I was fascinated by the story of the Catacombs of Paris and how they came to be. There was once a cemetery in Paris known as the Cemetery of the Innocents that I plan to recreate an OGF version of in St. Richards. It was so full of bodies that they didn’t fully decompose and they used large fat deposits for soap. That got me thinking of an organized plague that could have ravaged our world at one time and how that could have effected our histories. I would like some input on this from other members to see what they think. It could be one plague, or a series of them. How would it have affected the population of the planet, and to what extent? Let’s discuss. My Version of the Cemetery

I wanted to change the shoreline and I know what to do and not to do but I just don’t know how to use it

Hey Guys, I have just built 1/2 of my first airport ever! Anyways, the airport is up for business and I encourage you guys to open routes to it! Just leave a comment with the name of the airline and destination!

Hello everyone,

I’m planning to add an OSRM-based routing service to OGF, but due to the fact that a lot of people don’t connect their highways with the ones of the neighboring countries there are a lot of so called “routing islands”. Also there are some problems with motorways, the best are the ones that are really oneways and have proper tagging at the junctions (highway=motorway_junction), otherwise stuff like this happens: http://imgur.com/a/EVaGr [These were just random markers placed on the map, no one should feel bad/called out/blamed by these pictures] If i should test your highways in advance just leave a comment.

Kind regards

Martin

My original post seems to have been lost to the sands of time so…

I want to get back to the topic of the thread: MOLBURG/MOLÍBOR/MOLIBÓRZ/МОЛИБУРГ

I need your feedback for Molburg. Before i go further and mess anything up, and need your opinions on: location, layout, buildings, street layout(IMPORTANT), etc…

i am planning on the population to be around 500,000

I am really proud of my progress so far, but i am in need of opinions.

Happy New Year, and Happy Mapping Guys

mfn

You see this is my first time mapping on OGF and I can’t find the blue areas where I can edit and I don’t know how to do anything :/. Messing around by trying to add roads and whatnot (lots of fails up ahead) can teach me otherwise help will be appreciated.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/40.9986/132.8137

Palaway 3 has been extended. P78 is introduced. More new towns and roads have been added.

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Palaseskia

What do you think of Palaseskia so far?

GAMEPlanoria Bank Street, across from Seaside Apartments. Event date: March 3rd, 2017 at 11:00AM PST (Planorian Standard Time) This is just what i’m gonna be posting for now (EVENTS)

Hey Everyone! I just made a cover for the Costan Passport, What are your opinions?

I hope everyone is enjoying their new year, so far.

I did a lot of work for last month’s challenge, trying to fix some mistakes in Mahhal, mostly related to climate and population density. I started big, by moving Tárrases to a new, lower latitude at the northwest end of the Mahhalian Archipelago. This was a giant step, from a data standpoint, since the island is quite detailed. It required changing the coordinates on almost 400,000 nodes. Probably it was single largest edit ever on OGF. JOSM made it all go smoothly, however.

After that big start, I worked pretty consistently on trying to clean up various aspects of Mahhal to improve climate realism - rearranging coastlines, moving some towns, downgrading cities, updating wiki articles. Grading my own efforts, I’d give myself a “B.” How did everyone else do on the challenge?

This month, for the new year, I’m going to return to something I tried before, but in a different way.

Luciano’s Mapper’s Challenge #10 - January, 2017 - Give and Take

Back in July, 2016, I gave a challenge to map something in a “blue” country. That actually didn’t go so well, at least from my perspective, as it exposed some of the major issues we have with “blue” territories in general, especially Commonia. Those problems have still not been resolved.

However, recently I have been impressed with some innovations by other users in the area of trying to improve collaboration. PColumbus73 made a collaboration page for Drevet modelled on (but improving upon) the old collaboration page I’d made for Ardisphere. And Mstr made a page “offering mapping services”. These are really great ideas. What I hope to achieve with this challenge is to encourage this, further.

The challenge is to collaborate somewhere, with someone. It could be in a purple country. It could be in someone’s privately owned country, like a neighbor or someone you already know that you work well with. I’ve done this a number of times with various individual users.

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Hello and Happy New Year 2017!

It has been one year since I got my own territory to edit. After one year the results of more than 300 editions are visible, and the differences are completely notorious.

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Hello!

It’s been nearly a year since I joined OGF. I’ve made (I think) a huge progress - from overscaled town somewhere in Gobrassanya, thru Antharia, which I wasn’t really happy with to Shilesia, to which i moved after dropping Antharia (currently the country is owned by stjur who’s doing a great job, keep it up!). And after at least 5 redevelopments of my country I am satisfied with how it looks. Now, what are my plans for future:

• Expanding Ligota so it doesn’t look like it was cut in half, BUT not making it the biggest city in the world (it might happen, as i live in the biggest metropolitan area of my country, AND I love big cities), I will try to keep it maybe on 500k citizens maybe.
• Adding some mountains and rivers to the country - don’t have any particular concept yet, but we’ll get to that.
• Expanding wiki coverage - that means: writing more about companies in Shilesia, maybe an international organisation with headquarters in Ligota (I think i’ve got an idea for that). Besides that, I want also to focus on history, so it will make sense AND will be compatibile with the history of other nations in the region.
• More involvment in Midistland, recently I’ve been doing something here, but I think that the country needs more details and good mapping (by this I mean “not newbie-messups”).
• The biggest Shilesia-related project is currently the Shilesian railway company, I plan on making a few long-distance international connections (I plan for it to be the competition for flights from Ligota-Alfred Airport). I also want to make at least one short article for every station in Shilesia (a bit like it’s done on Polish Wikipedia, where every station, even the least important one in some eastern-polish village is covered) with a basic timetable (company, stations, frequency, rolling-stock).

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Hello Guys!

Hope you all have a great 2017, and that you do things that no one has ever done!

I only joined officially in like October, but i believe i have made huge progress (as well as mistakes) when working within Litvania. I have worked primarily on roads, railways, small towns, larger towns and a city, and geography. All these i believe have improved my skill in editing the Opengeofiction maps, as well as using them for editing OSM (i also contribute there).

I would like to thank certain people for there special efforts to help me and to help me understand certain things here at OGF.

@eklas - You helped me alot with getting Litvania into JOSM, which i was really happy about, however now things are okay, and it works when downloading and editing areas from the OGF map. You also did a great deal at the beginning, when i only joined, you sent me links to FAQ’s, you answered certain questions etc… I am really greatful for all your efforts in helping me to get accustommed to OGF.

@Luciano - You helped me with the video you posted on Youtube about how to use JOSM with OGF. It did great help, and now i know how to use JOSM a bit more.

@Demuth - You welcomed my concession idea, which i was expecting to be rejected violently by most other people.

Everyone else who helped me with thise magical site i am really thankful to, as a year before now, i was starting tomthink about creating one myself.

So yeah, thanks to you all. I am really appreaciative, and greatful for all you efforts.

Hi out there, fellow map-o-holics!

it’s been a pretty short year, and many of you brought forward their OGF countries a lot in those 365 days. Me not, unfortunately. I was inactive for at least 75% of the year and Norðurland still is a quite empty country. This country is so freakin’ huge (well, I knew this in the first place…), I guess it will take years to fill it up with life to a satisfying amount. And the more I work with OGF and the more I come to the details, the more I recognize how hard I struggle with those details.

However, I was more active in the last quarter of the year. And for 2017, I hope that I will spend more hours here with you than last year. I admire your creativity - lots of ambitious projects on the map and beside. So beautiful to see such an active, friendly, thriving and creative commutinty evolve! We have a real nice project here (If you didn’t recognized so far ;-) ).

During the last month, I mostly fixed errors from very early edits (still way more to fix here) and refined things that were roughly sketched in the first place. I finally started do work on Norðurland’s still very edgy coastline with the help of a graphics tablet, GIMP and Inkscape. Things move on slowly, but they move.

At the moment, I follow 2 larger projects:

• Coast refinement in north-eastern Norðurland, with many fjords, islands and lakes

• Since today, Norðurland is a little bit smaller, because there is a new citizen in town: the country with the ineffable name of Ruhtinaskunta Yleväkivet (the principality of Yleväkivet) lies between Norðurland and Slavonia. The spoken language is Vinnic. This language is the remains of an older, mostly dead or further evolved language family that was spoken around the Vinn sea. Vinnic is based on - surprise - Finnish.

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The Edetanea Convention or Edetanea Convention on Wetlands is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands and their resources. It is named after the city of Edetanea in Castilea Archantea, where the Convention was signed in 1872. This treaty came into force in 1875 (it was the first modern treaty between nations aimed at conserving natural resources). Since then, states from all the world’s geographic regions have acceded to become “Contracting Parties”.

Every four years, representatives of the Edetanea Convention Contracting Parties meet as the Conference of the Wetlands (COW), the policy-making organ of the Edetanea Convention which adopts resolutions and recommendations to administer the work of the Edetanea Convention and improve the way in which the Parties are able to implement its objectives (“the maintenance of the ecological character of the wetlands, achieved through the implementation of ecosystem approaches, within the context of sustainable development, for the benefit of humankind”).

Under the Edetanea Convention, a wide variety of natural and human-made habitat types ranging from rivers to coral reefs can be classified as wetlands. Wetlands include billabongs, coral reefs, fens, lakes, mangroves, marshes, mudflats, peat bogs, salt marshes, swamps, or bodies of water - whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary. Water within these areas can be static or flowing; fresh, brackish or saline; and can include inland rivers and coastal or marine water to a depth of six metres at low tide. There are even underground wetlands. Wetlands provide fundamental ecological services and are regulators of water regimes and sources of biodiversity at all levels - species, genetic and ecosystem. Wetlands constitute a resource of great economic, scientific, cultural, and recreational value for the community and play a vital role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.

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Hi all,

I hope you will have (or had) a good start into the new year!

Here’s my last addition to OGF in 2016: The town of Henlauch in the south-western suburban region of Nerschach, the capital of Kalm.

Looking forward to many new places in OGF in 2017!

Happy mapping, joschi81

Hello mappers!

It’s been a while since I posted my last update on the city of Trevers. And since it’s the end of the year, I figured it would be nice show what I’ve been doing this year. I wanted to do a lot this year, but because my personal life was very busy I didn’t come really that far with what was on the planning.

Nevertheless have been working all year around Trevers, and it’s not finished at all. Yes, I’ve made some significant and noticeable changes and I’ve restuctured and organised I’ve completely changed the forest area Monument Hills – which to me looked very weird in the middle of the city – for a Monument Park, which is very large and empty at the moment, but will be filled up more when I start working on detailing the surrounding suburbs.

I’ve been working on San Mateo (wiki), the seaside resort city next to Trevers. The structure of how it will look is already very visible. There are also some parts of Starford mapped in more detail, most of it is just roads yet. A suburb that is already mapped extensively is Fletcher, which is located underneath the airport.

For the most part I’ve been working on detail. Some highlights are the Seneca Stadium, a sport and event venue which is planned to be used somewhere in Geolympic history. It features a sunken logistics lane (which is actually on ground level) and a large plaza and parking garage beneath the stadium.

Also, I’ve been working on the Unity Station (wiki), the main railway station of the city. The station building now includes a mall and the area now features a new square with decoration, bus station and various services.

There have been many updates to larger railway stations like Concordia, but also Fletcher International Airport railway station (wiki). This one was more difficult because I had to map under all the existing features. The airport itself is also an absolute highlight for me. Also some subway and bus stations are ready to be used in the next year.

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So, I’ve recently done some editing in these small islands I’ve names the Sukarno Isles, and I’d like some feedback on them. I mainly modified the airport and created a small recreational nature reserve.

Seems like cities are now marked with a dot on the map, interesting. Anymore updates?

And the results are in!

Thank you for all your submissions to the 2016 Golden Delta Film Festival!

All the ideas for films were really impressive! I had a hard time choosing among the many entries, which one would win each category! I did my best to share the awards accordingly. Every user who submitted a film won at least one award for their films.

The winner for best film was Wiwaxia’s The Unspeakable Distance of the Stars given the ammount of details and affort out on the wiki page by its creator, Demuth!

I’m including here images with the winners, that can be seen in the wiki page: http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/2016_Golden_Delta_Film_Festival

I’m also including the countries that did not win this year as winners in previous years, check it out and edit as you like: http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Golden_Delta_Film_Festival

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