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Posted by Litvania on 28 November 2016 in English.

Question:

Do any of you have paper or digital maps of your country; or the OGF world itself, on paper or .svg, .png or .jpg files?

After looking at an Oxford Students Atlas i had the idea of having one for our world.

I know however, that our world is continuosly being changed, and is currently not even close to started. This would pose a problem, however i could update it time to time.

Your thoughts?

Location: UL19ab, UL19a

The OGF World is full of wonderful features such as this, this and these as well.

All of these have been accomplished using determination and effort, and have a really effective turnout.

@EMKLI mentioned this idea before!

However, it would be nice if we could take more inspiration from the real world. A good example of this would be the island stretching from Norðurland to ER137/138/139. They could stretch more, in fact why not have some sort of “Aleutian Islands” in that area. This would create a “Hesperic Ring of Fire”.

Or for example the South. Why not have a sort of Antarctica like land mass, that could be a collaborative territory, but basically that would make it divided by the different users’ countries.

Comment for more ideas!

(@eklas i am currently on a ‘virtual holiday’ in Letěnín😀)

Location: Kateřinské pole, Skalka, Letěnín, okres Letěnín, Drabantia
Posted by Inkyatari on 25 November 2016 in English.

I’m looking at my main city, and it appears to me that the hills / national recreation area that I have near my city makes the area I have slated for my downtown pretty dang small. I’m thinking about moving the main downtown area to the east of the Gottlieb river. It seems to me there’d be more traffic over there.

The elementary school I created is potentially too big, so I’m going to reduce it in size, and make it multi floor.

When I laid out the grid system in my city, I used 500 ft as the length and width of an average block. After a while curiosity got the better of me, and I looked up what the size of an average block in the grid-riddled city of Chicago is, and it turns out each side is an average of 660 feet. I’m going to continue to use 500 ft. as the default for my first two communities, but am considering 660 for any future development.

I’m now considering putting some barrier islands along the northern shore of my country, and developing some seaside resort communities there.

Location: Dutertre, AR040
Posted by Sarepava on 24 November 2016 in English.

I have recently started experiencing a highly irritating problem in JOSM - objects are randomly rotated without my moving them. It appears to be occurring when I switch to another window, and causes massive damage to my map. I have been very careful to check everything is deselected when panning, scaling or rotating anything, yet the problem persists.

Any advice?

Posted by Myrcia on 22 November 2016 in English.

This month I’ve been working on outer Dunwic, some farm land but also the satellite eards (boroughs) of Washinburh and Burdwic.

Washinburh - http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/56.3564/19.2950

Universitet Washinburh - http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/56.35943/19.30157

Burdwic - http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/56.34238/19.18348

I think the Dunwic urban area is starting to make sense now, to feel like a real and full city and not just a collection of half-finished neighbourhoods. I am always interested to know what people think, in particular any constructive criticism.

Posted by wangi on 22 November 2016 in English.

It’s taken ages, but the first pass of the Albedeer University campus in Gobras City is complete… Next up is more shops & facilities, but that can wait a bit. And the far west of the campus…

If you know where to look there’s still a fair bit of the original plan by Wal there.

L/

http://www.opengeofiction.net/#map=15/20.6448/86.6573

Location: Albedeer (Ward 104a), Gobras City, Capital, Gobrassanya
Posted by BelpheniaProject on 20 November 2016 in English. Last updated on 30 November 2016.

Hello, fellow mappers!

I forgot to say that October 2016 marked my second year anniversary of mapping on OpenGeofiction. When I first joined OGF in 2014, I started out mapping in AR901 (before it was named Rhododactylia) with the city of Eriwynne, and eventually, I got my chance to own UL016 (Belphenia) and started mapping my first city there with Shadowsnow City. Two years later, I completed my island country, Erzaleria, and I am in the process of developing Maydien and most areas in Belphenia.

And now, this is my response to Luciano’s Mapper’s Challenge for November, so I had been working on the Mikasatshi rivershed lately, and I got a chance to practice making a delta at the south end of the Mikasatshi River in southwestern Belphenia for my first time. Now that I am planning to make the rivers of Belphenia to be more realistic as possible.

So how do you like my new development?

Location: Momokino, Belphenia