I just started work on my new country I’m calling Aiau, and I just finished work on my forests and rivers. Does what I have so far look realistic? If not, please help to make it more realistic.

Thanks!

I am now reopening chances for editing memberships in Omniville!

Also, I would like YOU guys for 1. a WEDway PeopleMover system in the Omniville capital area (Omniville City) 2. Rivers and mountains (geography) in Omniville 3. Developing a railway and road network in the whole Omniville area

Please contact me if you would like to apply to join editing Omniville.

What is the GSF about?

The GSF is an allusion to the Eurovision Song Contest, which should at least be familiar to all Europeans. Basically, it’s a competition to showcase your country’s artists. Of course, the contest also has a winner, which is determined by televoting (in our case by random principle) . Every country gives between 12 to 1 points to their favourite song. Obviously, the country with the most points wins.

Why do we need the GSF?

Browsing through the wiki you can find tons of sports-related competitions but nothing focusing on culture, let alone music. I think the GSF is a fun way to introduce something new to this platform.

How do I apply?

You can apply by commenting the following:

• Country representing
• Artist/Band/…
• Song title
• Genre
• Language sang in

An example:

• ABC-Country
• Best Band Ever
• Best Song Ever
• Pop-Rock
• Ingerish

When and where will the contest be held?

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I’m really loving this. Still trying to learn JOSM, and am making progress in that regard, but still mostly using ID.

When I requested a country, I requested a fairly large one. An admin talked me out of it, and I can see his point. With all of the editing and re-editing I have done, working in a much larger area would have driven me nuts.

Anyway, come visit Quebertia. It’s very much a work in progress (as are all nations, I guess)

Recently it hit me- how come do we not have any (relevant) fictional web pages in OGF yet? Well, I spent the past few days brainstorming intensively and here are some ideas I came up with.

A search engine

There are plenty of them in the real world, but I think we’ll be fine with just one for now. As a test of pronounceability, I always try to use them in the sentence “If you don’t know, just ___ it!”

• Lokker - playing around with “look up”
• Ding - obvious Bing reference. don’t like this one very much because “ding it” sounds like a substitute swear word (like saying “dang it” instead of “damn it”)
• Najdu.db (pronounced “nye-do”) - an all-Drabantian search engine, in translation “I will find.db”

A video site

Look, the office workers in your countries just need to have a website to go to, procrastinating watching endless cat fail compilations.

• Playday - well the videos are so good, you’ll want to watch them all day

Social networks

Before you go like “ugh who even uses facebook in 2016 anymore,” remember there are soccer moms and lorry drivers in the OGF world too.

• Friender - a facebook-ish thing
• Beeper? Chirper (haa who else hated that b** bird in Cities:Skylines)? - a twitter-ish thing
• Snapdat! - yeah this one is not very original, but its teenage users are here for the dog filter and not the name, duhh
• Blurda - “blurter,” a place for anyone to blurt out their feelings and opinions in (real-life tumblr)

And also the most needed:

• Tender. Timber. Tinner. - just whatever

Other

• Pokemon Go. I am not a player or a Pokemon fan so I just have no idea
• Memes.

Write your ideas and suggestions!

Hey, I’ve signed up over a year ago but haven’t really been that active since then. However, the past few weeks/months I tried improving my country Elhádhon.

I’m rather proud of my achievements around the area of Andreassjäda which is supposed to resemble a rather fertile area with focus on agricultural use. It provides the rather arctic country with food. However, before getting more into detail and work (which I plan to do the next few weeks), I’d like to receive some feedback from you guys.

Thanks in advance, Hmniak

• How can I get a grey map (one of these used to show the location of countries, just like in Wikipedia)?

• Can I actually edit the topo map and make it look like a real topo map?

Agarderia is undergoing a civil war, which has been largely won by the new government established by Glaster with the aid of the AN. The source of the conflict originated in the 20th century which is outlined below.

1. Agarderia was a right wing democratic nation which transitioned to a dictatorship in the 1930s. It then became very close to the Commonian fascist government.
2. Commonia propped up Agarderia against communism for much of the early 40s. A failed communist revolt lead to the displacement of the native Agarderian government with one directly controlled by Commonia in January 1945.
3. A large communist revolution in spring 1945 lead to a year long civil war. Glastian communists invaded and occupied east Agarderia, depriving the fascists of their fuel storages in the country.
4. The communists had won the war by 1946 and had set up a new government. In 1947, a large number of Glastian communist troops and civilians fled to the still occupied Glastian Agarderia.
5. Glastian Agarderia was made a semi-autonomous body in the new Socialist Agarderia. Glastian Agarderia housed Glaster’s communist government-in-exile.
6. After crippling economic trouble and a bout of hyperinflation in the mid 1980s, Agarderian communism ended in 1986 with a transferral to democracy.
7. Failing to address the problem with Agarderian neo-communists based in Glastian Agarderia, the country descended into civil war once again in 1998. From 2003 to 2007, Agarderia was an AN mandate.
8. Glaster and Agarderia have managed to cut off GA’s access to the sea. Most trade with the rogue nation has stopped, but owing to its small population, it is able to minimally support itself.
9. Agarderia has decided to leave the country in isolation rather than deciding to invade it. Currently both the outlawed Agarderian communist party and the Glastian communist government-in-exile are stationed there.

Some possible points to discuss:

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The Isle & City Games are my creation to provide a sporting arena for small nation states, city states and islands who wouldn’t be able to host a Geolympiad event and who aren’t all that competitive in the medals table.

Founded in 2000, the first ICG were in Myrcia in 2004. The games are bi-annual and take place in the spring, around late-April. The events are a scaled-down version of the Geolympics. The host nation selects 25 events to host which can range from sailing to decathlon to lacrosse.

Any nation of under 2 million can compete. Any city with a population of under 2 million can enter as a city team. Any semi-autonomous island or group of islands with a population of under 2 million can enter as an island team.

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Appreciate your thoughts: http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Talk:OGF:Gobras_City#Rivers

Thanks/L

The Kingdom of Carpathia now has a new flag. How do you guys feel about it?

Hey there JOSM users, so the question is simple, what JOSM plugins would you recommend for OGF Mapping? Share your recommendations below!

I rememebered yesterday a page on the wiki or an article on the User Diaries that gave a bunch of country names and said if they were relevant on the world or not, and also a sample sentence like “Spiders? We have them, but we don’t care”.

I can’t find it!!

Uletha is flooded again. Using the very handy coastline info map I think I’ve found the problem, which is located in Raiden along this stretch of bridge here. Before any changes are made, can anyone back me up on this?

I am inviting you to contact me (message/comment) if you would like to have a direct ship line to the port of Norfield, port that connects Montran with the rest of the world.

Just write name and coordinates of your port and I will do rest of the job (drawing line…)

William

Just a small sidenote- huge thanks to Azaz 0913 and Bstn for creating the railway line template. It’s one of my favorite features on Wikipedia and I’m so glad we have it here now. Keep up the good work, gents!

:( Isolated by a vast wilderness of micro states and quiet neighbors, with a history that is now partially a fairy tale.

Using the power of MS paint, screenshots and the bucket fill tool, I have assembled a map of the entire OGF world.

What is it?

It is a very large map of the available OGF world on ‘standard’ layer, taken at zoom level 4.

Can I use it?

Yes you can. You do not need any permission. If you want to update the map for a new country or changed borders, ask me please. I don’t want any portions misaligned!

What is it for?

I would think this would just be for general reference, country size comparisons and draft maps for very large features like mountains or international organisations.

how many people do you think realistically would live in stamford

Does anyone have problems deleting or editing existing stuff? Both in iD and Potlach I can’t delete or e.g. change the size or form of structures… I can add new things though… O.o