Dino the Dinosore found out in http://forum.freeciv.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=92137&p=104780#p104776 that map is revealed only for startunits, not at all for a startcity. With any ruleset one sees only what the city itself reveals - in rulesets with vision_reveal_tiles = FALSE that's nothing at all.
Dino the Dinosore found out in http://forum.freeciv.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=92137&p=104780#p104776 that map is revealed only for startunits, not at all for a startcity. With any ruleset one sees only what the city itself reveals - in rulesets with vision_reveal_tiles = FALSE that's nothing at all.