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17-08-2026, 21:27 · By Lazlow

How Fans Are Mapping GTA 6: Trailer Sightlines, Not a Rockstar Atlas

How Fans Are Mapping GTA 6: Trailer Sightlines, Not a Rockstar Atlas

Fans map Leonida from trailer sightlines. Rockstar printed six region names and no world map. Size multipliers and county lists stay unofficial.

Update, 14 October 2026: Official This has happened: Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look aired on 27 August 2026, on Netflix at 3:00 p.m. ET and on YouTube and rockstargames.com/VI at 9:00 p.m. ET. Watch links: Extended Look hub. Text below is as published.

Two art deco hotels on the beach. A tower in the swamp. Someone draws sightlines through a trailer frame and calls the intersection a county line. That is the community mapping project: careful triangulation, not an official Rockstar atlas.

Where things stand, 14 October 2026

  • Official Grand Theft Auto VI launches Thursday, 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. No PC version has been announced.
  • Official US$79.99 Standard, US$99.99 Ultimate (Take-Two, 24 June). Digital pre-load opens 12 November; the boxed copy is a download code, not a disc.
  • Store listing US stores unlock it at 12:00 a.m. ET on 19 November and show ESRB Mature 17+.
  • Official Rockstar named six in-game radio stations on 8 October.
  • Reported Bloomberg’s 14 October making-of feature covers the two delays, crunch and the next game: our breakdown · quick answers.

GTA6 NOW is independent. Official copy lives on rockstargames.com/VI. In 2002, Vice City arrived with a printed disc map. For GTA VI, Rockstar has released six postcards and no official world atlas.

Official copy
Leonida. Six destinations: Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, Mount Kalaga National Park.

Official tape
Trailer 1 and Trailer 2 postcards. No published world map, boundaries, or square mileage.

Community read
Sightlines and landmark intersections triangulated across trailer frames on Reddit. Unofficial.

Unofficial
1.5x to 2.5x GTA V scale claims, Gator Keys naming, Kelly County atlas projections, and leak-era coordinates.

Sightlines through a trailer frame

Before GTA V launched, mappers estimated coastlines from screenshots. For GTA VI, community mappers align camera angles, pairs of visible landmarks, and 2D grids across first-party footage. A Reddit mapping thread documents how those triangulations evolve. The work relies on Trailer 1 (wetlands and Vice City skyline) and Trailer 2 (the Keys, industrial coastline, and open water). Reconstructed 3D meshes and leak coordinates remain speculative and are tracked separately on our tracker.

Six names on the official gazetteer

Official Grand Theft Auto VI Vice City postcard
Official Vice City postcard. One of six named regions.

Rockstar's Only in Leonida overview provides the only confirmed geographic framework:

Official Grand Theft Auto VI Leonida Keys still
Official Keys still. The chain Rockstar named Leonida Keys.
Tour a few of the must-see destinations across the sunshine state.

The confirmed destinations remain six: Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park, each cataloged on the artwork wall. See our Leonida map and six official regions guides.

Official copy confirms Leonida Keys (not 'Gator Keys') and positions Port Gellhorn as an independent coastal area instead of a Vice City district (Port Gellhorn analysis; Ambrosia breakdown). Within Vice City, official postcard copy names Ocean Beach, Little Cuba, Tisha-Wocka, and VC Port; complete district lists remain community speculation.

A multiplier is not a map

Official Grand Theft Auto VI Grassrivers postcard
Official Grassrivers postcard. Wetlands Rockstar named.

Community estimates projecting Leonida at 1.5x to 2.5x the size of GTA V's Los Santos (breakdown thread) are unofficial calculations. Rockstar has released neither surface area measurements nor comparative scale multipliers.

County labels require equal caution. In-game signage and liveries display Vice-Dale, Leonard, Kelly, and Mariana across trailer footage, but Rockstar has not published a county map. Hamlet and Waning Sands remain wiki conjectures.

The consensus fan layout—Port Gellhorn to the west, Grassrivers in the southwest, Mount Kalaga on the northern fringe, and Vice City dense in the southeast—is an informed triangulation, not an official publication.

Official verification standards

We do not treat leak coordinates as an atlas, adopt fan regional renames, or publish speculative scale multipliers. If the upcoming Extended Look (27 August 2026; Netflix 3:00 p.m. ET, YouTube and Rockstar site 9:00 p.m. ET) debuts an in-engine map interface, confirmed coordinates will be documented immediately. GTA VI launches 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S (release date overview).

Desk pass: 21 August 2026. Official promotional stills verified; scale multipliers, county borders, Gator Keys naming, and leak-era coordinates labeled unconfirmed.

Leonida map — six names Rockstar printed. · Six regions · Port Gellhorn · Ambrosia · Vehicles · Extended Look

Related: What’s confirmed · Leonida map · Map size · Trailers

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Comments (4):
  1. mapsniper
    mapsniper
    18 August 2026 09:31
    Mapping Discord since the 2022 leak. 1.5–2.5x is the honest range. Nobody has a confirmed shoreline for 3x.
    1. kyle_in_tampa
      kyle_in_tampa
      18 August 2026 15:32
      Port Gellhorn being HALF the 2002 Vice City map is what made the scale click. one SIDE city. not a district. insane
    2. oldschoolSA
      oldschoolSA
      18 August 2026 21:28
      Bigger is only good if they use the space. V already had empty hills. If Grassrivers is twenty minutes of water and gators between missions I will be angry.
  2. rdr2enjoyer
    rdr2enjoyer
    27 August 2026 16:22
    RDR2 felt huge because every ridge had a cabin. Arguing 2.4x off trailer sightlines is a guess, not a size.
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