As the new owner of AR053, one of the first things I had to do was rework the topography of the area. I didn’t like the previous topography since it didn’t fit my idea for the country, and I felt it wasn’t the most realistic. So I took the topographic map the previous owner had made for the whole southern Astrasia, and built on top of it.

Since the northern nation is not currently being mapped by anyone, and the owner of the southern one hasn’t been active in a while, it’s not like I could coordinate with neighbouring mappers to rework the topography. Besides, I wouldn’t want to impose my ideal topography on neighbouring mappers, especially when their areas are so developed already.

Thus, I pretty much kept the topography as it was around the borders, while also making sure it matched the topography of the rest of the area, of course.

I’m posting this mainly for any current and/or future neighbours, as well as admins so that they know why I’m doing what I’m doing lol. Anyway, here it is.

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Hello mappers,

Welcome to the movie world of Cinasia, I have roughly finished this weekend, a town for the Cinasia’s movie industry, one studio complex and and one movie related theme park which is like the Universal Studio. Is there anything I should add?

Hey everyone!

I am opening a part of my territory where everyone is free to add stuff! This is for a couple of reasons: 1. I’m feeling generous, and need inspiration for some of my own work. 2. I have noticed that a lot of free mapping areas are becoming quite full, with not much freedom to add stuff.

Before you go and start adding stuff, I want to enforce some conditions. Don’t worry, most of them wont restrict you too much!

1. DO NOT edit outside the island. If found doing so, all work will be removed. It is possible that editing outside of the allotted area will result in a temporary ban from admin.
2. Try and keep the style of mapping rural. There will be one large city, which is the only one. I will decide where it lies.
3. Try and keep most mapping close to the coast, as seen with most islands. There can be some roads that go through the mountains of the island.
4. Most of the city/town/village names will be a mix of Thai and Vietnamese. So try and keep your names like these! You can use my city names as a reference.

Let me know if you have questions! Here is where you can get started! I’m excited to see what you come up with!

Best wishes and happy mapping,

forky

Hi again to the whole community.

It is a great pleasure to speak with you again. As everyone surely knows, more than 1 month ago I launched the first “Mapping challenge”, which proposed to users to start developing natural mapping, to start developing our mapping in a realistic and orderly manner. Because we must continue the challenge, I plan to set the limit on June 2, 2020. Please add your natural mapping examples below and a contest will be held to determine the “Best mapping of the challenge”.

After having completed the previous challenge, I am thinking of developing a new one (whose theme I have not yet defined), for which, on this occasion, I ask you to reach a consensus for one:

1. Large-scale mapping of cities (urban streets, main roads, important buildings, urban parks).
2. Mapping of the railway, transport (land, sea and air) system, in addition to the terminals.
3. High-detail mapping of buildings with a 3D effect.

Please fill out this form: Google Form and provide your natural mapping examples please.

Happy mapping - Mapping Expert

I made some edits on my island https://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/10.96866/37.26663, and it will only show on the Topo Map and Histor, not Standard. Any help?

Edit: Its still not up, its been a long time.

Hello, I have started mapping an island nation recently and since I haven’t done coastline mapping much before, I am not sure how to do it. I am pretty sure what I did was right but it still hasn’t shown up after more than 12 hours since I made the edits to the coastline. I am not sure if this is normal, so I would like someone better than me to look at the coastline and see what is wrong with it. (https://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/10.8909/37.2957), that is the link to the island I edited and as you can see in view, it looks horrible but in edit, you can see my coastline changes and they only show in edit. Whoever knows what is wrong please help.

Hey everyone!

Recently I have not found inspiration to do anything particularly large, so I’m gonna be taking a break so I can get my creative juices flowing again. This means I might not make any noticeable progress in my country. This is just so people are aware!

Stay safe out there,

forky

Hi mappers,

Today is my last day of quarantine, everything goes fine, I can back to work tomorrow.

I map a lot during the 14 days and now may I present my tropical atoll Ching Sha.

It is a natural reserve, no permanent residents, but there are Marines, scientist and fishermen come for shelter. Permit is required for ecotourism. The idea comes from Pratas Islands .

Hi! Im a fairly new user. I have already acquired my first country, Margüela.

I would like for someone to take a look at my first two cities (Catalina and Tarifa) and give a commentary or tips on how to map on them.

I would also like to ask if there is a way to know who made specific countries, because I want to contact several people around the gulf my country is located in.

Another thing I have in mind is if there is any way to make the editing map any bigger, since it only lets you edit at around -400m scale. This would be to build highways.

Thanks for any feedback! -Tom

I’ve been trying to work more on Litvania’s map.

This involved a changeset uploaded on Monday, which uploaded, and refused to show up on the map after a day. I know this is normal, I’m not a beginner. But, then I looked in JOSM if it had even saved as an actual changeset (keep in mind I had the “Upload Succesful!” message). It didn’t, and now I have to restart.

Frustrations aside, anybody had this problem before or maybe know what I did wrong?

It’s been a while!

My work took a lot of time from me, and Welstand-Westrijk was kind of abandoned.

But our friend Covid came! And Spain is going through a hard lockdown.

One of the news during this time was that Olympic Games in Tokyo were cancelled, and I remembered that Kirchenburg were at the gates of hosting the Geolympiad 2020. So I came back to mapping.

I’m back to the mapping in Kirchenburg, and the time gave me some perspective on what I like and what i hate. Wanted to reshape the Olympic venues, but as far as I know, the Geolympiac was never officially goven to Kirchenburg, and it look quite well.

I’m reshaping the city. Worked on Grauberg area, in close town Gëlteen, and in a theme park.

I’ve seen really interesting new mapping around OGF. Nice to see everything keeps alive.

Hope everything goes well!

Hey everyone!

What is the reason for changsets no loading? I’ve heard this from other diary entries and I was wondering if a program that renders the changset onto the OGF map is not working properly or is slow. Is that the reason? I’m just curious.

Happy mapping, Geo

While I am doing Diary entries, I may as well ask if it is possible to edit the wiki, or add pages such as my country? I haven’t figured out a way to do this as yet. I understand if there is a no edit rule to prevent vandalism, but maybe there could be a way to limit what pages a user could edit to their own because I would love to add my country and cities on the wiki.

Hi! This my first diary entry but please read through it.

I want to know if there is a Discord, or any chat place outside of Facebook. I applied for the Facebook Group, but I never really use Facebook because it is a clunky and out-of-the-way for me. It’s also very unintuitive and seems inactive from the 6 posts per week it says there. I was wondering if there is a Discord or generally any other place to discuss OGF.

By the way, I was doing research on the Discord and came across much of the same questions where the answers surrounded an unofficial server that disbanded in 2017 or so. Is there a reason this is inactive? Also, has there been other attempts to start one?

I feel it is vital to have more community engagement because the lack of interaction from my neighbours or anyone in OGF made me quit about a month ago for more active hobbies, despite myself enjoying mapping. I’ve come back and thought it would entice more to join if we had a central discord that was advertised widely.

Thanks, rickypro

Hello friends.

Any of you can guide me, I have long built a town in a blue country. Now that I have had the opportunity to get a country of my own, I would like to transfer everything I built to this new country.

Can someone give me instructions or a link to explain it, I don’t know how to use JOSM

THANK YOU.

The iD editor on my computer isn’t letting me save my changes. When I click the “Save” button, it appears with a text box to put my changeset comments in, but there are no “Cancel” or “Upload” buttons, so there is no way to save my changes onto the map. Does anyone have any knowledge on how to fix this? The upload button isn’t grayed out, it’s just straight-up not there, even when I enter changeset comments.

Hello, just a quick question: Why aren’t the coastlines being updated recently? I’ve been waiting 3 days to see my coastline changes but they are the same as before. I believe it’s some technical issue, and if so, when can I / we expect to see the coastlines update again? Thanks!

Hello OGF, I’m just writing this if anyone has any feedback to give or wants any embassies or ports.

I know some of my rivers don’t look right. I like my work in the southeast the most. If you want to see more work in a specific area let me know.

I am currently mapping a small town on Drell, this is my second day here, I was wondering how did i get acces to the forum on; https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Special:WikiForum

I am having trouble loging in and I cant get in, do I have to contact any moderator or admin if such thing exists?

I’ve been working on Batuhitam (a province of the collaborative territory of Lorotoban). Since Lorotoban is analogous to Timor, I’ve been taking Indonesian geography into account. In OSM, Indonesia is not mapped completely, small towns often are just roads, so I do not have much to base small fishing villages off of.

I have begun a very rudimentary village on the island of Tenang off of the Batuhitam coast. The aforementioned village would be dependent on fishing for food and would not be well developed. So far I have a few huts and a path connecting them. Does anyone have suggestions for how I can develop and improve this village so as to make it more realistic?