marked strip to grade all eight sections. |
| 2 | Dumper | Tip gravel | Drive forward to spread the gravel base. |
| 3 | Road roller | Start vibration | Roll forward over all eight sections, then reverse back over them. |
After each stage, press Hand over to next machine. After the last one, press Inspect and open. You get 700 coins, and the street opens to traffic.
The machine follows the street by itself. You drive with W and S (RT and LT, or Forward and Reverse) and use the tool with E (A, or the big tool button). All the keys are on the controls page.
Traffic on your street
While you work, cars and delivery vans drive round the roadworks on the streets nearby. They follow the real one-way streets. In places where people drive on the left, like the UK or Japan, the cars drive on the left too. When your street opens, the traffic starts to use it.
The street plan in the corner shows the traffic as dots. The houses only follow the shapes of real buildings near the street, and the traffic trips are made up for the game.
Can you build more than one street?
Yes. Each new block you choose is a new street project that pays 700 coins when you open it. Your other places are kept: the Street projects card has an Open button for each one, like Open Herrhagen, Karlstad, and you can switch between them. Return to home town takes you back to your building site.
Where does the map come from?
The streets and buildings come from OpenStreetMap, a free world map made by volunteers. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the ODbL licence. When you search, the place you type is sent through the Contenta Games server to OpenStreetMap services; this only happens when you use this feature. The links at the bottom of the card lead to a page about the map data. Map data (ODbL) saves your street's map as a small file. Read more on the page for grown-ups.
See also
- Herrhagen street projects: two ready-made real streets.
- All nine machines: the bulldozer, dumper and road roller.
- FAQ: quick answers about the street search.
- Play Building Town and find your street.
