Having looked once again at Commonia, I got slightly depressed. (You’ll feel the same way if you take a look) So I decided to express my depression by working on the Commonian wiki article. I’ve added an ‘economy’ section, which talks about illegal Commonian activity including human trafficking, forced labour, the Commonian drug industry and the Commonian Confederation’s weapons exports. I’ve also talked about the AN’s failure to control illegal activity inside Commonia. Perhaps this is a link to how we cannot control what is mapped inside Commonia.

I’ve got some questions to ask you. Feel free to answer any of them.

1. Has your country, rebel group or terrorist organisation bought any illegal Commonian weapons? (You can say yes, even if your country doesn’t admit it)
2. Does your country have criminal links to Commonia?
3. Have any companies admitted to using Commonian labour to make its stuffs? (You can say yes even if the company doesn’t admit it)
4. Has your country ever bought raw materials in Commonia?
5. Does your country have companies operating in Commonia?
6. Is there an OGF equivalent to the fairtrade standard or a World Trade Organisation?

If you’ve got points you would like to discuss, leave them below if you wish.

Is there such a thing as the E-road network in OGF? If not, is someone interested in creating that system?

I understand that Gobras City is a blue area and anyone can feel free to edit whatever they please. I think going forward there needs to be some communication regarding edits to other’s work. For the last two years I made it a habit not to make changes to any previous work no matter how it looked and if I did it would be very minor. I really didn’t mind when half of my schools were renamed, airports turned into bases, removing the park background of the zoo etc. What does bother me is the several hours of work I did near Sky Point Boulevard & Lamong Road. A lot of the area is now changed without any notice. If someone felt the traffic pattern did not work or they did not like it then send me a message. One of the reasons I like Gobras City so much is the interaction with other users and their work and they way it is starting grow like a real city flaws and all.

Cleared entry.

First Harbor celebrated it’s 3rd OGF anniversary today. Three years went by pretty quickly. I have been building small monuments since September 3rd, 2015 here in First Harbor.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=19/34.40508/144.13254

911 - 1st village created in Southern part of Karamskie Lake. Name of village is Perwa. 923 - There is 17 more villages nearby of Perwa. 942 - First King of Perwa is forcing people from every village about 70 km far from Capital to become his property. 1032 - 1450 - war with tribes living nearer of sea. 1451 - 1512 - time of peace and development of Perwian Kingdom. Nov. 13 1512 - Enemous army burned Capital City and 4327 villages in south- western part of Kingdom. They took this area 1 year later. King had to escape Capital City and Run Away to safer villages. He stayed in Village named Sawra. 1513 - Sawra became city and Capital of Kingdom. 1645 - Sawra bigger than Perwa. 1919 - First democratic electron after death of last King Piotr XXVIII. 1920 - Changed name of Country to Karamska Republika (Karamsk’s Republic) April 15 1936 - Agarderia started war with Karamska Republika, breaking border wall 24 km in the east from Weerhay (Werlanowice). They took this area after 1,5 years of fighting. 1939 - Karamsk’s Republic changed system of law and became Federal Republic. 1940 - In eastern part of country Created Federal Area of Restricted Enter. In 1936 Agarderian Army used nuclear bombs there. 15.01.2015 - Changed name and law system to “Karamska Unia Narodów (Karamsk’s Union of Nations)”, what changed relations with neighbours, by giving more right to minorities in all parts of country 2016 - Opened first road between Karamska Unia narodów and Agarderia.

Seriously considering deleting my work and startign from scratch. Not really happy with how things are progressing Maybe I’m just being too critical, but somehow everything just seems off to me. I’d keep the bay and my main east- west thoroughfare, but everything else is fair game. I like some of what I’ve done, but my lack of straight roads and square corners (and I’d also add lack of scale) is hurting my opinion of my work thus far. It doesn’t help looking at what others have done is also kinda bumming me out.

Two things to announce:

1) I have created an OpenGeoFiction Pinterest board - it’s called simply OpenGeoFiction. Going to post all the Featured Pictures and articles. This could generate some interest and perhaps get quality articles and pictures to a wider audience. You will get nagged to sign in but it’s viewable even if you don’t want to. Anybody with Pinterest who wants to collaborate message me.

https://www.pinterest.com/sarepava/opengeofiction/

2) I invite users to place foreign businesses in the city of Känton, Karolia which is nearing completion. Message me for details.

Hello, I am a new user who has just started developing my country of Tengappei in central Antarephia. I’m currently just doing the coastline, major rivers and geographical features.

I’ve just completed the start to the wiki article and I would like your help to check over my stats, especially language. My current plan is to have a Japanese-English mix because I am half Japanese, half English (but I can’t really write in Japanese). After some research, I decided Nihonish is probably the correct language, and it is the same as the nearby country Paxtar. However, I’m not sure what the nearby countries ‘Heben’, ‘Hidara’, and ‘Koberro’ languages are (especially Koberro with that really long name). I’ve even asked by fluent Japanese sister to help and she couldn’t work it out.

Another question I have is the colonial history of Antarephia. Which countries have said they were colonized? I understand that it is my own choice but I would like to base it off the surroundings and the information on the wiki wasn’t very detailed. Any other feedback, such as on my coastlines or climate, is welcome. With climate, countries nearby, like Koberro, are marked as a cold climate, despite my own research which suggested countries near me should have a fairly warm, Mediterranean perhaps, climate with very little snow. Thank you.

EDIT: I just realized the post below me was on climate by nearby country Paxtar, who gave it a lower climate that I did. My country is on a warmer ocean current but I should probably lower the temperature a bit (or possibly Paxtar raise the temperature a bit- real life equivalents have average temperature of 20C).

Cleared entry.

Hi there! New member here, I just claimed by first territory a few days ago and intend to build it into a big single-party communist state called the People’s Republic of Turonia, because we don’t seem to have very many around at the moment.

So logically I’m doing the natural features first, mainly the coastline. I absolutely butchered the scaling the first time (I had a building over 5km long…) but I redid my coast and I was wondering if anyone knowledgeable or experienced could give me some feedback on it. The country is labelled as Turonia and it’s on the eastern coast of Tarephila.

My inspiration is Eastern Canada, with my own sort of spin on it. I have several large “Great Lakes” some distance from the coast as well as a large river inspired by the St. Lawrence. The capital city is going to be situated in the bay near the centre and spread across the islands situated within it. That idea was inspired by Montreal, but on a much larger scale and in a bay.

ANYWAYS that’s about it. Is there any advice you can offer me in improving my coastline? I want to have details like rivers and lakes ideally, since it makes for interesting city locations and designs.

Yay! My South Bay City is finally starting to take shape in a form I’m (so far) happy with.

A problem I have is that seeing as I live in the second flattest state in the US, I tend to think more in terms of a central grid system, and not with spurs and winding strrets. As my city’s metro area expands to the north, however, it will but up against some foothills, and non-straight roads will be a thing here.

… Or a visual illustration of the complexity of highway junctions in the real-world due to geographical, cultural and financial constraints.

http://www.c82.net/work/?id=350 - Interchange Choreography

(art too, based off OSM dataset)

I’ve not editing so much since… uhmm… I really don’t know. I updated JOSM, and proably that fixed some problems with OGF editing. Sincerelly I don’t like Potlatch2 (where is the scale rule in that app?). And also I edited the OGF Wiki.

I’ve been updating the coastline of Aŭstrasuno Tero, principally in Malvarma Rokoj, were I created a strange and weird geography. I like it too much: islands, islands, islets… and more islands with a sharp and broken coastlines.

By the way, is OGF in social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Reditt or Tumblr?

Not long ago, I read an entry about websites in OGF. That gave me an idea.: Why not making them real?

KOOPER.TK

I remembered I have an un-used website, it’s called Kooper.tk , and I tried to make a social network there. We can use it to make real websites with OGF-related content. We can make functional websites or just plain landing pages looking like real websites.

Why?

Just for fun. I don’t think why someone would like to read a website about how great life in Kalm is or one about how to move to Ostermark, but it can be pretty exciting to build a life-like website about your country, with even your own country domain.

Your own country domain

An OGF website address would look like “http://kooper.tk/livinginvinnmark” , but you can link to it as livinginvinnmark.vk.

Is it a good idea? Would you collaborate?

Comment below, please.

Inspired by the Geovision Song Festival 2016 and my Wiwaxian contestant Sibyl, I’ve written wikipedia articles on two vaguely related things:

• A global TV show called Popstar Factory with contestants competing to become popstars and various country editions. Feel free to add your own country’s version of the show or let me know here and I’ll add it myself! Also, I didn’t write which country originated the show. Wiwaxia I feel is too small and insignificant a country to have started it - any other bigger and more culturally dominant countries with major TV production companies (that have wiki articles about them!) interested in being the originator in 2002?

• An aid event called Concert for Commonia with aid going to displaced Commonians. Feel free to add singers and pop stars from your country to the list (and expand on the article if you want) or let me know here and I’ll add it myself.

Ventria (Wiki and map) is a small land-locked state that I recently “cut out” of Estiansian territory and turned to a separate state.

In Tarott (Wiki and map - bad mapping quality due to old vector imports), Kalm, there is a large Ventrian community and also a “Ventrian quarter” (Ventrisches Viertel) that has its own S-Bahn (suburban rail) station. Tarott was designed before OGF started and I came up with some cultures surrounding Kalm. And now I found a place for the Ventrians.

But: I haven’t any names yet for cities and other geographical features - and I didn’t decide what official language Ventria has.

So my question is now: What language for Ventria? What is your opinion?

It is surrounded by many Ulethan (“European”) languages, Kalmish (German), Estiensian (Hungarian), Garlish (Romanian) a bit further away, Franquese and Vinnish in Vinnmark, Welsich (a bit like Dutch?) - there are many more, as you know can find out using the map.

I’m open for any language, but probably a Ulethan (“European”) one would be great. Of course, a fantasy language “between” other European languages could also be nice. Or Ventria could have an official language that is spoken in Europe but not the “main official” language of any country.

I’m looking forward to your suggestions.

Happy mapping!

joschi81

Following up hmniak’s diary entry about ‘Geovision’, I saw a comment that there aren’t any other international competitions, other than sporting ones.

In fact there are a few:

The Martanidia Prizes are international prizes in Science, Medicine, Literature and Peace - equivalents of the Nobel Prizes.

The Jko Prize is an international art prize - equivalent of the Turner Prize, but extended internationally.

There is also the Cruz y Lopez prize, a prize for architecture.

Maybe there are others…

Happy mapping Udi

Currently I use a self-made template to link map positions in wiki-articles.

The following options are available:

{{MER-coordinates … name of template

name = … displayed name

logo = … displayed logo (link to file) or “no”, if no logo

zoom =

latitude =

longitude = … coordinates and zoom

node = … or node number

}}

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Template:MER-coordinates

Is it also useful for your articles?

Hi. I’m new here and I need help with my city. It’s in Commonia and it is next to City of Charlington.

Thanks, Sam The Wox