The layout of Ishgard does not make 3 dimensional sense

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I can't be the only one who is utterly confused at how mismatched Foundation and The Pillars are.

The maps show the outlines for the lower city and upper city, much like all the other map layouts for cities. However, for Limsa Lominsa and Ul'Dah, the maps align perfectly and structures are visible when looking or down in a way that makes logical three dimensional sense. (They had to, when 1.0 existed, since it was all one zone.)

I can't make heads or tails of the Ishgard map. At first I thought that it must just be a difference of levels - that The Pillars really has like 4-5 stories taller than Foundation. But I've spent the last hour eyeballing the two zones, and I've come to the conclusion that it just isn't the case. The two maps are utterly incompatible as given.

Some places that are wrong:
- The chocobo stables and Skysteel Manufactury should be visible below The Jeweled Crozier. They are not.
- The airship landing ought to be visible from The Brume, but there is nothing there.
- The Congregation of Our Knights Most Heavenly is clearly the tallest structure jutting up from Foundation, but there is no similar tower visible from the Pillars map.

Other structures that are visible from The Pillars are completely absent from Foundation.

Conclusion: The maps do not actually overlap as presented. There is a gap of several stories and a couple hundred yalms, really.

Either that, or the zone design team said "meh who will ever notice" and didn't even try, thus leaving slightly obsessed people like me pulling their hair out trying to make sense of it.