Firstly I gave Flyht Myrcia (Myrcia’s major airline) a brand refresh last night and designed a nice boarding pass (aided by the fictional OGF universe where airlines aren’t stuck with 20 year old printers!). So please take a look and let me know what you think.

Flyht Myrcia on OGF Wiki

If your country is in Uletha or Tarephia then I’d like to establish an air route from Dunwic Flyhthæfen International. Just reply to this post or send me a message. Also happy for reciprocal flights or codeshare agreements to be established with your airlines.

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This post is ten months late.

On New Years of 2016, I received my first bit of territory on OpenGeofiction. I started work, but I quickly hit a roadblock. I was having more ideas for my territory than I could map while simultaneously having no “vision” as to how the country was going to be like at the end and progress was going really slowly because I wanted to use JOSM (two hours wasted raging at the relation editor, or lack thereof, on New Years!). Couple that with an absolute lack of neighbors and the fact I was using an invented language and you pretty much have a recipe for disaster (at least I didn’t break Antarephia’s coastline). This meant that after just one month of editing I decided to look for a better place to place my country in and after searching a bit I found my spot - not too far from my old location, actually - on an island off the coast of southern Tarephia, which is where (aside from occasional forays into Gobrassanya) my edits have been concentrated ever since. With the little space I had, I had to think very creatively to put everything where it needs to be.

After a few weeks I got a neighbor, refried sushi, who eventually proposed a short history of the region that our nations (and a bunch of others’) are located in. Which means that I can now extend this history to the present day, giving me more hints to how my country was going to be like.

Breaking my arm also helped. No, I am not joking.

Abrilleron is a former Ingerish colony which was established relatively early. The Ingerish left the colony alone in the early 18th century hover. Abrilleron then promptly joined the Ardoin Trade League (see above). Following its collapse in 1880, Abrilleron descended into a civil war that ended in 1905, marking the day of the creation of today’s republic.

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I’m very new to this community but find this very enjoyable and the amount of work put into the maps are incredible. But I have no idea how to name cities. If anyone can help it would be very appreciated

It’s been around a month since I started mapping my country, and I am pleased with some sections and also have a few questions.

My first, and most urgent, question is, why can I only download tiny sections? When I try to download anything onto JOSM larger than 5*5km, it returns an error ‘IO exception… Details (untranslate): read timed out’. It’s really making mapping impossible because it also happens just before uploading when it is updating the map segments.

My second question is, how do I prevent other people editing my country? Another person is adding roads in the corner of my country, near New Denton, which, while on its own is fine, is moving my main motorways around.

My third question is, how do you prevent conflicts occurring in JOSM? This is probably related to the two above problems but still confuses me a lot. Often, it says there are conflicts in the administrative Region ‘Ovaria’ (the old name) which I really don’t understand.

The final (I think…) question is, how do you get public transport routes to appear on the map? In the September challenge, the hyperlink links to a specific route. I have made a public transport legacy route relation, how do I select it in opengeofiction?

Other than that, making steady progress, and would welcome any feedback.

I’m getting an error loading the OGF layer on JOSM. Is there a problem with the server?

I’m kinda proud of my little Rock Creek falls area. It’s based on both Mathessien State Park near Utica, Illinois and areas of Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest.

It appears that the world flooded overnight.

BUILD AN ARK!

I am in the process of rebuilding Drevet. No outside editors will be allowed until otherwise noted.

Thank you for your understanding.

Hello chaps,

Is their a list of multinational food and other business chains that has been put together for OGF? I’m thinking we need the following:

• Burger and other fast food chains (i.e KFC, McDonalds)
• Oil companies (BP, Shell, etc)
• Parcel and couriers (UPS, FedEx)
• err…. other stuff?!

Opengeofiction is now running its own instance of the Overpass API.

The URL for queries against the API is:
http://osm3s.opengeofiction.net/api/

Or you might check out the web interface at
http://osm3s.opengeofiction.net/overpass-turbo/

Learn more about the Overpass API:
osm.wiki/Overpass_API
osm.wiki/Overpass_API/Language_Guide
osm.wiki/Overpass_API/XAPI_Compatibility_Layer

Please note that the availability of the API must be regarded as somewhat experimental. At the moment it looks like the new tile server has enough capacity to run this additional service. But if it turns out to have a negative impact on the tile generation performance, it’ll have to be switched off.

One month has passed away from that moment when I claimed my territory and started to edit it. Unfortunately, I do not have so many time I’d like to have for editing it, so my progress is quite slow. However, I’d like to show to OGF community the capital of Semeria, the city of Kroün. I have created the main roads, university, hospital, parks, some government features. So I want to know what are you thinking of it.

Thermo_nuclear.

Evening Everyone!

I created a rough map of possible plates and faults in our world.

http://s271.photobucket.com/user/PColumbus611/media/OGF%20Faultlines_zpshs1j7lnb.jpg.html (I tried to add this as an image, but am unable to)

I have not studied geology. I drew these lines based on the shapes of the landmasses. If anyone wants to clean this up or improve on this idea, feel free! I named the plates based on the continents. Some of the smaller plates are named after a randomly chosen country.

The arrows represent the possible movement of the plates.

They are:

.1 The Oranotic Plate

.2 The Pela-Kartum Plate

.3 The North Ereva Plate

.4 The Ereva-Hesperic Plate

.5 The West Uletha Plate

.6 The East Uletha Plate

.7 The Tarephene Plate

.8 The Ataraxie Plate

.9 The North Archanic Plate

.10 The Dandria Plate

.11 The Antarephene Plate

.12 The South Archanic Plate

How do I attach an image to my diary entry? I can’t figure out how to do it. Thanks!

Inspired by Luciano’s Mapper’s Challenge #6 - September, 2016 - GETTING AROUND, I started creating the metro line (U-Bahn) relations for the city of Tarott. Well… I started, at least.

Mapping since more than two weeks now, up to a few hours almost every day, I only managed to finish the first part of U1 (the oldest metro line of Tarott, regarding the inner city section, and part of the small-profile network, details here). So I’m presenting an “intermediate” result to you now. Here’s how far I got:

Inbound southern part of U1 and outbound direction of the same section.

Why did I only get this far? The explanation is quite simple: Tarott, as some of you know, was imported from a “non-GIS” vector file right after the birth of OGF, a vector file that had been drawn only for graphical purposes in Adobe Illustrator. You can still see the annoying results in the largest part of Tarott. Along with drawing the metro line details, I decided to add the details (almost eveything important except residential buiildings) within the surrounding areas. This - I must admit - takes much longer than I thought. (Actually, it’s a pity that I had only drawn Tarott outside OGF in this “unprofessional” way since 2010 before OGF started, now I have to do all the work once again…)

But have a look at the result, compare the areas next to the mentioned part of the metro line to other regions and you see where I’m heading (at the speed of a tired snail). And see the Hattneypark details I added today instead of focusing on a continued U1 relation. :)

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Hello everyone,

I would like to remind you of some international projects on OGF! It would be great if more countries could participate in them.

The World Park

A project I started in July this year, inspired by the The World archipelago in Dubai. I wanted to create something like this in OGF, but then in a park. You can see it here. More information can be found in the first diary I posted about this. I would really like to have more countries having a plot here, so you can request your one on the wiki talk page of the park

World Series Basketball

The World Series Basketball is a tournament in which 6 nations participate. These are all one of the best of the world. I need only 2 more countries for the tournament, but this should be countries that are good in basketball.

2016 Summer Geolympiad

I created two pages about the 2016 Summer Geolympiad (our olympic games). These are List of archers at the 2016 Summer Geolympiad and List of 2016 Summer Geolympiad broadcasters. If you would like to add your archers and/or broadcasters, that would be very nice :)

2018 International Foosball World Cup

User Ernestpcosby has set foosball on the map in OGF, and in 2018 he wants to organize the IFWC (International Foosball World Cup) outside Freedemia for the first time. Other countries can bid for that and only one has did so far. It would be great to see other bids of course.

Well, I think that were all the things I wanted to mention :p I hope you’ve found some projects you like to collaborate in.

The City of Malaperis is situated at the mouth of the Gottlieb river. In the 1700’s early explorers established Fort Malaperis at the mouth of the river. The city built up around the fort over time. In the mid 1900’s a group of educators from around the world establisehd a university in the northern section of town.

The city also sits at the feet of the Dayton Hills. Local officials were looking for a bypass of the city to the north, but building it north of the Dayton Hills would be too far for any benefit, but the location of the Baer Creek runs through the only good location closer in. Portions of Q-1 have been upgraded to a motorway through this area, but ongoing environmental concerns have stalled any further upgrades.

There used to be a bridge over the Gottlieb river on Colin Way. This bridge was demolished due to obsolescence.

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I’ve decided on a numbering system for the roads in Quebertia, will start implemnting it in the near future. Every route will start with a Q. Odd numbered routes go east-west, with the lowest numbers starting in the west , and even numbered routes will go north-south with lowest numbered routes in the south.

A bypass will get a -A at the end

A spur will get a -B at the end

The mainline routes will have no additional lettering unless route is a toll, in that case a -T will be appended to the end

For example, if a business spur for Q-1 is ever created, it will be called Q-1-B

This is the numbering of the national routes. I include the Q in the route number to distinguish national routes from local routes.

I’m going to implement this system soon. Any thoughts would be welcome

Hi there. I’ve been making some little edits around Austraĉerfubo, and the most notorious one is this: Airport name is Eksilita Kompasso Internacia Flughaveno (Compass of the Exiles International Airport) and it is compossed by two runways of 3km, 3 main terminals, comunication with the raiway within a station and a special area for cargo flights, with another two runways of 1.5 km. The main goal of this airport is to become one of the most important (or the most important) airport in South Harda Archipelago and the main one for the aereal comunications in Aŭstrasuno Tero.

I’m open to feedback, and I really need it. Also, I’m looking for a guide of how to map metro, massive transport, and public transport routes, anyone out there?

Evening everyone,

After some advice from fellow mappers. I decided to change Vienna’s name.

Vienna is now Wustesonne (meaning ‘Desert Sun’)

Will I be able to just change the country’s name on the Wiki, or will there need to be a new page?

For some reasons zoom levels 17, 18 and 19, the map does not update on standard layer. Zoom 17 has received 1 update in the past 24 hours but zoom 18 and 19 have not been updated at all. So far, I have tried 4 devices and they all have the same problem. The affected area is down below. Zoom out and you will see the difference.

Does anyone see/not see my problem on the map or have the problem yourself?

Things I know about the problem:

1. It is not a problem caused by my computer. I have tried on multiple devices to the same effect.
2. It only happens in ‘standard’ layer. The other layers are fine and display map data properly. The editors in Potlatch and ID show the correct data as well. For some reason, the ‘standard’ map preview on the map layers menu displays the updated data.
3. It is a recent occurrence, because edits in the last 24 hours are not displayed, whereas edits I have done before that have shown up.
4. It is a local occurrence. I mapped a road in Commonia today and it showed up on all zoom levels.
5. It is possibly a one off issue. I have mapped nearby and all updates have shown.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/52.05349/128.99490

Thanks,

Yuanls

Hi, welcome on my diary! Surricy is 40% mapped (a country is never finished, but I speak of the result I want to get).

• Canton of Amonters: 95% completed - WiP:
  • Amonters amusement park (golf courses, stadium)
• Canton of La Ferté: 85% completed - WiP:
  • Amonters-La Ferté International Airport
  • La Ferté racetrack
• Canton of Dalètre - 70% completed - WiP:
  • New towns
• Canton of Ricie: 10% completed - WiP:
  • Nature
  • New towns
  • Remake boundaries
• Canton of Sil-Maritime: 10% completed - WiP:
  • Remake boundaries
  • Sil international port
• Canton of Sil-Monts: 5% completed - WiP:
  • Remake boundaries
• Canton of Valder: 5% completed - WiP:
  • Remake boundaries