So, I’ve been working on this for a little while now. I still plan on working on Tempora, but for now, my main focus is here. I’ve made Albert as the capital of the nation, with two smaller cities nearby named Evenson and New Peace. The downtown region of the city is composed of the old city and the new region surrounding it. What do you guys think of the city?

Can I use the term dagwon for use in Buildtionian Ingerish? Actually the term came from the anime Yuusha Shirei Dagwon (1996 iirc) and the term in the anime means “brave hero” in an alien language; thus this might violate OGF verisimilitude rules. But unfortunately there is a city called Tengah which contains a large portion of real world names (Hatta, Paku Buwono &c; see location in link) so perhaps it is ok to add the term to Buildtionian Ingerish–I would like to rename the Buildtionian National Armed Forces into the Buildtionian National Dagwons, the Army, Navy and Air Force into Land, Naval and Air Dagwons respectively.

Dear all, in this page of the diary, I update you on the last main interventions in the mapping of the territory of Gardensa.

First, in the capital, Giliarca, the San Fortunio Underground Railstation (not a subway station, but an ordinary train station located underground, on the model of several existing underground railway stations, like Penn Station in NY or the recent station of “Porta Susa Sotterranea” in Turin, Italy).

[20180214 Update… Ah: the district surrounding the San Fortunio Station is a financial area where all banks have set up a branch: if you have a bank in your country, choose a nearby building not already tagged, so tag it with your bank and send me a message or a comment below to let me know!]

Secondly, always in Giliarca, the Indaco Amphitheater, on the banks of the homonymous river.

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Hi guys I’am sorry but I wasn’t active that much for the last few weeks. I wanted to say that I will map more in Malavsko with a new plan for my country.

Hi everyone

this is a copy of my topic posted on the forum. Sorry for this, but for some reason no one is answering there…

I’m here to ask feedback about the work I’m doing in my first country, Brennland. I’ve started mapping using the in-browser tool, but I’ve switched to JOSM last week. I’ve sketched a part of the main river, Brenne, which flows from the northern part of Brennland towards the big lake in the south. Having very precise ideas about a particular area of the country, I’ve started mapping at a high detail level from a very small city, Freienfeld, in the northern part of Brennland, and its surrounding area (61.8252, 54.6268) This is an area of big mountains and quite wide valleys, an “alpine” scenario, like the ones of the big valleys of Austria or South Tyrol (Italy). I’m asking for a feedback, as this is my first attempt in mapping such complicated areas (and a whole Country). In the recent past I’ve mapped a bigger city, Dominton, in Midistland (38.3351, 93.5067).

Thank you and happy mapping to everyone!

Within my country, I have three regions, region 1, region 2, and region 3, I was wondering if someone can help me delete those regions and help me make new ones within my country. I am open to all suggestions and help

When I was doing initial research to figure out what I wanted Patermas to look like, I spent a lot of time looking at parts of the world located around the same latitude…and I stumbled upon the incredible karst formations in the borderlands of China and Vietnam, along the Gulf of Tonkin. I decided that Patermas needed some epic karst, despite the challenge that mapping such an intricate landmass would present.

Version 1.0 of the Yagui range on the Patermas-Draco border is now live on the map, and I could use some feedback. I get that it’s not quite right yet, so constructive only, please…don’t just say “X doesn’t work,” share an idea or potential solution. :) Or, hey, if you like it the way it is, tell me to chill.

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Is it allowed to use the Blue countries like a ‘Testing Zone’ for cities to see if we like it, then copy-paste it into our own countries?

Also, could it be possible to ‘Control’ those kinds of areas that we use as a literal ‘testing ground’?

I don’t know if this is supposed to go to forums.

Thanks, Zekiel

How soon will I be able to make my own country, that being the reason joined in the first place.

There’s disquiet in Saviso at the moment. The city is due to host the New Ingerish cricket team soon, and they’ve nowhere to play! A city of nearly five million, and the Saviso Cricket Ground is nowhere to be seen! After consulting with cartographers over rum, the St Austellian government realised there’s nobody in Vodeo who can build a stadium, and that foreign expertise should be sought.

I’m quite pleased with how Saviso is coming along, it seems to be keeping up pretty well with its more well-established foreign counterparts. And yet for the life of me, I just can’t build a stadium. I’ve tried to design one myself, but I’m never satisfied with the shape or scale. So I’m turning it over to the community - who thinks they can build a worthy stadium for Saviso? I’m intending on it being something like the the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with plenty of capacity and lots of room for rugby and football in the off-season.

As usual, there’s a crate of Port Adelaide rum in it to sweeten the deal.

I have a few questions in making my country look better.

How do I make exits (off of motorways) appear with numbers? How can I make a trade route to other countries without breaking the rules? How can I make a bridge across a river to another country without breaking the rules?

I am open to all answers and they will be put into consideration.

After the public presentation of Gardensa and its capital Giliarca, some days ago, I received a lot of very interesting considerations by many of you. So: now I’ll I will anticipate the changes that I will bring in the map of my territory in acceptance of these observations.

The main issues were: the position of a big city in the tip of a thin peninsula, with two kind of consequences: human (enemies attacks), and natural (hurricanes and floods), and the unnatural course of the Indaco river, in the center of the peninsula, with a last unjustified turn to the west before the mouth

Well, I must premise that the position of the city in the tip was from the first moment a choiche taken with awareness: it has been one of the reasons behind the choice of this specific territory. And in the discussion in my last post, indeed it has emerged that this fact in itself is not contrary to the principle of likelihood. So, that will not changed.

But, about specific details, most of your critical observations are more than correct: the position of the city of Giliarca needs to be more credible. And so also the course of the Indaco river.

So I tell you now the changes I will bring. Of course you can suggest some “corrections to corrections”.

But please note that what I’m going to write, and the graphs illustrating this, are simplifications: in the actual changes I will modify every detail: roads, railroads, smaller cities etc., and especially taking into account the domino effect, so each change produces others, until it returns to an overall coherence.

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I’ve gone in and fixed a lot of problems some people have been stating about my city, Tempora. I’ve improved the airport greatly, but I’m still not entirely sure it’s good yet. I’ve also made the metro system more realistic, but there might still be some problems. I’d like some more advice on how I can improve the city!

I struggled for complete motorways and build some cities.

But time has come.I will work so much for my country again, but my country needs development and knowledge.

Therefore Tedimah will open to the world for trade, alliances, necessary resources, and science.

Firstly, we will request for trade agreements for some countries, secondly, we will have to make some concessions and we are going to submit our offers as well.

Tedimah will join into prosperous countries!

I just thought of something, about how many cities have been created. Then, thought, which is the largest? What is the largest city in OGF?

Dear all,

I waited some months to present “officially” the country of Gardensa and in particular the map of its capital, the city of Giliarca. But I have to say that during that months I had several contacts with many of you, speaking privately about the mapping of our countries and our mutial relations.

In this post, I’ll focus the attention on the city of Giliarca.

So, the main reason because I waited to propose a “public presentation” in this page, was that I preferred that the map should have a visible form. Now, the city of Giliarca is mapped for about the 45% of its final extension. I preferred to map progressively with a good level of detail, rather than map immediately all the city and put gradually the details. It can explain, e.g., the fact that the Airport can seems today to be overproportioned.

I’m planing to complete all the mapping of the city in the next six-seven months (august 2018).

I am aware that there are many flaws and lacks in the mapping of Giliarca. For this reason, I’m ready to hear any comments you may have. Depending on the case, I can explain the reasons for aspects that leave you perplexed, or I will modify the map to correct any true mistake, in particular about verosimility. Indeed, the main question is: looking at the map of the city of Giliarca, what elements lead you to say “it’s not a real map”? Effectively, in a good map all these elements must disappear.

A last word about the wiki: at the moment I’m writing the page about the Country that explain also the origins of its Capital Giliarca.

Good evening mappers.

I’m somewhat new to mapping and OGF(lurked for a few months) but from what i’ve seen from the lurking I have to say i’m pretty interested in joining you lot. It’s also a great way to brush off some free time anyway I have started my very first of many proposed cities Trekburg! in the country known as Mecyna.

To give you a little backstory Trekburg was founded as small settlement on the North east coast of Mecyna by waves of High Astrasian settlers looking for new unclaimed land around the time of their arrival from Uletha. Historians are not exactly what year the city was officially established or who was responsible for naming the city but the increasing presence of wealthy Ulethan and Commonian traders would put the city on the map and eventually bring much prestige to the city before the construction of the Mecyna Canal just about 80m south of Trekburg.

So, hi, first. I’m pretty new, and I’m not exactly amazing at this. A helpful mod helped by replying with a scale comparison thing, (and I realised March Springs makes Swansea look like it got shrunk in a washing machine, as well as the buildings I made being random polygons), so I’m going to use that for the new town. This is my eighth day on, and so I’m still going around Commonia making some random stuff. Thanks, Alsatian. P.S. I doubt I’ll make many of these, but eh, why not make one.

25th January, 2018 (Second Diary Entry): I’m not going to ‘double diary entry post’, so I’m just going to edit this slightly. Again, thanks for informing me about the brand issue. And also, I’m busy making the least square houses in the entire world, I hope, so that it stands out like a sore thumb (for a good reason). Allerton is coming along better than March Springs (as would a dog running after its tail, but oh well), and should become a large…-ish town any minute now. Any minute… ANY minute…

26th January, 2018 (Third Diary Entry): AND HELLOOO THERE. I’m making some more random stuff by realising there’s a direction thing. Apparently the distance between ‘3.37510, 153.29873’ and ‘3.37504, 153.29878’ is just under 100 miles, and it apparently takes two and a half hours to get there. If you’re not aware, these are places that are barely 15 or 20 metres apart on the Chestnut Roundabout, in March Springs, and because the direction doesn’t understand how roundabouts work, it sends you all the way down the H40 to Kearney, then all the way up the Southern Bypass back to the very same roundabout. I’d advise you just walk this distance, not drive for 2 and a half hours through Kearney and several other towns and villages and then all the way back again just to get 10 metres in March Springs.

Inspired by Uncyclopedia, I attempted to write a humorous article about Litvania.

Idk if it’s cringy, I don’t really care. Hope you like it.

I just learned that diary entries were a thing :P I joined a few weeks ago, but I kinda just did my own thing. I’m working on a city in west Lecroix called Tempora along the coast. I’m not really sure what else to put here…