Hey there fellow mappers!

I have a love-hate relationship with mapping buildings. On one hand, I love the feeling of scale and detail they give to a map. They are the first step in creating a city that is more than just a network of roads and rails. So what’s to hate about them? Well, I’m no architect (surprise), and especially when it comes to representative buildings I continuously fail to produce anything that leaves me with a sense of satisfaction.

Currently I’m having trouble with the heart of the Kojolese government, the Gankakuchō so Hyosilwe. I redid that area recently, and now I’m struggeling to come up with a new building. To be fair, I’ve done everything to make the situation as complicated as possibly, and I wouldn’t want to swap roles with the architects in 1990’s Pyingshum.

I’ll try to summarise the basic idea in a few key points:

1. administration around the chancellor had been growing for decades, need for an adequate office space that could also be used for representative purposes became more and more urgent, however unfulfilled.

2. A fire in 1984 (read more) puts a large area in central Pyingshum to ashes, killing hundreds of people. The event is a major disaster for the government of that time conspiracy theories have their heyday.

3. The area is to be rebuilt, with a new Chancellery facing the Jōbun so Gúwan place. However, the building needs to be built in a way that it doesn’t evoke the impression that it outshines the adjacent memorial park dedicated to the victims; yet it still needs to serve for state receptions and other representative events, while also providing the executive with much needed office space. A somewhat, contemporary feel shall be used.

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hello people i have acquired the land ARO20c or now know as cordinia i will take all the help i can get and all the advice i get.

the country is new and I am making a forest in the center left part and a few mountains in the center of the forest.

please comment and give me advice

The title of this entry is the peak of my humour guys, get used to it.

Nice holiday so far no? Been on a language camp in Berlin and then a sporting camp in Ińsko, Poland where I became a certified lifeguard. Next I’m departing with friends to sail up and down the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. A lot of Sea and marine related stuff this vacation.

Anyways I’ve been a little (just a teeny weeny little bit) inactive since May because of all this stuff, including my new passion physics and astronomy, and I don’t have my computer with me so I can’t edit. However, I’ve got some ideas as to what I want to do with certain areas of Litvania.

Pomorie (formerly Egalský kráj)

I decided to rename this one because it’s name could be confused with the Drabantian one in tourist adverts and stuff. So I simply took the Slovak word for “sea” - more - and added a “Po-“ prefix denoting a region or area.

The capital of this region is Jankovar, which I am struggling with a little bit with and might even move its position because it’s a bit awkward and unnatural. It makes the street grid and railways a bit hard to navigate naturally and logically with a city in a weird place like this. I might move it a bit to the south, nearer the coast, and on the shores of the inland seawater lake Moržíca (which I might rename Koblín) and build a small town of around 5,000 in the original position.

The entire region per se is going to be sort of modelled after the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship(my true native land). Because the Egalian Lake is a glacial lake, it means that obviously a glacier had to go over the land in this area and form it using its mass and power. That’s why there will be hills (a lot of them), post glacial period lakes, ponds and also marshes, and ancient culture megaliths. Small towns will dot the region and it might aswell be a popular local tourist destination for average Litvanians who seek peace and quiet in the untouched wilderness.

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I think many of you already know about my most detailed city, Igwepir. So I’ve noticed that there are not enough parks in the city, and I thought this was a nice place for a large park.

My question is, does it look good that way, and should I expand it to the whole area marked green (the part of the trunk road (marked red) would be a tunnel, and the parallel tertiary road will probably be deleted or turned into a small street)? I’m not sure if the park would be too big that way.

Ok, so I do a few strange interchanges in Arlington, but they are all efficient (at least from what I can tell).

This one connects not 3, 4 highways (AR F 3, AR F 7, DO 1 and AR 3).

Any suggestions for this?

Hello,

What do you think of my recently added part to Teberia’s capital city of Rovigna? You can recognize it because it is the only part of the city with buildings. You maybe have to zoom in, because it’s still on rendering for now.

I was wondering if there is a Castellanese (Spanish) word for Babelic. I want to make a Babelic church in Balonis :)

So somebody helped me move my city and there is a piece of land for sale that could be useful also it would be helpful you guys could help me develop mt growing town

there is also a big prison just south of the military airfield

After being on a trip for the last few days I came back to find the Blue Laden Power Plant had been removed which had (in my little town’s history) where most everyone worked. In light of this I have done a lot of forest reclamation and detailed the mall area. I did slightly bulldoze the mall and changed it to an outside mall on one side and on the other side it will be the downtown area and town hall. Please feel free to help me develop the area and give any tips for future development. Thanks!

-Elimis

I woke up today to behold the disappearance of all the areas I’ve mapped as farmland. For some reason, I have only seen this is only in Agarderia and Glaster, and not anywhere else. As far as I know, it is not a problem on my end, as the areas are properly tagged, closed and still exist and I have not modified most of them for weeks. The farmland on OSM shows up normally. It has only happened in Agarderia and Glaster, since I cannot find any other country with this problem.

What exactly is going on?

UPDATE: I have seemed to found a way to resolve the issue-by deleting the tag and retagging it as farmland. On ID, the difference appears to be that the old farmland is missing the ‘produce’ tag. Without the ‘produce’ tag, the farmland does not appear. I am not sure why.

hi guys and gals I made a small town on Harca and by small I mean the roads were 3ft away from each other so I made a new town near driambdara I think it is pretty good still a little bit small but that’s only the beginning of the place there is a piece of land there for sale if anybody wants it, I have some boat yards and some other stuff I am planning on useing the entire shoreline of the Joe river

So i am now just 2 days fresh to Open Geo Fiction. But, in that time I’ve begun developing a peice of the Harca peninsula considering it is so sparsely used. Thus i have begun to build the town of Pretoria. I haven’t really thought of a backstory. But, it was founded where it is due to Pretoria Lake, Pretoria Forest, and the Bay of Sand which allows for minor shipping industry to come and go from the Town’s small port. Also, Pretoria Shipbuilding has recently been added which I plan of having be a central part of the town. It’s a rather small Dockyard. But, with 2 reasonably sized Dry Docks it can make some large ships. But, mainly sticks to smaller ones. Also another corner stone of the town’s economy that I added recently is Yeworks Chemicals which produces a number of chemicals in alarming closeness to the Pretoria River, Riverside Park, and Ocean. (Mutated Crabs Anyone?) So I think I’ve done okay so far on the town. But, I’ll take suggestions for changes and additions.

After being inactive for quite a while, I am currently working on a new country. Since I am still working on a backstory it has neither a name nor a flag. The first city I’m building is called St. Andras. It is located on a strategically important area with control over a rather big bay and access to the sea. St. Andras is home to a marvellous Old Twon with a completely intact city wall. Part of the city is also a sea port and various train stations.

It’s always nice to hear feedback so here are the coordinates. Come visit and let me know what you think. What can I improve, what can I add, what should I remove?

Thank you, Hmniak

Uletha is flooded? It seems to me that the cause is that the coastline is no longer counter-clockwise. I do not think I’m the cause of the problem, but I ask: Is it enough to solve it counterclockwise? Confirm?

Hey everyone! As one of the newest members (if not the newest). I would like to say hello! In these past 3 days I have built a new city near the Blue Laden Tidal Power Plant. If anyone could help me continue designing it and/or give me future tips and tricks, that would be great!

-Elimis

Edited some parts of Northern Commonia. Added Karamanli, Bargasan, Kızılcaköy, Kızılca forest, Rivier Südd Forest, Agia Karamanlides river, Historical Dwarven District.

Hi there!

Due to the fact that I’m on the road and only have my “hacked” armv7h Chromebook with Arch Linux with me, I came to use Merkaartor a little bit because the JRE became horribly slow on the Chromebook these days and JOSM is almost unusable. I quite like Merkaartor. It’s much more simpler and less featured than JOSM, however, it has the really useful feature of building parallel lines in one step (a.k.a. two lane roads).

However, the URL’s from the FAQ to display the map layers in JOSM don’t work for Merkaartor. Does anybody else work with Merkaartor and/or have an Idea of how to display the OGF map layers in it?

Greetings, Markus

I was wondering if any videos can be found on the OGF Wiki. Like an advertisement for a company, or anything.

Hello people! So, since I won last week’s Weekly Word Electricity, and do check out the other entries! It is my turn to run the Weekly Word, this lucky number 7.

A note before I reveal the word, I’m glad I participated in last week’s Weekly Word since it kicked me into working even more on a project I have been putting off for quite a while, and it’s looking great!

So, our new Weekly Word, inspired by last week’s revealing of the new World Heritage Sites in real life, including our very own Lake District, the word this week will be…

HERITAGE

So, take it whatever way you’d like, some natural heritage like the Lake District, buildings, entire towns or villages, heritage railways, those are just some ideas I suppose!

The deadline for entries will be Thursday 18th at 22:00 UTC. Can’t wait to see your entries! The reveal of the winner may be a day or two late since I will be flying out for my holiday on Monday.

Keep up the mapping!

• Aces California

Edit: Here’s a resource you can use for inspiration ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_by_year_of_inscription

I’ve felt that I’ve dug myself a very large hole, starting from my previous mapping ventures in Wyndham early last year. The roads in Wyndham are questionable, and somehow I decided to make roads based on what looked nice, rather than what was realistic. I have to say that I’ve fixed the majority of the mess I drew beforehand, but following sentiments and similar feelings, the problem in Wyndham has not gone away completely. I’ve increasingly having to resort to thinking of reasons and excuses why xyz is like the way they are.

The junction here is possibly the epitome of my troubles in Wyndham. (Technically the outer parts of Wyndham deserve that title, but I have not mapped them intensively and so I have room to delete them as and when it is required.) I have made it more realistic than before, as you can see from my Bliki special. It is rather long and rather dreary, and it is more for my own musings and for the sake of recording information, rather than something that is designed for other people to read. The relevant sections are sections 1, 4 (for historical context) and 5.

If you have read my bliki entry and looked at my mapping, you will see that I still have quite a few troubles with this junction, even though it is somehow better than it is before. Wyndham itself is supposed to be a general reflection on a city beginning its transition from more ageing, brutalist structures built during the 60s and 70s to more modernist, more open structures. Something maybe like Birmingham in the early 2000s.

So, in conclusion, does anybody have any suggestions on how on earth I fix this mess???