POIs

[Psicodreamics]

I have found these buildings:

BAGHDAH CITY

• 'Unknown Soldier' Monument 
• Martyr’s Memorial (Al-Shaheed Monument)
• Al-Asifyah Mosque
• Mustansiriyah Madrasah
• Iraq Telecom and Post Company ITPC
• Baghdad Tower
• Victory Arch
• Baghdad Clock
• 14-July Bridge

BAGHDAH AIRPORT

• Qayoom Mosque
• Baghdag International Airport Hotel
• General Company for Air Navigation
• Instituto de Capacitacion y Desarrollo
• Karbala Terminal
• Samarra Terminal
• Babylon Terminal
• Ninawa Terminal
• Vvip Terminal

ERBIL

• Downtown Erbil
• Erbil Citadel
• Marymane

Have you found anything else?

Edited January 2 by Psicodreamics

[Oban]

There's so many POI's missing that are significant landmarks in Baghdad.. the more I fly around Baghdad, the more I realise that those who created the map didn't really have sufficient knowledge of the area..and the more disappointed I become.

I spent 18 years as a Private Security Contractor, from 2004 until 2022... the last 6 years in Baghdad itself..

No Saddam's palaces anywhere...
No half built Grand Mosque in Mansour
No Twin Mosques coming out of the IZ onto route Irish
No Babylon or Rashid Hotels
No Ibn Sina Hospital

No Gate archway at Khadimiya
No Assasins Gate archway exiting the IZ onto Haifa Street There's another archway on the straight road before Ibn Sina Hospital.
No Ministry of Oil
No Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)


The road from Baghdad to BIAP is way too overpopulated by Palm trees, it wasn't like that at all..even when I left there in 2022, it wasn't remotely as dense as the map, and from 2004-2010 the BIAP road/Route Irish was devoid of trees altogether.
 

[Psicodreamics]

There are many places to fill the map. I'm sure ED will add more POI's in the future. 

[Ala12Rv-Tundra]

On 12/17/2024 at 6:44 PM, Oban said:

There's so many POI's missing that are significant landmarks in Baghdad.. the more I fly around Baghdad, the more I realise that those who created the map didn't really have sufficient knowledge of the area..and the more disappointed I become.

I spent 18 years as a Private Security Contractor, from 2004 until 2022... the last 6 years in Baghdad itself..

No Saddam's palaces anywhere...
No half built Grand Mosque in Mansour
No Twin Mosques coming out of the IZ onto route Irish
No Babylon or Rashid Hotels
No Ibn Sina Hospital

No Gate archway at Khadimiya
No Assasins Gate archway exiting the IZ onto Haifa Street There's another archway on the straight road before Ibn Sina Hospital.
No Ministry of Oil
No Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)


The road from Baghdad to BIAP is way too overpopulated by Palm trees, it wasn't like that at all..even when I left there in 2022, it wasn't remotely as dense as the map, and from 2004-2010 the BIAP road/Route Irish was devoid of trees altogether.
 

I read about Irish route on several books. 

What's the actual name/part where convoys were ambushed? Checking google maps in guessing it's airport street? Qadisaya expressway? 

[Oban]

11 hours ago, Ala12Rv-Tundra said:

I read about Irish route on several books. 

What's the actual name/part where convoys were ambushed? Checking google maps in guessing it's airport street? Qadisaya expressway? 

Convoys and PSC's were hit pretty much all over Baghdad, Route Huskies, Senator, and Tampa, several were put out of bounds to Miilitary traffic

[Hawkeye_UK]

On 12/17/2024 at 5:44 PM, Oban said:

There's so many POI's missing that are significant landmarks in Baghdad.. the more I fly around Baghdad, the more I realise that those who created the map didn't really have sufficient knowledge of the area..and the more disappointed I become.

I spent 18 years as a Private Security Contractor, from 2004 until 2022... the last 6 years in Baghdad itself..

No Saddam's palaces anywhere...
No half built Grand Mosque in Mansour
No Twin Mosques coming out of the IZ onto route Irish
No Babylon or Rashid Hotels
No Ibn Sina Hospital

No Gate archway at Khadimiya
No Assasins Gate archway exiting the IZ onto Haifa Street There's another archway on the straight road before Ibn Sina Hospital.
No Ministry of Oil
No Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)


The road from Baghdad to BIAP is way too overpopulated by Palm trees, it wasn't like that at all..even when I left there in 2022, it wasn't remotely as dense as the map, and from 2004-2010 the BIAP road/Route Irish was devoid of trees altogether.
 

yea alot of VRP's are missing.

My favorite however for comical value of how not to implement is the Victory Arch crossed swords in Bagdad (swords of Qadissiya), have a fly down and a chuckle at the narrow dirt track, lack of those huge lighting towers and instead of the salute platform half way down its some kebab shop, its about as bad as it gets and thats before we get onto how the swords themselves look like made out of stone! 

And yea trees everywhere (even in the euphrates let alone route Irish).

The only part of the map i enjoy at present is the elevation mesh in the mountains along the Turkish border.  The cities need a huge amount of work and i cannot understand the mentality to include alot of the Northern airfields and cluster them when miss out H3/H2 on the initial release. 

I think we will need once again clever community members to implement the LZ's - its a pity this map wasn't done by Urda media, as yet im very unconvinced this low quality sat image stick on buildings is the way forward.  Happy to be proven wrong.

[rcjonessnp175]

18 hours ago, Hawkeye_UK said:

yea alot of VRP's are missing.

My favorite however for comical value of how not to implement is the Victory Arch crossed swords in Bagdad (swords of Qadissiya), have a fly down and a chuckle at the narrow dirt track, lack of those huge lighting towers and instead of the salute platform half way down its some kebab shop, its about as bad as it gets and thats before we get onto how the swords themselves look like made out of stone! 

And yea trees everywhere (even in the euphrates let alone route Irish).

The only part of the map i enjoy at present is the elevation mesh in the mountains along the Turkish border.  The cities need a huge amount of work and i cannot understand the mentality to include alot of the Northern airfields and cluster them when miss out H3/H2 on the initial release. 

I think we will need once again clever community members to implement the LZ's - its a pity this map wasn't done by Urda media, as yet im very unconvinced this low quality sat image stick on buildings is the way forward.  Happy to be proven wrong.

I think at these early stages its certainly an eye sore in many area's especially for folks who have been to these areas.  That being said and dam i wish i had pics of my time in and around Baghdad, i think ED is receiving allot of help from the community as far a visual references its my guess anyways.

  The mountains to the north are absolutely next gen, for DCS.  

[Huilque151]

Hi! This its a list forty POI related to 1991 (mainly) wulf war conflict. 
If somebody want to see the full document with pictures & google earth file (exportable to CF) please follow this link. Please helpme to shard this with ED and de development teams, regards!

Leadership & command facilities.

1. Royal Saudi Air Force Center (CETCOM installations) - Riyadh city.
2. KSA Ministry of Defense (CETCOM installations) - Riyadh city
3. Al Jahrah IOC & CP area (Intercept operation center), Kuwait, N 29 23.450 E 047 37.390
4. 5th Air defense sector operation center), Al Salem, Kuwait, N 29 21.050 E 047 38.300
5. Ministry of Defense, Baghdad city. N 33 20.681 E 044 22.902
6. Al Salam Palace (republican guard HQ), Baghdad city - N 33 16.697 E 044 23.981
7. Palace former regime president (Ancestral Hussain house),Kitrit N 34 35.396 E 043 41.866
8. Ba´ath Party HQ, Baghdad - N 33 18.066 E 044 22.962
9. Tharthar Presidential palace: N 33 43.265 E 043 29.373 - (2003)
10. Saddam Presidential VIP Facilities: N 33 43.226 E 043 31.674 (2003)
11. Iraq intelligence service 1991 HQ.(Replaced today) N 33 18.551 E 044 21.465

Nuclear, Chemical, Biological & conventional weapons facilities.

12. FAC Missile storage N 29 21.050 E 047 38.300
13. Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Center, N 33 12.380 E 044 31.136
14. Al Furat Manufacturing Facility, - N 32 45.142 E 044 16.918 - (2003)
15. Al Fullaj II Clorine and phenol plant - N 33 28.349 E 043 43.558 (1991 - 2003).i think
16. AL Fallujah III castor oil extraction plant - N 33 28.561 E 043 39.771 (1991 - 2003)
17. Abu Ghurayb (CW facilities) "Baby milk factory" - N 33 18.346 E 044 10.807 (1991)
18. Al mamount solid propellant plant 33°01'10"N 44°13'10"E (1991 - 2003)
19. Al qaim Superphosphate Fertilizer Plant - N 34 19.451 E 041 10.836.
20. Khamisiyah ammo storage complex - N 30 47.670 E 046 24.308

Communications facilities.

21. Baghdad telecom center (Bag TWR) N 33 18.194 E 044 21.256.
22. Umm al Aish, SATCOM, Kuwait. N 29 26.850 E 047 41.128

Naval Facilities.

23. Al Basrah Naval Base A HQ 1991 (Today destroyed ) N 30 33.227 E 047 48.474
24. Umm Qasr Port Facilities (Warehouse attacked on 91, last picture 2018) N 30 01.796 E 047 56.990

Oil facilities.

25. Al Basrah Petroleum Refinery in Iraq - N 30 27.480 E 047 39.650
26. Baiji Oil Refinery - 35° 0'26.86"N 43°30'1.80"E
27. As-Samawah Petro Refinery South- N 31 14.748 E 045 15.395
28. K3 Pumping Station, Near Hadithah - N 34 04.132 E 042 20.947
29. K1 pump station: N 35 30.773 E 044 18.527
30. K2 pump station N 34 54.812 E 043 24.870
31. K3 Pumping Station, Near Hadithah - N 34 04.132 E 042 20.947
32. H-1 Pump station and POL N 33 47.360 E 041 27.663
33. H-3 Pump station and POL N 32 56.876 E 039 43.954
34. Burned Kuwaiti oil fields area center point N 28 58.796 E 047 59.437

Power plants facilities:

35. Al Musayyib TPP N 32 50.574 E 044 16.491
36. Baghdad TPP N 33°17'22.02" E 044°27'9.74"
37. Salah al din TPP N 34° 5'18.49"N E 043°58'33.65"
38. Al Mawsil Power station. N 36°18'58.89" E 043° 1'27.11"

SCUD facilities

- H2 Airfield N 33°21.952' E 40°35.057' 
- H3 Airfield N 32°55.817' E 39°44.774'
Note* i dont have the precise position of this scud site but i can recommend it being modeled around the H2-H3 Airfield. I added a picture of how Scud storage bunkers, rearm point and trench look like in 1991.

Bridges and rail yards facilities.

39. Baghdad Railroad yard N 33°19'30.92" E 44°22'48.10"
40. Al Zubayr Railroad yard N 30°28'29.58" E 47°39'16.53
 

[Oban]

Taken back in 2006, as you can see the Cross Swords parade area is actually pretty massive... I believe the Blackhawks were part of Tony Blair's visit to Baghdad that day.

[Psicodreamics]

This post was created to find POIs in the actual Iraq map.

If you want any new POI use the "Wish List" section.

Remember this is a early access map and new buildings will be added in the future.