i wanna delete my whole city (heathon) cause its too ugly, should i? I spent weeks working on it which makes me not wanna do it at the same time, so i thought that i should get recommendations from yall. What do you think?

after 3 years of inactivity I have returned to editing, over the past few days I have made many changes to my little town of Fremont in blue space. I have been at a loss for where to start on some of my many plans for the area and plan to develop it further until i run out of space, then I shall look into requesting a small territory to build all my ideas, preferably the land labeled ARO19c.

H.M. Shia Space Center is the only space facility of Cinasia for now. It is managed by Cinasian Space Agency. the Space Center can operate heavy rocket (size of Ariane 5 in the real world) at the First Launch Complex for manned spacecraft, business, science and military satellites. Besides, two space navigation companies, SpaceY(暢宇) and and Sand Martin(沙燕), built various type of launch complex, for both recyclable rocket and traditional rocket. In the Future, Cinasia would like to cooperate with other nations for bigger space program, the launch site will be some where at Yuethon(越漢). Feel free to comment and leave me message if your country wanna launch an Space Odyssey too.

Regards,

Hilsonbergman

IMPORTANT: THIS IS ABOUT A FUTURE COLLABORATION STATUS. NO WORK OF OTHER USERS WITHIN THE MENTIONED COUNTRIES IS PERMITTED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!

Dear mappers,

I recently took the decision to turn my countries into a well-coordinated collaborative status in the beginning of 2021. I have to much land and by far not enough time.

As the wiki is not loading here, I can’t create a wiki page for that right now. But here are some important points.

• I have many ideas for many parts of the country, that are not yet mapped. So in any case, any cooperation would require the willingness of the respective user to discuss things in advance and to adapt things if they don’t fit into my “mental map” of the respective country.
• Every region has a different mapping status, so there are regions where I still would have to outline some basic features before someone can work there. This also results in the allowance to map only general features in a smaller zoom level or only detailed features in a larger zoom level.
• There will be a very strict application procedure for interested users, e.g. the need to create some examples of mapping that fits into the respective country in a selected “testing area” (where it might be removed if it doesn’t reach the needed standards). There will be a testing phase and a well regulated approval procedure of changes.
• [tbc]

In a dedicated section of my user page in the wiki I will present some tasks where people apply to. Examples:

• Motorway/national road numbers for Kalm
• More natural looking waterway connection between the Hesperic Ocean and the Vinn Sea
• Create a nice and natural looking coastline
• Help with mountainous regions (I’m not very god at it)
• Help with other natural features (nice looking rivers, lakes, etc.)
• Map the city of Herlenz
• Continue the work on the Kelmtal region, Kalm’s Ruhr area
• …

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Hello, mappers, a message from Eklas.

Recently, there has been an increase in new users on the website editing the map where they’re not allowed to, citing that they couldn’t access the wiki About page, where important information about our rules is stored. While the admin team doesn’t consider that an excuse for not following the rules (because you can always stop the loading after a few seconds and then read the plain HTML version), it is becoming a problem. This is why I have put together a document which compiles all of the essential information stored on the wiki not only regarding the rules, but also other information and resources. I’ve named it the User Bluebook, in reference to, well, the usual color of guidebooks.

The OGF Bluebook, linked below, compiles all of the essential information about rules of the website, territories and mapping, and it is strongly recommended that all new or recently joined users read it.

• CLICK HERE TO READ THE OGF BLUEBOOK
• Google Drive link in case link above not working

Quick advice: which territories can new users edit?

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It would be fun to have more than neighbor already, but I want to ask for advise on a border checkpoint, I already have 1 main one and 1 very small one with just a road connection and a building. However, I have multiple roads that just dead end as I move along my western border as there is nothing to connect to. However, with my one existing main checkpoint, I don’t really know how they work so I just went with what I thought was at one. Please give constructive criticism in how I can improve my checkpoints and if you want to help me in general with this, I’d appreciate it, Thanks, and Happy Mapping.

I want to make a few islands in my country, but they won’t show up as land.

How do I make Islands?

Hi, I am new and I am just a kid who likes geography. I had no idea that this world was so in depth.

I just want to know, how do i get more into history too this world?

What country colonized mine? How and why did they? How can I answer all these questions?

I’ve taken the difficult decision to redesign the entire territory of Tavauru. This decision has been made as the quality of my mapping has increased, and it has become increasingly difficult to work with the relief and topology of the island.

I previously gave the physical landscape a lot less consideration, but now as my mapping moves away from the lowland areas it has become increasingly difficult to create a realistic landscape that I am happy with.

The island will still retain its shape for the most part, but the landscape is set to resemble something more like Reunion or Tahiti. In my current plans for Tavauru 2.0, Faiai’ita and Raiangua will remain in their place but will be completely overhauled to fit the new geography of the island. The culture and language of Tavauru will remain the same, and once the new version takes shape many specific features will be returning.

Happy mapping,

2amCereal

Hey! I’ve been mapping for a few days now in my first territory and i’m making steady progress, but that’s (of course) not why I’m posting this. No. I’m in need of some in-world guidelines. You see, the nation of Gharbiya is a muslim nation, and thus i’m curious; is there a version of Mecca in this world? Surely, the prophet must’ve been enlightened somewhere? So… Where should my largest mosques be facing? Are there any other quirks to the religion in this world I should keep in mind? Which are the muslim nations of this world? Are there even any? Also; (as a bit of a sidenote) Is there already a name for a nomadic culture in the Great Helion desert? (the wiki is now even more gone than a moment ago so… Can’t seem to look it up)

I’d love to have the nation of Gharbiya entwined with the world and feel truly alive. I know it’s extremely early in the making, but bear with me. I’m looking for an ex-colonial overlord, or even failed attempts at earlier colonialism. Things that may lead to influences such as names of things or even structures built after foreign ideals. Such as old forts or ports. And I’d like to weave those into the nation a bit, and not just tag them on as an afterthought when the nation is more thorougly mapped. Any ideas are welcome, let’s discuss in the comments!

Hello there! I come to you all today because Iscu is open for embassies! I’m interested in setting up embassies with nations that are reasonably close to Iscu. Iscu is a small country with a equally small foreign service, so only countries nearby or major world powers will likely have embassies with Iscu. If you aren’t sure if you qualify, just ask in the comments.

If you want embassies with Iscu, please comment below!

Lithium-Ion

EDIT (Mid-2021): Iscu is not open for embassies, it’s been retconed to be a AN Territory.

I have returned to OpenGeofiction in a couple of months after first pausing on all editing, here I am resumed with editing Lindenville with great potential, along with its suburbs. There are suburbs completely unmapped as I know, these are suburbs that will eventually see mapping. I have just recently placed a historic city circle for Lindenville due east of the city center, commemorating the history of the city, etc. Its road network is supposed to reach far, going into portions of Wintania to the west, the national park to the east, and then Eriwynne Prefecture north as already mapped, however the majority of it is in Meredy Prefecture home to the whole metropolitan area.

Hello everyone,

anybody knows who is the owner of Mazan, or if it has no owner, who is responsible of it?

Hi, Thought I’d have a look at messing around in Maperitive so that when I have filled up more of my region I could make some nice looking location maps as I’ve seen others do… however it doesn’t seem to render Highway=Raceway?? Considering that this is the standard tagging method for race circuits in OSM this seems strange to me, does anyone have any ideas how to add it to the rendering? Or examples of scripts anybody has made that render it?

Thanks

In order to comply with the new language rules of the (ex-) Commonian territories, I’ve “dravidianized” the names of a region I’ve been developing before I’ve got my own territories.

This region is AR923-01, and it had been left with no new edits for a while, so I made sure it didn’t impact on a new user’s mapping.

This area formerly had English or Quebec French names. I’ve kept those records under “name_en” and “name_fr” tags, and I used Google Translate according to the meaning of the names for example: Nouvelle-Mountréau => “Royal Mount” or “Royal Hill” => രാജകീയ മലയോര . Grande-Louisiande => “city of Louis” => ലൂയിസ് നഗരം Another example Quatre-rivières => “Four Rivers” => നാല് നദികൾ.

Maybe it will help get people to map in the correct language in those areas. I hope my edit was useful and not destructive.

N.b., I don’t speak dravidian languages at all, so I used Google Translate. Feel free to fix any weird names.

SC.

Hi everyone,

I cannot make my buildings on a square in my city show up on the standard map. It does work with History and Topo, though. I mean this and this square, but it is a common problem for other, smaller ones too. The same applies for this castle. It should have a little garden inside, but on the standard map, you can just see the paths in the garden. I did use Potlatch to have these spaces free and Potlatch worked sometimes, but in these cases (and some other cases which also include grass on water, for example, but mostly buildings on squares) it didn’t. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks! FiFaFo

Hello all! I’m new to OGF and JOSM (which I began using for scaling purposes) and I really like what this is about! My first town is Tolanville in Michisaukee, FSA, a bit east of Massodeya City. I’m exited to see where this project goes, and I have been told that some are quite interested in my mapping, as there apparently isn’t often new faces that are already experienced in mapping.

I was just going through some places in OGF and just realized that malls were actually very barren. Usually the name of the mall is given and then the rest is ignored. We should be putting the shops into malls, just like if it was a high street. Thank you.

Dear mappers,

I am astonished that “suddenly” (maybe not really, I have not been active in OGF for several weeks) some neighbouring countries of Kalm disappeared: Vinnmark and the old western part of Pretany.

I understand that a collaborative project like OGF is in a constant change and that mappers leave the project—and thus their countries are “lost”. In the case of Pretany this is not very relevant for me, as (unfortunately) I did not work very much within “my” regions next to its former western border.

With Vinnmark, the situation is much different: The former owner once asked if other people would help him to map his country. I offered my help and so I put much effort into designing the general layout of the southern part of the country next to Kalm and Ventria. Now, all this work suddenly disappeared from the map. I’m sad and even angry.

Don’t misunderstand me: Of course such a step might be necessary from time to time in OGF. And I’m sure that I will find a good solution in cooperation with the new owner of Lentia. But: At least the owners of neighbouring countries should be contacted before such an important step of replacing a whole country (or removing a large part of it, in the case of Pretany) is being taken. Even though there may be one specific owner of the country, the respective mapping might have been developed in close cooperation with the owners of neighbouring countries.

I hope that we will find a good solution in this case—and that for future cases there will be a better communication of such steps.

Happy mapping!
Johannes

Hi all,

some of you may have noticed that there is a new natural waterway connection between the ocean and the Vinn Sea through the north-western part of Kalm. Ūdilugbulgidħū asked me (already in September last year) if I would agree to create such a connection as a result of discussions regarding the “logic” of the OGF history in this part of our world.

I completely agreed to his arguments. And I liked the idea, also because it makes the geography not only of this part of Kalm but also of western Uletha even more interesting and inspiring in my point of view.

So I sketched a first version (directly in OGF) and even a second and a third one (as a constant progress, not as separate alternatives). However, I suffer from a massive lack of time for being active in OGF (my OGF time of past days is now mostly family time).

So: Yes, there is and “always” will be such a waterway connection and you can include this fact in wiki articles where it seems relevant. You can add shipping lines using it if you want. (Don’t worry: I will correct/move them once I change the layout of the waterway connection in case they don’t fit anymore.)

But the current layout is not the final one. There will, for example, be a new waterway connection between Ernleben and Woltershafen/Porto João (which I design in coordination with Andy, of course), turning the peninsula of Kettholm into an island.

Sorry for this unfinished project with great importance. I will continue as soon as possible.

Happy mapping!
Johannes