I just looked over the maps in the first post and I can't see myself playing this game. The scale just turns me off completely.
I know this sense of scale is your goal, but the while maps look impressive at first glance, they really aren't.
Pallet town is so bare, plain and un-interesting.
Route 1 seemed okay when I first looked at it but the little one tile size patches of the paths are actually annoying me looking at them now.
Route 2 has a few tree errors that I'm sure have been fixed but there is so much wasted space on this map and way to big.
Route 3 is worse then pallet town and I would not be able to tell where I am in the games resolution.
These maps look impressive as images, but in gameplay they will be a nightmare. WAAAAY to big and as I said above, will be a nightmare to tell where you are unless you are looking at the map file as an image. If you had some crazy form of transport (a bloody jetpack would be needed- a bike wouldn't do ha) that can be accessed at the press of a button it might be a bit bearable.
I can only see fan boys of you and the game to play this, but I can see most users not wasting time with it. You would need so much free time to invest to get into this game and I think that judging by the 4 maps I've seen, that's asking for too much free time of the general audience here.