Since my return to OGF I have been slowly expanding my countries (Řots and Wyster).

In Řots the most ‘developed’ areas are the capital (Nekkar) and the southwestern part of the Bořāzint province: adding nature, improving some infrastructural features, adding street names, etc. More often I look to the Open Streetmap for inspiration and comparison to get things the right size or to make them look more natural; there is still much that can be improved. In Nekkar I started mapping the city centre in more detail (adding restaurants etc.).

In Wyster the most mapped area is the county of Cervirc, which is now completely covered by mapping elements, although much more features can still be added. The city centre of the capital Hreawirc is slowly expanding as well; I developed the Wystrian zip code system, so embassies can now be added to the area (I hate it when embassy addresses are left incomplete). And there is Wystrian money now: the 100 Craem note has perhaps turned out slightly more flamboyantly pink than I intended, but I’m going to leave it like that for the time being, awaiting other bank notes with which it can be contrasted.

(And, less urgently, I’m looking for texts to translate into Řotsnan and/or Wystrian in order to keep developing these languages (the grammar descriptions are more or less finished, but vocabulary needs to be added and translating texts helps me to see if there should be features that I forgot or overlooked), so if you want you can send me something literary, funny, serious, short, long, financial, technical, poetical, gastronomical, intelligent, dumb, religious, vague, specific, scandalous, instructive, prohibitive, informative, etc. as long as it is OGF related (via PM) and I will try to provide a translation.)

Hello fellow mappers!

I haven’t seen any Mapper’s Challenges from Luciano lately, so I decided to go on my own personal challenge to map my cities across Belphenia.

For the past month, I started practicing mapping areas in the cities of Some, Maressa Prefecture and in the city core of Sayanahi, Seralia Prefecture throughout June, and I was able to add a few shops and other details in an attempt to practice mapping in Belphenian cities in high detail. Here are the areas I attempted to map in high detail:

I started mapping in Sayanahi as an electric and anime district, and added as many shops as possible. I am also planning to add more details to the city in the future. Sayanahi’s electric district

Then I started mapping a new city called Some, in Maressa Prefecture and did my attempts to map in high detail. A new section of Nansei Highland Forest Road (Ryukosha State Highway 4) was under construction since October of last year, and the new section is set to open sometime at the end of this month. Some, Maressa Prefecture

I was able to use JOSM and started using as many details like adding shops, houses, buildings, and other places in high detail. But as my cities starting to get more and more detailed, I started to lose performance to slowdowns and lag when I try to map in detailed areas in JOSM on my desktop computer. It’s because I have an 8-year-old desktop computer from the year 2009 and nowadays, my desktop PC cannot handle high details while mapping in JOSM anymore, and I even had to use the Wireframe mode to continue mapping in dense areas until my computer started to run slow on me again, even in Wireframe mode. When I map cities in low detail (like a small, undetailed town, an expressway, etc.), my computer runs fine with those, but I am currently planning to replace my aging desktop computer with a newer, faster, and modern computer so I can continue mapping areas in high detail without any performance issues with JOSM.

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I was wondering what nations are currently available to build FREELY in for new users, If you have a response please reply to me. Thank you, a fellow mapper.

Hello! So, in UL015 where I have been working I sort of have a conflict with culture. Mostly I’d like something slightly american influenced so I can feel at home, but i’d also like room for other cultures. I’ve been thinking about a history of Zionist-ish settlements in the area, but I’m not sure how to fit that in to a temperate climate in eastern Ulethea. Is it possible to combine both concepts into one? Also, I’m thinking about making the country collaborative. I think it would make things easier and way more fun. Though first I’ll slap a name on it. Would anybody be interested in a project like that?

I have made a new city, I was looking for something to edit, I saw Heiber Falls, I sorta liked the name, so I kept it, right now, Heiber Falls is a small town undergoing its 3rd expansion. Heiber Falls is located close to Perm Adai, on the edge of the Kingdom of Pretany, on an edge of the S16 and P12.

Is Archanta getting flooded?

Maybe it is better to call Noah to prepare the Ark :P

Does someone knows what is hapening? (In my PC, zoom level 9 is already under water)

Best regards,

• Yuri Yhlmacof (Ilídio)

I have made a post on my bliki regarding the rules for granting territory to new users. I think it is worth a discussion but probably best to keep it on the wiki to make it easier to follow:

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Myrcia/Bliki/2017/07/14

I have created a new city called Ore City. It is located near Ombo in Commonia. It’s the Island in the River

So my plans for York (Fergus until the map updates) is to have it originally as a city state that was founded around 1300 to 1500 and there was economic boom around the Renaissance era that saw the city expand rapidly with a population of about 200,000 people. However when cars became available and streets were being converted to suit cars and new roads built for cars York which expanded to occupy (most?) of Kanea (Araluen for the time being) they entered a civil war and a depression. So the economy was in a depression until the 1970s. That’s when the city decided to keep the old roads except for major streets where cars could drive on, the outside of the old city developed to have buildings and modern houses with roads and the road ring along with the other motorways were funded by foreign nations in the 1960s but were completed in the 1980s.

This project is to hopefully have something unique by having little roads in the city and the rest are simply only for people walking or biking but keep the realism at the same time with the help of the city’s history. Also, my country is… let’s not say it but I want my country to be a well-mapped country that isn’t one of the worst mapped countries AHEM AHEM RIGHT NOW http://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/40.4647/131.7343 COUGH Feedback and HARSH CRITICISM is greatly appreciated.

• Egg

I’ve recently added a new city, but there’s a old residential road left by the previous owner of my country. i’ve have delete it a long time ago, but IT’S STILL THERE on the map! i cant map my new city with that road in the way. Its driving me crazy! Any tips?

EDIT: Resolved! Whoever deleted the road, thank you very much!

OK, so does anyone know how to find the length of a line?

Hello! I’m having a blast with my new hobby here at OGF. I’m doing something a bit different, but in the end the mapping in OGF and wiki work ends up the same. It’s a marriage of my long-term hobby and the new one here at OGF, so I just wanted to share the side you wouldn’t have seen without sharing it here.

Because it also uses real-life scale for all its features, I’m using the game Cities Skylines to hand-map out each city - all its roads, buildings, features etc, and then use an overhead screenshot as a JOSM background image to map into OGF step by step. That ensures I’ve got the scale right, but it more importantly allows me to first design, edit, rethink (and demolish and build all over again), all the parts of the city and landscape, and then verify it all functions like a normal city before mapping it into OGF.

I’m doing it in stages, because I want to do both OGF mapping and Cities at the same time. Here are some shots of the first stage of the city in 3D and the first mapping traced back into OGF. I’ve even modeled the Caladean flag into the game, because why not?

http://imgur.com/a/lqM6F

In case anyone wants to know how I did this, in short it was this: - Took an image of an 18km x 18km section of my capital city’s intended location in OGF - Used an overlay mod in Cities to project a semitransparent png of that 18km x 18km section from OGF - Used map editor to create the terrain - Build the first neighborhoods of the city - Screenshot from overhead and used that as a JOSM background - Rinse, wash and repeat for each expansion of the area I’m mapping

I love creating maps like this all by hand, every curve of every road, so to have two places where I have that much mapping freedom is awesome.

Link to capital’s mapped first stages: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/-17.3510/132.9545

Hey All, I don’t know if anybody else is having trouble with the wiki but it seems to be down for me. I don’t know if it’s local but I’d know it’s not if everybody else has a problem…as it goes :P I’ve got an error saying this exactly;

“Internal error - OpenGeoFiction(wiki?)

[75db9a2ba08f7e2051f974de] 2017-07-13 11:47:00: Fatal exception of type “DBUnexpectedError” “

So yeah, is anybody else having trouble or know if it’s local to me? I can be patient but I was editing an article, so I am not.

Thanks in advance

• Aces California

Incident

I was making an airport, and I saved my work, somehow the Airport wont show up, and little parts of it will show.

Any help on this? (Sorry for such a short post)

Hi All I am truly sorry for distrupting the user diaries with short posts every now and then. I have brought it down to this: Either have a seperate website to post my updates to or you’d just view my profile for it, I am not sure about how I can cut down on the posts, maybe you can tell me what I should do. Should I put my progress on a site or in a video, or just make my profile a place to see what i’ve done.

I continue to be intrigued by the direction finder for roads. Following on from the idea of an OGF Interrail card, would it be possible to query directions for rail travel?

I’ve decided to use up the empty space and make towns, I have created Windham in one of the enclaves. I’m thinking it would have about 100,000 people living there, some old history of Planoria owning some of the land surrounding the enclaves, and some kind of city square to remember who protected Windham and Alligator Pond from enemy forces. http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-47.00169/65.51532 Second one in location

Hello, fellow mappers.

I’m writing this to warn you that I’ve got new plans for Vinnmark.

First of all, I’m creating a big bay just like Lake IJsselmeer in the Netherlands, which will include an island in it.

I’m also changing the frontiers as I don’t like how Vinnmark looks on the map, so I’ll cut off some parts of it and keep them as ‘unclaimed territories’ so other neighbouring countries can claim them as part of their territory or either someone wants to make them his own country.

Lake Laika is going to be swollen by the sea so that the future city of Odense (which will be similar to Rotterdam in its structure) will be connected to the sea.

Because i decided to put my country on hold for up to 1 1/2 months until i can get a computer strong enough to run JOSM.

P.S. I will still participate in other stuff.

I’ve decided to officially fix my blue country territory and take a break from my official territory. This comes after a message from admin and a comment on my ‘Area for Sale’ Joke: Area For Sale! (Just A Joke). I hope that my blue country neighbors will be satisfied with me fixing it.

P.S Thanks wangi for inspiring me to do it. I will make it as realistic as possible.