Greetings, fellow mapper! On behalf of the OGF Transition Team, please be advised that OGF will be temporarily unavailable from Friday 27 August, through the weekend, returning on Monday 30 August. This downtime is necessary for server migration and necessary upgrades. As part of this downtime, we are asking all users to refrain from editing the map from during this time. Any edits you make or upload during this period may be lost. (JOSM users can still work offline, but please refrain from uploading until after your account is reactivated.)

This migration will allow us to move OGF to more stable servers with added capacity, which will allow us to:

• Bring back custom map layers, including topo map;
• Bring the standard renderer closer to its current OSM counterpart;
• Upgrade to newer versions of iD; and
• Provide a more reliable mapping experience for all users.

Currently, we anticipate that no major data loss will occur: your OGF account and past edits will automatically carry over to the new server, with no action required on your part. On Monday, your password will be automatically reset. To reactivate your account, you will be asked to accept the updated Terms and Conditions before resetting your password. While we do anticipate a smooth transition, some bugs and hiccups are an inevitability. If you do come across any issues during this process, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We are also anticipating migrating the OGF wiki the following weekend; be on the lookout for additional communication regarding that effort.

Looking forward to many more years of happy mapping,

-Mayor OGF Transition Team Communications Coordinator

Hi, I’m planning to make a national park in my country, Pactone, but I can’t figure out how. Can someone tell me? Thanks!

747 / 5000 Resultados de traducción Hello. good day. Greetings from Mexico.

My name is Ricardo. I have been in open geo fiction since December 2018. I really like mapping, currently I do it in Aztlán, in Tarephia. I have a lot of problems mapping following the reality of things, because I make very small or very large marks. I know that OGF offers a version so that you can map at scale from a program, and then paste your marks on the OGF map, but the truth is that English is quite difficult for me even though I use the translator and it has cost me a lot to install it in my computer, and then use it.

Someone would be so kind that you can explain to me how to use it in Spanish or know if there is a tutorial, even in English that I can see or some other recommendation. ¿?

Hola. buen dia. Saludos desde México.

Mi nombre es Ricardo. estoy en open geo fiction desde diciembre de 2018. ME gusta mucho mapear, actualmente los hago en Aztlán, en Tarephia. Tengo muchos problemas para mapear siguiendo la realidad de las cosas, pues hago unas marcas o muy pequeñas o muy grandes. se que OGF ofrece una versión para que puedas mapear a escala desde un programa, y luego pegar tus marcas en el mapa de OGF, pero la verdad se me complica bastante el inglés a pesar de que uso el traductor y me ha costado mucho instalarlo en mi compu, y luego utilizarlo.

alguien sería tan amable que me pueda explicar como usarlo en español o saben si hay algun tutorial, aunque sea en ingles que pueda ver o alguna otra recomendación. ¿?

Hello fellow Geofictionians,

after almost two years without any international travel (due to some virus whose name I forgot) I was fortunate enough to be able to travel through Italy for the last two weeks; by train, of course. Now, usually I wouldn’t use this website to post some elaborate travel blog - and don’t worry, I won’t - but I saw something I just had to share with this community.

Many of you probably have heard of the Vatican Museums before, and that they are a must-do-item on any travel list for Rome, just after the Forum Romanum and just before posing in front of other selfie-stick swinging tourists at the Trevi Fountain. What I, ignorant me, didn’t know before going there, is that the massive museum (which somehow fits into this 0.44 km² souvereign state alongside St. Peter and the HQ of the Catholic Church) not only features endless corridors of statues, tapestry, paintings and any kind of collectible you could think of, but also the “Galleria delle carte geografiche”. For anyone who spent a good part of their childhood sketching fantasy maps on paper, this corridor is like a trip on drugs. I’ll let the pictures below speak for themselves. 5/5 stars, 100 % recommended for mapping-enthusiasts!

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The Geolympics Mapoff is officially closed! I’d like to thank all those who submitted entries for participating. There’s been a lot of great work done.

The Geolympic Committee has established a voting procedure for making games canonical, which is as follows.

1. First Review: Once the deadline (8 Aug) occurs, the committee will briefly review each of the submitted bids to ensure they have a minimum level of quality that we’re comfortable with eventually making official. At least three members of the committee have to agree that the bid is sufficient; if two members don’t feel it has met that threshold, the bid is automatically rejected.
2. Community Vote: Once the acceptable bids are determined, the committee will invite mappers to vote on all the acceptable bids on a 1-5 scale, with a 5 being a top-tier bid. This allows you, the community to have a say and still get to vote on things.
3. Committee Vote: Concurrent with #2, each member of the committee will assign a 1-5 score for each bid as well. Once the Community Vote is done, the committee will average all five scores together (community vote + one score from each committee member) to come up with the composite score.
4. Primary Ranking and Assignment: With composite scores in hand, for years with multiple bids, the bid with the highest composite score would earn the official awarding of the games for that year. For conflicting years (e.g., a year with a Northern summer games and a Southern winter games) the higher composite score of the two would determine the hemisphere for that year.
5. Secondary Ranking and Assignment: For non-winning bids, the committee will reach out to each bidder and offer alternate options to complete the schedule. First preference would be for adjacent vacant years, followed by years within a 20-year window of the preferred bid. If the bid is still unassigned after that, we offer the bid as the host for a regional game instead.

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Hey hey! Long time no see OGF. Final years of high school have really killed my free time, but I’m hoping now to establish some serious mapping. Basically, the only project of significance I’ve got done is now more or less complete; The Anaras-Clemente Intercontinental Airport, and a conjoining business park.

The idea is that it’s an older airport that has recently been significantly renovated and redeveloped; I’ve worked really hard to build it as realistic as possible and to irl scale. Connected is a business park, built as a new and walkable development for large offices for international companies; nice and conveniently near the airport. If anyone’s keen to set up office space for their own company please send me a message and you can designate a building :)

Hello, I am owner a territory called Xochimalta (https://opengeofiction.net/edit#map=11/-0.5994/55.5989), but I really have any questions about the possible history of the country, I would like to know what suggestions or what articles they talk about it. Xochimalta is a country with Mediterranean influences, Castellanese language, the most widespread religion is Christianity (more specific Catholicism), tropical climate (I know that in the real world a country like this on the equator is not real :( ), the territory is on Free Island (West Uletha). I have planned a time with monarchies, others with foreign invasions and the creation of a republic. I’m just not sure who the ancestors of that place are, and if the colonial era is a good idea? If a friend of OFG wants to make a suggestion about my mapping or Xochimaltan History , your opinion is welcome!

Have a nice day :)

Are there any older archives of the OGF map/website?

The Internet archive, while functional, only goes to a certain zoom level. -DMP5

I am curious, what are some features in a map that screams 3rd world? Are there any examples of OGF users that have built a 3rd world country. My dream country to map is an island nation that was once poor during the 1800s but after colonization it was turned into a trading metropolis. My goal is to map out an old town with ruins on the far side of the island nation, and a slum district.

Hi everyone,

Have mapped a lot in recent days, and I would take a break for other issue. But before that, I would like to present Tan Kong Island, my recent work.

It is just a grand planning, no details. I will finish the tram and metro system when I’m back. I know someone would say the island is a plagiarism of real world Hong Kong Island but I would not agree. It is just a homage. To be honest, yes, Tan Kong has carried many of my childhood memories, some places on the island looks similar to somewhere on Hong Kong Island before 1997 but has became history for some reasons, reconstruction, reclamation etc. I think this is my way to say goodbye to the city I born, I grew up and beloved. There are also some features only exists in my imagination such as a oil refinery plant which the idea comes from New Jersey. It provides job for Tan Kong’s working class and balance the economic structure.

However Tan Kong is still the home of Tan Kong Stock Exchange, and multiple commodity futures. Most financial activities gather at Intown, Ha Wan Tsai, Naval, and Yau Wan. If there is any multinational company wants to set up headquarter, regional headquarter, just let me know by message, I will map them.

I will stop here. Happy mapping!

This morning, I made a new city on the northern island of what I want to become an archipelago. Anyway, the new city is called Sato. It is off of Ishidashima Route 1. I also added some farmland to Nagashima County.

I started the City of Severin some weeks ago. Today i will write something of the history of the Town.

Severin is a City with history in goldmining and further processing of gold. It was founded by Hanso Severin. In the City are many goldsmiths, jeweler and watchmakers. Southwest of the City is still a active goldmine. With this history it´s not a surprise that there is a Museum of Goldsmith and Gold Mining.

In the East is a near border with a border crossing Point. It is still a very important trade Route.

This is a historical basis of Severin. I will present further details of the City in the next weeks.

Position of Severin https://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/17.7165/142.4450

Recently, I’ve come to a decision to join this site. Me being a bit familiar with road jargon - and an urge to fulfill my passion of mapping with the help of a seemingly friendly community would at least be able to create a town without some sort of intramural dilemma, right?

Wrong.

Welcome to Thornsbury - a town that I had envisioned to not be a calamity of biblical proportions, but unforunately it seems I had my brain tied up as the inclination of having your town noticed by other people felt so pleasurable. Even this is wrong - and obstructs your actual passion; switching it for attention seeking.

In conclusion - I’d like some helpful aid on what I could call a blunder on my part. If this isn’t exactly suitable for a diary entry, then I’ll take to something else to figure out how I could lodge Thornsbury into a less, crowded suburbian clutter.

Bavarian, your local bankrupt salesman

Since October, I’ve been hosting mapoffs (Similar to mapping challenges) on the unofficial discord for ogf. After some discussion with admin and other users, it was decided that the mapoff would be used in order to reboot the Geolympics. As such, this is being posted here so that all users are able to see it.

The July 2021 Mapoff is The Geolympics.

Based on some recent discussions, among others arising from the orphaned state of the wiki in this regard, we are reviving the “Geolympics”.

The idea is to have a more or less consistent list of cities which held the games. Obviously backed by a reasonable amount of mapping. For that reason this edition of the map-off will be geolympics-themed. It couldn’t be easier: Map a geolympic venue. Summer or Winter games, both count. (If anyone has a shrewd idea about spring or fall games, let us know. Maybe a 1000sqft raking contest?)

Just check the RW games from the time you plan to map and see what infrastructure is needed. Usually a big stadium as the centerpiece, a village for the athletes and some more locations for other sports, like tennis courts, water venues, ski jumps, alpine pistes, etc. You also need some public and private transport infrastructure. This is further detailed down in the rest of the wiki page. Your entry does not need to be completely new, as there’s no good reason to exclude good mapping from becoming canon. We have not yet finally decided how to deal with the existing ones, but I think we can agree that a bit of incentive to improve it a bit more is never a bad idea. This means that if you submitted an entry under the old bid system that isn’t listed on the bottom of the page, go ahead and re-visit it, spruce it up, and enter it in this contest!

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Hi everyone,

you are invited to participate in discussion about the new Midistland project, which I would like to organize over the course of this summer. I have started a forum thread and compiled all my personal opinions and ideas in this document.

See you in the forum! For East Uletha, this has been Eklas.

Hello, OGF community (and new mappers in particular),

I’d like to inform you that from July 1st, 2021, the territory of Midistland will be closed for editing by new users. The status of the territory will change from blue (public) to purple (collaborative). Users that have already been working on the territory will be allowed to continue doing so, but are advised not to start new projects.

The reason for this change is that I would like to start some kind of discussion about potential better use for the territory: Midistland is in an important location, it is the “gateway to East Uletha”, yet its current state leaves a lot to be wished for. I would like the discussion to take place on the OGF forum; in the following days I will try to gather some opinions and ideas that I have and form them into a proper announcement. Anyone that would be interested to take part in the reconstruction of the territory is welcome to do the same – I’m hoping we can open the discussion at the end of June / very beginning of July, and maybe even get to work later in the summer.

For East Uletha, this has been Eklas. Have a nice day!

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Hello everybody,

My idea of making Kalm (and my neighbouring countries) a “strictly controlled” collaborative territory does not seem to work so far. I am thankful for the positive feedback for this idea and also for the work that has done and the porposals that have been made for Kalm. But this is a reminder: If you’re interested in working with me in my territoires, just let me know and see this diary entry.

Family and work still don’t leave much time for OGF.

For the moment I try to find 1-2 hours per week to continue my work in Tarott. For example, there is Neubunsort, a strictly car-free artificial island under construction. And I work on two long planned railway connections: The east-west connection under the harbour (now open!) and the new north-south tunnel (via Kulzertor station, now finally under construction). By the way, the current Hauptbahnhof (main station) in Tarott (the former “Viaduktbahnhof”) is in “interim solution” introduced in 1991, but due to many delay it will last until at least 2027!

Kind regards
Johannes

Dear all,

This diary entry is to invite all OGF mappers to submit ideas for the city layout of Xiongjing, the glorious great capital of the mighty Bai Empire.

Previously, I was pretty unsatisfied with the old layout I have drawn out, which limited possible developments of the city. So, lacking ideas at the moment, I decided to raze the capital to the ground, save for a few government buildings within a 4km square and a railway station.

Xiongjing is a master-planned city, specifically designed to house the modern government institutions of the newly-established Middle Bai Dynasty in the 17th century.

Users can submit their ideas in this diary entry with their explanations. Other users can also provide input on the proposed layouts suggested. Attached below is a screenshot of the city interested users can work on.

The citizens of Xiongjing and the Bai Empire will be grateful for any input.

Long live the Empire!

Zhen Kang (Z.K.)

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Ages since i posted, but in Point Fern, i’m struggling to get the ideal sizes for schools, and i know some are off. Really useful would be some sort of ideal scale for each kind of school (Primary, Intermediate, High)

Also School sizes are different in different suburbs btw.

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Area I’m talking about

I have sectioned off a section near the main retail area for Industrial, but i’m not sure if i’ve put the roads too far apart from each other, in general.

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Hello!

It’s been a while since OGF got better by removing histor and topo layers, but also coastlines stopped re-rendering at zooms 9 and lower. This can be a bit annoying, with best example being islands in Plevia:

https://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/44.7370/63.5641

and Ginnungaoyar:

https://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/-58.0808/84.8831

I think that re-rendering all coastlines once for about two weeks would be a reasonable solution.

MiePrzKom