Hey,
I have now driven the merged area around Hamburg and sorry, the region is not good, Mandelsoft.
I don't know, which street map you have used, when you at SCS were rebuilding Hamburg and surrounding, but here are my critics:
1. It's nice to have the 261 - but why don't you have but in the Moorburg exit too? There is enough space before the Elbtunnel for it. And even if not: It's not even in any way logical, that now Othmarschen is annouced already before the Elbtunnel. Sorry, but the original sign looks much different.
2. Why is the A7 between Othmarschen and where you would have the A23 cross only three lanes? You had it right in the ProMod-Version of 2018: The whole A7 has now 4 lanes and is mostly in a tunnel. The A7 you now give us is - the A7 of 2010.
3. Don't tell me, that there is no space for putting in an exit to the Köhlbrand through the Harbour. Or to get to the city (you already have the exit Othmarschen). There is much space.
4. There is no IKEA at the A1. The IKEA is at the A7. And no, the exit to the A24 is in any way valid. I often wonder, if the developers of SCS at any time look at a real map of the areas they build.
I must really say, that I'm surprised, how BAD the new Hamburg is. Sorry, I'm not sooo interested in the surroundings - but accuracy and the version of 2018 was way better than what this "merger" gave us. And please don't tell me, "SCS has put much effort in it" - yes, they have rebuild a bit, but it seems they never looked at actual maps and Google Street Views, then they would have known, that that's NOT THE A7!
Oh and as I've now arrived the A215: No, Hamburg DON'T ENDS right after the Train bridge at Stellingen! And no, the A7 then don't become 2 lanes again. It stays three lanes up to the A215. You had it right in the former versions of ProMods. This is just shit and you should make the A7 part of Schleswig-Holstein red again, because with the merger you destroyed all the efforts you made with the Autobahn Rebuilding project around Hamburg. I don't care for some polished textures of SCS, when most of the rest is bad!
So, recommendations for the A7:
1. Make it four lanes up to the Bridge.
2. Make it three lanes up to the A215. That even deleted the unnecessary line merger at "Schnelsen"
3. Put in the A23 at the end of the four lane track above the tracks. It's just a normal one direction exit (you don't need to put in these crazy system, that you have to cross the B4, when you want to get from the A23 to the A7 north). There is space for a simple exit like with the A215, just to the left and then you could build the new Town of "Husum" or "Heide" at the north sea.
4. Put some houses around the A23 exit up till the Schleswig-Holstein sign. The area is heavily developed and not just fields.
5. Make Othmarschen a valid exit, that you can use to get to Hamburg City. It's completely normal for LKW to use that road (B431, B4) towards the Elbbrücken - where you could put in the T cross A1 - A255. You had it so right in the older version and it looked GREAT.
6. Instead of the stupid A1 region you could delete the IKEA and put a crossing there, where the A24 attaches to the A1 - and that also goes right into the city - as in real
I have made a little map what I would change, if I were a developer