The map

The map is the whole province, drawn from the simulation as it runs: every resident where they are this minute, every car where its journey has got to, every room furnished as the province lays it out.

Moving about

Wheel	Zoom about the cursor.
Drag (any button)	Move the map.
W A S D, arrows	Move the map.
= / − (or the numpad's)	Zoom in and out.
+, −, ⌂ (right)	Zoom in, zoom out, fit the whole province.
Click	Select a person, a house (its household) or a building; on empty ground, clear the selection.
Double-click a house or building	Drop into it: the map fits it and selects it.
Double-click a person	Follow them.

Fly-to buttons on the right go straight to Emmaus, Newhaven, Ithemba, Unity Provincial Airport, the Unity CBD, Unity Park and the hospital campus; hover over one for what it is.

The breadcrumb at the top left (Province › City › Settlement › House › Person) shows where you are and steps back out: click any step. Esc steps out one level too, after closing whatever is open on top (the scene controls, Settings or Help, the analytics drawer).

Zoom in past the room plans and the map becomes the 3D close-up; the 3D button in the zoom column keeps the map flat at every zoom instead.

What appears as you zoom in

Zoom	You see
The whole province	The three cities and their outlines, the roads, the Hyperline's guideway, the airport, every plot tinted in its household's colour, everyone as a dot of their shape.
A city	Settlement names, road names, building names.
A settlement	Plot numbers, then household names; door marks; the windows of buses and trains; dashed lines between people talking.
A house	The rooms inside every building, with their furniture; residents' household badges, mood and pregnancy marks, schooling ticks and speech bubbles.
A person	Room names, first names, profession codes, and the selected person's full label.

Reading the residents

Every resident is a shape, with marks that say who they are. Press L (or legend at the bottom of the map) for the legend.

Mark	Means
Shape	Personality, by the dominant Big Five trait: circle agreeableness (the Harmoniser), square conscientiousness (the Organiser), triangle extraversion (the Driver), hexagon openness (the Thinker), diamond neuroticism (the Sentinel), pentagon no trait dominant (Balanced).
Colour	Sex: blue for men and boys, orange for women and girls.
Size	Age: babies smallest, then young children, children, teenagers and adults.
Ticks on the top edge	Schooling, from none to five (none, primary, secondary, matric, tertiary, postgraduate).
Ring	Health: red when ill or injured, a thicker red when critical, amber while recovering; a dashed grey ring when grieving.
Dot, top right	Mood: green, grey, amber or red.
Badge, bottom right	The household's colour.
Inner dot	A pregnancy of more than three months.
!	Involved in an incident or a dispute, or has spotted an intruder.
Letters inside the shape	Profession, close up: Cpt pilot, Bus bus driver, Hmb e-hailing driver, Pas pastor, Dr doctor, RN nurse, Tch teacher, SAPS police, Mag magistrate, Clk clerk, Shp shopkeeper, Vnd vendor, Frm farmer, Fld farm worker, Bld builder, Off office worker, Bnk bank officer, Adv attorney, Acc accountant, DMO district medical officer, CB commercial bank officer, Txi taxi driver, Dom domestic worker, Hme homemaker, Ret retired, Stu student.

People inside a vehicle are drawn as the vehicle, and people away from the province are not drawn.

Households and places

Each of the province's plots has a fixed colour, worn by its fence and tint, by the badge on every one of its residents, and by its chips in the lists and the inspector. Select a household (or any of its members) and every member gets a ring in that colour wherever they are in the province.

A place with nobody in it is drawn slightly greyed: a house whose household is out at work, school or church, a shop after hours, a church on a weekday, a parked car, an empty bus. The colour comes back when someone is inside.

Vehicles and other marks

Mark	What it is
Car, bakkie	Households' cars and pickups, parked at home or in bays beside the buildings they serve.
Yellow minibus	A minibus taxi.
Blue bus	A bus on one of the four lines into the terminus.
Teal car with a roof sign	A Hamba e-hailing car: the sign is green while the driver is online, amber on a surge-priced trip, grey offline.
Dark blue car	A police patrol car; its light flashes while it is moving.
White car with a red cross	An ambulance.
Pale capsule with a blue nose	The Hyperline. At speed it leaves a streak along the guideway: a hop between stations takes about a second of simulated time, so the train is drawn gliding between platforms.
Aeroplane	On the apron or the runway only: aircraft in flight are off the map.
Dashed line between two people	A conversation; red when it is tense.
Speech bubble	A conversation's latest line. A red edge is a tense exchange, a green edge singing.
♪	A voice in a hymn.
Pulsing ring	An incident: red, or blue for a stranger asking for help.
Orange flicker, green line, brown shape, dark square	A veld fire, a snake, a stray dog, an intruder.

Following someone

Double-click a person, or select them and press F (or the target button on the right, or follow in the inspector). The camera stays with them as they go about their day. Dragging, zooming, Esc or F again ends the follow.