Hi I’m new here. Could someone please give me a the way to form a country in browser, because I am still confused about the wiki’s directions, and I don’t want anyone to mess up the city er…interchange I created :) . Thanks!

Hi everybody. I opened up my country, Drevet (pronounced Druh-VAY or Drih-VAY), to be edited by anyone and everyone. I’ve started some roads and cities and whatnots in it, including Marshall, Burke, and Griffin. You all are welcome to expand on Drevet, but please, PLEASE keep in mind these guidelines.

1. Try to be consistent. E.g. Don’t take SR (Secondary Route) 63, or Ruby Road, and turn it into SR 1337, ‘I am Awesome and Better than all o yalls Blvd’ or whatever.
2. Don’t vandalize. Nuff said.
3. Me being the owner of Drevet, I can still make edits to the country AND rollback changes. I can and will have the final say.
4. Use common sense.
5. Have fun with this. Most important rule of all.

Thanks a bunch, ~Logan

Just now I went to the OGF site to view the results of some edits I did last night - and found the entire continent of Archanta flooded! Oh no!

I don’t see how I could have done this, since I didn’t edit the coastline at all. Yet I have to consider the possibility that I am somehow responsible. The reason I think that is that in the server version of the map, the entire coastline of my country, Orlenna is missing, while neighboring countries still have their coastlines.

However, I have no idea how that could have happened. I opened my local copy of the area in JOSM, which should be in sync with what I uploaded last night, and the coastline is still there.

On the other hand, the coastline of Commonia is also gone, so maybe someone’s editing in that region caused the problem?

Anyway, I’m sorry if I did this, and will be happy to help repair the damage (though I don’t yet know how).

PS: Shouldn’t Ingerish be one of the language options for this forum? ;-)

Update: actually, I guess the entire coastline of Archanta is gone. When I said the neighboring countries still have their coastlines, I was actually seeing the ocean-facing borders; I’ve defined a border extending beyond my coastline, while my immediate neighbors have not.

I’ve noticed the decent amount of OGF users whose first language is not English and have mentioned it. As English is my first language, I will gladly help anyone who needs correcting on their wiki pages, as Google Translate really doesn’t cut it in terms of quality. As the only other language I speak is French, I won’t be able to directly translate much for you, but if you are using Google Translate, or if you aren’t too confident with your English skills and want some mistakes corrected, feel free to send me a message!

Today, I added many details west of the city centre of Tarott (capital of the Republic of Kalm). Actually, I copied the whole city of Tarott from a vector file - and now I have to correct many things. E.g., in the vector file the ends of the streets were not connected as they have to be in OGF. And there was no possibility to add the labels automatically, as they were drawn as separate objects in the original file. Wow, that’s a hard work, adding al the labels, connecting the endpoints and so on. But step by step, the map will be completed.

Hm, thought I was done for the night, but apparently not.

I was just wondering: I would like to have shipping lines running from Orlenna to several other places, e.g. Khaiwoon, Villa Constitución, Phoenix, Elegantia … do I need to ask permission of the owners of those places to enter their harbors, or should I just go ahead and do it?

Well, I suppose I should introduce myself. I’ve been here about a month, but have been pretty quiet up to now.

I’ve been a map geek all my life, but for some reason have never really done anything with online mapping before. But here I am, and I’m greatly enjoying this little adventure.

I have established the country of Orlenna, at the western end of the southern part of Archanta continent. Come visit - the weather’s nice! Be sure to visit the legendary Citadel of Samman Wey (uh, well, I haven’t actually mapped that yet, but it will be there soon - and perhaps discerning individuals will be able to guess where it is supposed to be), and try some Brandeia wine - it’s the world’s finest (in our humble opinion ;-) )

By the way, it has occurred to me that it might be a good idea to have an OpenGeofiction tutorial. I know there is extensive documentation on the OpenStreetMap site, but I think that even though we use the same tools, there are some fundamental differences in the process: in particular, I don’t think people working on OSM do very much drawing, and certainly not over long distances - and the easy-to-use web-based editors reflect that. Whereas here we are creating whole cities and countries from scratch, and it’s really pretty awful trying to draw, say, a 500-mile railroad in iD or even Potlatch. So I think among other things, newcomers to OGF should be encouraged to learn JOSM as soon as possible, and a tutorial would help with that. I might be able to write such a document, though I don’t have very much free time just now.

Last but not least, I’m attempting to include the Orlendi flag below … I don’t have wiki access yet, so I put it on Imgur. However, it’s not showing up in the preview, so if you can’t see it, go to Orlendi flag image. Should we be able to include inline images? The Markdown mini-reference on this pages suggests it is possible.

… See full entry

The Gobras City Zoo is open. I have no idea what animals live in the OpenGeofiction world so feel free to add exhibits and such, to the zoo. Each continent has it’s own separate section.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/20.6856/86.7276

Does anyone know how to make the trams look like this example, like the Skyfari in the San Diego Zoo?

osm.org/#map=17/32.73531/-117.15096

http://www.jonathancrowe.net/2014/06/opengeofiction.php

this is from a few months ago. I was surprised to see a screenshot of my little fictional town of Valkaria. I found the comments interesting.

Is “Ingerish” supposed to be the same thing as English in the OpenGeoFiction World? I noticed on the wiki that a lot of countries use it as a regional language, and that on some language pages, when describing words in their own language they “translate” it into “Ingerish” instead of English, even though it really translates into English. I also noticed the actual country of Ingerland on the map, even though it hasn’t been mentioned on the wiki yet. Is “Ingerish” supposed to be the national language of this country, or is it supposed to be a humourous way of allowing English to be used as a language? (As it would be silly to add England as a country in OpenGeoFiction.) Or does this all just have to do with one’s own creativity?

This is cross-posted from the Talk page to my new article on Embassies in the Ardisphere on the wiki:

I decided to make the establishment of embassies collaborative. If you want to locate an embassy in Villa Constitución, please look through the list below and choose an unoccupied embassy (marked “Embassy for Sale”). You can link through to the map to see the location (some locations are better developed than others).

Once you choose your location, you have 2 choices: 1) contact me and I will rename the embassy lot for you and edit this wiki page; 2) you are allowed to go and edit the map within the lot boundaries yourself - it becomes your sovereign territory, after all. Just please be careful about surrounding neighborhoods. Also you may update this wiki page yourself. If you don’t like the locations available, you may send me a note requesting location (specify street intersection or metro/tram station), and tell me approximate lot size (square meters). I will try to accommodate your embassy’s needs.

It seems that people are not using the diaries as a source for discussion pages as much as before. Maybe we need to look into starting a forum similar to AARoads forum [ http://www.aaroads.com/forum/ ] to facilitate such development discussion in an area that is not appropriate for discussion in the wiki or in these diary pages. Simple Machines is a good forum engine.

I noticed the expected backup file (ogf_140919_1200.osm.pbf) did not appear. Is there a problem? I have been grabbing this file every day as a habit, since I began to do all my JOSM edits “offline” and using the “osmconvert” program to get my extracts (it’s much, much faster than downloading via connection in JOSM or Potlatch).

Speaking of backups, I wonder if backups are made of the wiki, too? If there aren’t, could we look into that? - people have invested a lot of energy and time in their wiki entries and it would be a good idea to keep backups. I’m not sure if this is the right forum for making that suggestion, but thought I would mention it.

(Update: nevermind. I see that updates are ocurring regularly, it was only one missed that happened to be the one I was looking for. )

Hi, I’ve just got my territory (UL203) and I wanted to make big lakes and modifie the coastline to make it more realistic but I don’t know how to make them, for the moment I can just make little bits because I’m using iD… So I downloaded JOSM because I read that it will be easier to make big and long things. I followed the FAQ advices for editing with JOSM on the map but when I select it in the editing options (iD/Potlatch/JOMS) a message appears : editing failed : make sure JOSM is loaded and the remote control option is enabled. I don’t really understand what does it mean.

Do I do something wrong ? Do you have easier ways to make big and long things for my country ?

How many rails would be suitable for a railway system about to enter a station? Is one railway way good enough as a rough draft to indicate a railway system, or should there be rows of rails and what are its limits? I’m trying to create my city through my mind and I like to know the accuracy of it.

There could be some questions I like to ask, granted that I’m new to territory creation, so bear with me.

Thank you,

JBStad1

Is there any way to make long stuff like highways, coastlines and lakes faster? All I’ve been doing is continuously dragging a piece of coastline for a very long time to make an inlet, and it still hasn’t gone very far (well, in terms of how big of an inlet I’m making). I’m kind of frustrated with how far you [can’t] zoom out. Is there another way to do this, or is this the only way?

-Asparagus

 Street Grid

The entire city including Streets and avenues have been redeveloped to a mile grid system with 16 blocks per mile (330 feet by 330 feet) (bacically a 1.6km X 1.6km grid with approx. 100m X 100m blocks). Development of the city will continue out towards the airport and along the Gulf Shore. adherence to the grid can be looser the further away from the city center that the city grows.

Major Districts

In addition a new seaport was built to the east of the city, along with a major industrial area just to the west of the seaport. Railways are to be connected to the rest of the network.

Another Industrial District will be built near the airport and also to the west of the Downtown area.

The capitol area has also been constructed

A major commercial district ( Mall, Shopping centers, Retail Big Box) is planned for the area immediately adjacent to Lawrence Parkway and A-602

Airports

The airport has been appropriately sized down to a smaller footprint and 5 runways instead of 6 but maintains the overall layout of the original airport. It is still quite a bit oversized comparative to the size of the city it serves but could be considered a major hub airport for Northern Gobrassanya.

 Motorways and Major Highways

Motorways have also been overhauled as well… A-2 serves the Gulf Front and Downtown.

A-602 (loop - partially completed) connects to the middle of the city.

A-35 was extended northward

A-135 (Airport Link)

A proposal for a new motorway to the weest of the city s also in the works but will be added as development occurs to the west. Recommend using a NP-XX designation for any additional motorways

 Please help

Assistance is needed in further development of the city If anyone wants to add new neighborhoods. Especially south of A-602 and to the East of A-35 and in developing a mass transit system

 Wish List

Development of the shore. Including a major amusement pier concept near Downtown. Possibly including a boardwalk.

I’m here because I have a ‘vision’ that I wish to realise, but I’m finding it very hard to translate that within my head graphically onto the map, and in words/pictures into the Wiki!

I’m very slowly learning ‘from scratch’, but beyond adding some bits of rivers, a large lake, some administrative boundaries, a few islands & coastal edits, plus placing a few-dozen cities/country-names (many which seem now to be ‘lost’) ~ I’ve not achieved anything like what I’ve wanted!

What, how, from whom may I get assistance?

Angus

One year ago today, Opengeofiction was opened as a public website, starting with this post on Johannes’ Urbangeofiction website (awesome site BTW, definitely check it out if you don’t know it yet).

Let me just say a big thank you to all members who have helped to make this such a great project with their contributions. Please keep up the good work! I really hope that many other productive years will follow.

Thilo

Looks like something’s changed with the standard map style - airport runways and taxiways are not being shown?