Diary Entries in English

Recent diary entries

Posted by deltanz on 16 February 2017 in English.

The recent discussion on martinum4’s diary entry regarding whether the rules of OSM should be used on OGF with the same emphasis and the fact that a lot of things done by me in my country, Neo Delta, for almost 2 years now, have never followed those rules, kept me thinking about my place in this community. I am an international relations analyst and, as much as I’m interested in urban geography, urban planning and projects such as OSM, I’m not familiar with any of those areas. I’d love to have time to study and explore those fields, but, unfortunately, I’m unable to do so at the moment. I know opinions regarding this issue vary, as Luciano and other users commented, but I can’t stop thinking about the fact that I lack the basic knowledge that is needed to be a member of OGF and that really bothers me. As joschi81 mentioned, this might not be the best place for those not interested in the GIS aspect of OSM/OGF. I even struggle to work with simple aspects, such as using relations and mapping through JOSM. So, as far as I’m concern, the bottom line is: I don’t want to be a member whose work is seen as problematic. The actual technology of mapping is not my main focus on OGF and I’m much more interested in the fictional politics, international and cultural affairs, and human involvement of the members and their fictional countries. Should I be editing a country on OGF?

Location: Diploquar, Malojdeh, Capital, Capma, Neo Delta
Posted by isleño on 15 February 2017 in English.
  • World’s biggest…
  • World’s largest…
  • World’s highest…
  • World’s tallest…
  • World’s fastest…
  • World’s most famous…
  • World’s most popular…
  • World’s most important…
  • World’s most advanced…

Instead of using ’superlatives’ like this to describe your country (or something in it) as being better than everyone else, please use language like:

  • one of the world’s biggest…
  • one of the largest… in the world
  • among the world’s highest…
  • some of the world’s tallest…
  • very fast
  • world famous
  • extremely popular
  • highly important
  • considerably advanced

Same goes for “best on the continent,” region, etc. Thanks for understanding.

Hi mappers!

It has been a long time since my last (and only -_-‘ eheh) diary.

Durign the last three months, in a realy slow pace (because I got into University this year), I worked in three main projects: Nelyto City, Ordyo/Puntick Metropolis and Yuris International Relations.

Nelyto City project is now paused. Nelyto was basicly my experience site. It was my first city, and it was created only with iD, so it has some problems with scale and coastline detailing that I will fix in the future.

Puntick and Ordyo: History

Now, I started using JOSM and Puntick is the “construction site”… Puntick is the old sister of the Yurin capital, Ordyo City. It is located in Girotera Peninsula facing Hallgarve Sea and the Narrow of Ickarion. The first written record wich refers Puntick goes back to 750 a.C. and since then the region has been inhabited. It was the capital city of the region where Yuris is nowadays (in the 14th and 15th centuries, the entire region was occupied by a kingdom called Hallgarv) from 1333 to 1462.

Ordyo City, in the other hand, is one of the most recent world cities. Its construction was proposed by Lenz B. Albano Government in 1957 and was approved in referendum. The idea behind the Ordyo City construction was to “rebuild” the old city of Nodoyeh, the first capital of Yuris that was destroyed in the 14th century by the Hallgarv Kingdom. Since its destruction there were several attempts to rebuild Nodoyeh. However, the ideia of restoring the old Yuris Kingdom glory remained in people’s mind. In the 20th century, when utopian/distopian cultural movements appeared in Yuris, the idea became even more desired. When Puntick started to have urban and social problems, it became imperative to find a solution. President Lenz B. Albano sugested the construction of Ordyo in 1957, the “dream became true” in 1962 and a new capital city was born.

(I will develop the history of this region further in an upcoming wiki article)

Mapping

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Posted by Friedrich Kirchen on 13 February 2017 in English.

I’ve created Art Kanal page on the wiki. I was looking for international art fair in OGF and nothing appears. So here it is! I want Kirchenburg to be a culture and art meetpoint in Western Uletha.

Each year, it takes place in Kirchenburg, with art galleries of all around the world. The thing is…Anyone has an art gallery interested in having an stand or national pabillion in Art Kanal?

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Art_Kanal

Posted by Kai on 12 February 2017 in English.

The paradise of Kuaku City in Lonowai District is now a perfectly functioning city! http://www.opengeofiction.net/edit#map=17/13.76199/85.19352

The city is perfectly habitable with tourist attractions including a zoo and a ski/snowboard hill, an archipelago full of cottages, 4 Public Schools, 3 Middle Schools, 3 High schools, a university, lakes, conservation areas and much more!

Anyone is welcome to help me :)

Location: Marina Beach, Ohimeno, Lonowai (Gobrassanya)
Posted by Black Baron on 12 February 2017 in English.

After months of work the region of Edetanea begins to resemble the idea that I have in mind. In the coming weeks I will map more details of the small towns, especially Pujo and Maternea, since Pucena is practically concluded. When I finish these regions, I have doubts as to whether undertake the task of detailing the maritime neighborhoods of Edetanea or developing the region of Cubenea del Lago and Iliana.

Between May and June I will finish detailing the Sierra Espadanea and I will create the Sierra de Cuerna, as well as the rivers that depend on these. With this, I will have completed the physical structure of the Edetanea Region. According to this rhythm of work I calculate that I can finish Castilea Archanta with a level of detail according to the region that I am currently completing in the year 2073 …

http://www.opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-16.3910/129.9728

Posted by bhj867 on 12 February 2017 in English.

I have been working on the Midistland Canal today. I would like for it to be a canal similar to Panama. Midistland is in a strategic part of Uletha and I would like to emphasize that with a large shipping canal through the country. There is already a large lake in place in Midistland to support such a canal. I would like to add service roads, rails, locks, and small and large cities to support the canal. Everyone is welcome to get involved.

The Canal

Posted by martinum4 on 11 February 2017 in English.

Hey everyone, after visiting some countrys i’ve noticed that a lot of people misuse tags to make it look better rendered. The most common one i’ve encountered was the misuse of the name tag (in general), but in particular railway-related. Writing the name of the lines served at a specific station in there makes it a lot harder to change lines, also that’s not really what that tag is intended for.

I would love it if more people would use OSM as an example and start using relations for lines, IMHO it’s a lot easier, but maybe someone needs to copy the OSM Transport layer for that to happen, as we know that the mapping features are only used if they are rendered somewhere…

On a related note, start using railway=halt more, here in Germany every railway=station that doesn’t have a switch is considered an halt, in OGF one should check placed stations if railway=halt wouldn’t be a better fitting alternative.

Posted by Kai on 10 February 2017 in English.

Hello Everyone!

Feel free to use Nikko Towers in your city! The towers usually have an untagged line leading to a circular parking lot surrounded by towers which are surrounded by forests or parks. Nikko Towers are currently in the cities of…

New Meziyah of Commonia http://www.opengeofiction.net/edit#map=18/11.57961/157.65781

New Kordinal of Commonia http://www.opengeofiction.net/edit#map=17/11.57929/157.65805

New Halbert of Omniville (Yes I now know I wasn’t supposed to build there) http://www.opengeofiction.net/edit#map=17/4.45829/-5.98773

Kuaku City of Lonowi District http://www.opengeofiction.net/edit#map=17/13.76199/85.19352

and coming soon to…

New Kainiza http://www.opengeofiction.net/edit#map=13/38.3521/106.1977

and

Yellowville http://www.opengeofiction.net/edit#map=13/38.8019/105.9762

Please contact me when you put up your Nikko Towers so I can make the wiki page (Please, please, please DO NOT make a wiki page for Nikko Towers, I own it.)

Thanks Everyone :) ~Kai

Location: 月港镇, 流月县, 央湖陪都府, Fenghai Province, 天南道, Huaxia
Posted by Litvania on 10 February 2017 in English.

After @eklas ‘ diary entry, i created a page titled “Slevic” for all the Slevic languages to put on as a family. There is just one problem. The name Syrillangan (i am repeating eklas’ words) does not sound normal to the Syrillangan person. However, the other names propsed sound too similar to “Slavs” or “Slavic”.

There is a problem in this because we need to come up with a name that makes sense, isnt biased on Russian spelling, and sounds normal to the Syrillangan person.

Please i would just like to say:

There are multiple linguistic, cultural, religious and mentality differences between West and East Slavs, please do NEVER CATEGORIZE US AS ONE BIG GROUP OF THE SAME PEOPLE. It annoys the hell out of me, and i wanted to emphasize that we are not the same as the Russians. We have different ways of doing things. Including spelling.

Here we can discuss this issue:

Posted by Friedrich Kirchen on 9 February 2017 in English.

I was working in Kirchenburg’s city branding. I think what i love the most about OGF is the oportunity to design for so many different fictional brands and business. I really enjoy it, more than mapping i think haha. I’m thinking about placing a design studio in Kirchenburg which is the one that makes all the design stuff in Welstand-Westrijk. Thinking about calling it Plotter studio. Is not said in Kirchenburg’s wiki page, but the otter is the symbol of the city. It’s on the coat of arms of the city, and the citizens are commonly known as otters. So Plotter studio can be a great name. They’ve made the Brutto supermarket logo too haha.

Here is the Kirchenburg’s city branding use http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Usologo.jpg

The colors are the the Kirchenburg’s flag colors. Black,blue,white + yellow (Welstand province color)

What yout think about it? I’m open to work for anyone in OGF designing stuff for their brands, cities, countries, tourism branding, sport, etc

:)

Happy mapping!