Hi!

Recently I’ve been more active on OGF and hadn’t really seen how well the new OGF works. Lately it’s been quite annoying as it seems that my country (Eelanti) isn’t rendered at all on some zoom levels (levels 15-20). The only way to get the map to render seems to be to actually look at the areas on the map with different zoom levels (even Ctrl+F5 does nothing instantly) and maybe do some refreshes and come back later. It’s also kind of annoying to see all the “Error: no tiles at this zoom level” messages on JOSM and not being able to view areas that I’ve mapped before the new servers/OGF.

Is there any other solution to this than try to open all the mapped areas on different zoom levels and maybe do some refreshes? Of course new edits will also help in small scale but not for other areas. I’ve also noticed that the renderer seems to be slower than on OSM while on the old OGF the renderer seemed faster than OSM (at least close).

NOTE: If you try to look at my country, I’ve gotten most of the more detailed areas to render now (at least on some of the missing zoom levels) so it’s a bit less obvious now. I also know that it takes time for new edits to show up. I’m talking about edits that are 2-4 years old.

Thanks in advance and happy mapping!

Eevee

My yet-to-be-named country (UL22f, if anyone’s curious) is going to be an area highly influenced by Christism (it’s modeled after Nordic countries, particularly Norway and Sweden), especially throughout its history. I’m wondering what different Christic denominations there are in OGF and what they roughly parallel in the real world. Here’s what I know of so far. If you could fill in the blanks or add/correct anything else on this list of Christic denominations that would be great:

• Darcodian Church ~ RW (Roman) Catholic Church
• Ortholic Church ~ RW (“Eastern”) Orthodox Church or Catholic Church?
• Church of Ingerland ~ RW Anglican Church/Church of England
• Apostolic Churches ~ A catch-all for the many RW Protestant National Churches, particularly in Western Europe
• Puritism ~ RW Puritanism?
• Reformatic Church ~ A rough imitation of RW Lutheranism or Protestantism generally?
• Esquisitic/Usquesitic Church ~ Sounds like the RW Mormon/LDS Church potentially?
• Mauroi Church ~ A localized branch of RW Orthodox (or Coptic?) Christianity?
• Ekelan Church ~ Another RW Orthodox Church?

Additionally, there will be some influence from other religions in my country as well. Are there any OGF imitations of:

• Judaism
• Islam
• Hinduism
• Buddhism

Thanks so much for your help!

P.S. I don’t want a long discussion about religion (nobody would ever fight about it, right?), just help on identifying different religious groups in the OGFiverse.

Contrary to the current mood (at least here in cold and Omicron-struck central Europe), I’d like to invite you for a short holiday trip; for a less cringy message, see below.

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Let’s start by grabbing something to eat at a newly opened breakfast-cafe in edgy Óram’uel. From there, we can walk into the old town and join the masses of less trendy tourists posing for selfies in front of the Opera and buying cheap plastic souvenirs around the Zoésora Temple.

After wandering around the Ballet Theatre and the Museum of the Oceans at the new, modernesque harbour front, we take take the Metro Line 2, which follows the course of the oldest railway in all of Kojo, to an exquisite beach-side neighbourhood named after the two things that make it and the city great: the sun and the coast. Here, we join the high (and less-so-high) society of the city in sunbathing and swimming for a little while. Afterwards, we can take an Express bus back to our Hostel in the studenty Ōnagara neighbourhood. Every street bustles with cafes and restaurants, with little Boutiques as well as chain pharmacies. After a quick shower and nap, we are ready to head back out again.

As we walk south, the quirky vibe is replaced by a more sophisticated atmosphere in posh Thurn et Sasó. The Fóskiman Chigai-Showugan, Kojo’s most renown art museum (unless you ask people from the capital), is impressive enough from the outside, so we disdain its treasures and instead go for a picnic in the green lung of the city. Although dedicated to the Revolutionists of 1834, nowadays it is a source of tranquillity and chill for the Finkyásenians, who sometimes, between work, study, loud traffic and long summer nights, need to force themselves for a brief pause.

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So I’ve noticed that the in-map query feature (for a specific location) isn’t showing enclosing boundaries. For example, if I query anywhere on this view, the query results will show no enclosing features. However, if you zoom out, you can see that there are actually two boundaries that enclose this area: the country boundary UL22f and the city/municipal boundary Viskestads Kommun.

From trying this out, it seems like this feature hasn’t updated: areas that were in the country boundary before I edited the border here still will get the country returned on the query. However, newly added areas aren’t showing it (it’s been a couple of days since I edited these borders) even though they are inside the relation.

Any suggestions or help?

Thanks!

So for my first edit here I tried making a layout for a small town that I would eventually expand. I made it here, and if you zoom in at 200 meters specifically, it works. Any other zoom, it doesn’t; the town just disappears.

I don’t recall doing anything funny with tags, I just setup some roads and areas and then put the town label on the map using the guide on the old wiki. I used place:village.

Thanks!

Hello, I have recently came back to using Josm and decided to update to the newest version (18303) and found that the data downloading from OGF and imagery does not work. Though I have added the imagery according to the Wiki article, during download, the layer just shows red crosses. I also followed the wiki about the server connections for data downloading, whenever I download something, the result is an area with no data. I have tested multiple areas of download, and they all result in the same result. Image: Edit because of image not working originally

When I download map data on JOSM I can get the background image of the map but it keeps coming up saying “No data in this area” even though there is mapping there?

A “shibboleth” is a word or name that locals know how to pronounce but that outsiders or visitors don’t know about.

One excellent example of a real-world geographic shibboleth from my personal experience: when I first moved to Philadelphia (I lived there from 1995-1998), I had no idea that when locals said “Skookle” they meant “Schuykill” - as in the Schuyill River and parallel Schuykill Expressway. Another example is more subtle, but important: you can tell the outsiders in the the US Western states by how they pronounce the name of the state of Nevada. Westerners (and, specifically, Nevadans) pronounce the name of their state /nəvædə/, while outsiders (particularly Easterners and Brits) generally pronounce it closer to /nəvɑdə/, or else they make the mistake of assuming it deserves a fully etymological Spanish pronunciation, and render it as /nebada/. It is jarring on US TV shows like the old “CSI Las Vegas” when supposed locals mispronounce their state’s name.

Another interesting shibboleth from my current locale, is the tribal and cultural name Tlingit. This is the most numerous Native American group in Southeast Alaska, and is still a living and dynamic language community, too. When I first came here, I had no idea what people were talking about when they talked about “Klinkit” - turns out everyone (including the natives themselves) pronounce the name of the tribe and language this way. I guess under the influence of English, the /tl/ cluster of the language has evolved to one easier for English speakers: /kl/.

Anyway, the question I have for all of you is: what shibboleths exist in your OGF territory?

Makaska is full of little shibboleths, mostly due to the early exploration and naming by the Franquese, and then subsequent mispronunciation of those Franquese names by the Ingerish-speaking later settlers. This is meant to parallel the US West and Midwest, which is full of such “bad French” place names: Des Moines (“Duh Moin”!), Boise (“Boizy”!), etc.

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Since downloading the latest release of JOSM (18303), it returns bug warnings and does not load a number of plug-ins that are actually fairly useful. I have filed a bugreport to the compilers, but was wondering if anybody else had similar experiences.

Is it worthwhile reverting to an earlier release of JOSM?

We had unexpected longer downtime last night and this morning.

The render server had some problem (not really clear what went wrong), and needed to be restored from backup (not part of the plan), and then the ogf-carto render was reset (which had been the plan).

Just want to say thank you to the community for your patience.

Those who have been struggling with “render ghosts” - I think they are all fixed now. You can see one really good example here:

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For comparison, the ogf-topo render still has the ghosts (yes, topo needs maintenance work, I know!):

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Hello all! I was wondering what admin level a city district would be? Examples would be like Naka Ward in Yokohama.

I have noticed that since migration the minimap viewer in JOSM is no longer displaying the slippy map. it just shows the tile placeholders instead. I am wondering if I just have an incorrect setting in the preferences. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello everyone. I remember seeing somewhere a while ago that you could make mountains with tinfoil and then use some plugin to put it on JOSM, in order to make the mountain in OGF. Could someone explain how to do that?

I’m trying to start editing through JOSM, but it always fails to download the data…

The error message was :”Failed to upload data to or download data from ‘https://opengeofiction.net/api/0.6/map?bbox=160.2907192,2.8436768,160.4227551,2.9013968’ due to a problem with transferring data. Details (untranslated): Read timed out”

Do you guys have any idea where the problem is, and how should I solve it？Thanks.

Dear members of the OGF:

After several years as a member of this site I am now departing from a full time role as a member as I now focus on real life work as a baseball player, preparing to train harder to play in Major League Baseball in the United States of America

I am thankful to all of you whose work inspired me to be better in mapping and whose experiences are now inspiring me on my real life activities.

To all, thanks for letting me be a full time part of this site. I hope for the best for OGF for the years to come.

John

Wiki page: OpenGeofiction:Regular scheduled maintenance

After some discussion among the admin team, we have decided to set up “regularly scheduled maintenance” for the OGF website.

Every Thursday, 4 AM - 6 AM UTC, the server will be unavailable for edits. It might be available for surfing the map or reading diaries or such, but no guarantees.

We will use this time to troubleshoot issues, make sure the server is healthy, and do a weekly reboot to clear out any memory leak problems.

I’m sure there will be users for whom this schedule is inconvenient. I’m sorry - we have a wide distribution of users in many, many time zones, and so it was bound to be inconvenient for some of you.

Local times:

• US west coast: 8pm - 10pm PST Wednesday
• US east coast: 11pm Wednesday - 1am EST Thursday
• UTC: 04:00 - 06:00 UTC Thursday
• Central Europe: 05:00 - 07:00 CET
• China: 12:00 - 14:00 CST Thursday

While we will be unveiling a new territory request process once the wiki relaunches, in the meantime the admin team is now accepting territory requests in Archanta, Tarephia, and West Uletha only. Territory requests in Antarephia and East Uletha continue to be suspended.

All territory requests must be approved by the admin team before editing, and we require that mappers have an established multi-day edit history before having a territory assigned. We also recommend including some basic plans for the territory as part of the request. More information on our territory assignment procedures are available here.

As a reminder, there are also plenty of collaborative projects for mappers to participate in instead of (or while waiting for) a dedicated territory of their own.

Happy mapping!

-Mayor

Hi all, I have started mapping a bit again after a hiatus. Due to my inactivity “my” country has been re-assigned, but no worries I am happy to start from scratch!

I’ve started creating a couple of towns in this area, one along an existing highway I extended a bit, and one connected to the first town only by rail.

My goal eventually is to have a country or region that is entirely car-free. If someone shares that goal I am happy to collaborate on it.

Happy mapping!

I am detecting problems with the uploads of changesets. Changeset 1139474 is to do with the relocation of the Utterland city of Galmosen to the east by 13 km. As can be seen on the map, there is a section of railway at a crazy angle, which is NOT shown as such on JOSM. Changeset 1134839 contains the deletion of several primary roads and railways in Utterland, which (again) are not shown as deleted on the map. Today, I discovered that changeset 1134798, uploaded by bhj867 served to delete parts of a river that forms the border between Isztianorszag and Utterland, following the deletion of a very large multipolygon of landuse=forest that stretched from Utterland to Pretany. bhj867 has informed me that he did not download data from Utterland. Does anyone else have similar glitches, and could this be looked into. Thanks.

Can we make a FSA state that is based off of New Jersey in the United States and makes fun of New Jersey’s road infrastructure? As much as I want to make fun of New Jersey, I will keep it realistic (you also physically cannot make road infrastructure similar to New Jersey without actually making fun of them).