Hey there, sadly my damned laptop broke so I wont be able to join you fellas for some time. I’m already missing OGF even though its been not even a week.

Hear from you some time, hope to get that fixed ASAP.

Happy mapping kingfries

There are a few free-trade agreements such as the Gobras Peninsula Free Trade Agreement. However, can there be a List of Free Trade Agreements, so countries can participate to improve their economy?

The recent discussion on martinum4’s diary entry regarding whether the rules of OSM should be used on OGF with the same emphasis and the fact that a lot of things done by me in my country, Neo Delta, for almost 2 years now, have never followed those rules, kept me thinking about my place in this community. I am an international relations analyst and, as much as I’m interested in urban geography, urban planning and projects such as OSM, I’m not familiar with any of those areas. I’d love to have time to study and explore those fields, but, unfortunately, I’m unable to do so at the moment. I know opinions regarding this issue vary, as Luciano and other users commented, but I can’t stop thinking about the fact that I lack the basic knowledge that is needed to be a member of OGF and that really bothers me. As joschi81 mentioned, this might not be the best place for those not interested in the GIS aspect of OSM/OGF. I even struggle to work with simple aspects, such as using relations and mapping through JOSM. So, as far as I’m concern, the bottom line is: I don’t want to be a member whose work is seen as problematic. The actual technology of mapping is not my main focus on OGF and I’m much more interested in the fictional politics, international and cultural affairs, and human involvement of the members and their fictional countries. Should I be editing a country on OGF?

I am loving this site! Ive also done 2 towns.

I shall go on a mapping spree (or rampage?) the next few weeks to get some good looking mapping done in the Molburg Regions. Stay Tuned…

Theres only one thing i need help with. The boundries. Ive read the wiki many times, and i dont seems to get it. Can someone please help?

• World’s biggest…
• World’s largest…
• World’s highest…
• World’s tallest…
• World’s fastest…
• World’s most famous…
• World’s most popular…
• World’s most important…
• World’s most advanced…

Instead of using ’superlatives’ like this to describe your country (or something in it) as being better than everyone else, please use language like:

• one of the world’s biggest…
• one of the largest… in the world
• among the world’s highest…
• some of the world’s tallest…
• very fast
• world famous
• extremely popular
• highly important
• considerably advanced

Same goes for “best on the continent,” region, etc. Thanks for understanding.

Hi mappers!

It has been a long time since my last (and only -_-‘ eheh) diary.

Durign the last three months, in a realy slow pace (because I got into University this year), I worked in three main projects: Nelyto City, Ordyo/Puntick Metropolis and Yuris International Relations.

Nelyto City project is now paused. Nelyto was basicly my experience site. It was my first city, and it was created only with iD, so it has some problems with scale and coastline detailing that I will fix in the future.

Puntick and Ordyo: History

Now, I started using JOSM and Puntick is the “construction site”… Puntick is the old sister of the Yurin capital, Ordyo City. It is located in Girotera Peninsula facing Hallgarve Sea and the Narrow of Ickarion. The first written record wich refers Puntick goes back to 750 a.C. and since then the region has been inhabited. It was the capital city of the region where Yuris is nowadays (in the 14th and 15th centuries, the entire region was occupied by a kingdom called Hallgarv) from 1333 to 1462.

Ordyo City, in the other hand, is one of the most recent world cities. Its construction was proposed by Lenz B. Albano Government in 1957 and was approved in referendum. The idea behind the Ordyo City construction was to “rebuild” the old city of Nodoyeh, the first capital of Yuris that was destroyed in the 14th century by the Hallgarv Kingdom. Since its destruction there were several attempts to rebuild Nodoyeh. However, the ideia of restoring the old Yuris Kingdom glory remained in people’s mind. In the 20th century, when utopian/distopian cultural movements appeared in Yuris, the idea became even more desired. When Puntick started to have urban and social problems, it became imperative to find a solution. President Lenz B. Albano sugested the construction of Ordyo in 1957, the “dream became true” in 1962 and a new capital city was born.

(I will develop the history of this region further in an upcoming wiki article)

Mapping

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Hello. I have been on OGF for only a few weeks, and I am having trouble with creating detailed coastlines. I find it very annoying that you have to zoom so close in to edit. Any tips?

I have made a global cultural event called Night of Theaters, inspired by (Long) Night of Museums. Add your country as participator on wiki article if you want.

Happy mapping!

Is Beeper still a thing? Whenever i click on any of the link that take me to the website kooper.tk, it never connects with the server. As if the site never existed. Please let me know, because i would love to create a thing for republika.lk magazine!

I’ve created Art Kanal page on the wiki. I was looking for international art fair in OGF and nothing appears. So here it is! I want Kirchenburg to be a culture and art meetpoint in Western Uletha.

Each year, it takes place in Kirchenburg, with art galleries of all around the world. The thing is…Anyone has an art gallery interested in having an stand or national pabillion in Art Kanal?

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

Hello! I just found this great site on naming residential roads! Personally, I love making names for things but I make a lot of roads. This random name generator allows you to choose the language of the name, the gender and many others. I hope this helps you guys! :) http://www.behindthename.com/random/

~Kai (aaaah! I have 199 edits!!!)

The paradise of Kuaku City in Lonowai District is now a perfectly functioning city! http://www.opengeofiction.net/edit#map=17/13.76199/85.19352

The city is perfectly habitable with tourist attractions including a zoo and a ski/snowboard hill, an archipelago full of cottages, 4 Public Schools, 3 Middle Schools, 3 High schools, a university, lakes, conservation areas and much more!

Anyone is welcome to help me :)

After months of work the region of Edetanea begins to resemble the idea that I have in mind. In the coming weeks I will map more details of the small towns, especially Pujo and Maternea, since Pucena is practically concluded. When I finish these regions, I have doubts as to whether undertake the task of detailing the maritime neighborhoods of Edetanea or developing the region of Cubenea del Lago and Iliana.

Between May and June I will finish detailing the Sierra Espadanea and I will create the Sierra de Cuerna, as well as the rivers that depend on these. With this, I will have completed the physical structure of the Edetanea Region. According to this rhythm of work I calculate that I can finish Castilea Archanta with a level of detail according to the region that I am currently completing in the year 2073 …

http://www.opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-16.3910/129.9728

I have been working on the Midistland Canal today. I would like for it to be a canal similar to Panama. Midistland is in a strategic part of Uletha and I would like to emphasize that with a large shipping canal through the country. There is already a large lake in place in Midistland to support such a canal. I would like to add service roads, rails, locks, and small and large cities to support the canal. Everyone is welcome to get involved.

The Canal

Dear mappers,

As central and western Ulethan states have no political, economical and cultural alliance they can be part of (EUOIA is for eastern Uletha only, the Uletarephian Union is inactive and very limited, the Southern Uletha Economic Cooperation Council is, as the name says, only destined for southern Ulethan states…), I thought it would be a pretty good idea to create an alliance for states in the entire continent of Uletha, the Ulethan Alliance, ruled from Gobras City and the other five founding countries’ capitals. What do you think about it?

Sure, I know, it sounds a little superfluous, but I think it is a good way to get to know other active mappers in Uletha, maybe to collaborate with them, to create institutions and organizations on continental level (like the “Ulethan Capital of Culture”) and to strengthen relations between countries.

If you’re interested in the UA, you can even be one of the 6 founding members of the organization :)) Just write it down below!

More information about UA here.

Hey Guys, How do you all add such amazing TopoMaps? Could someone please explain how to do it to me?

Thanks

Hey everyone, after visiting some countrys i’ve noticed that a lot of people misuse tags to make it look better rendered. The most common one i’ve encountered was the misuse of the name tag (in general), but in particular railway-related. Writing the name of the lines served at a specific station in there makes it a lot harder to change lines, also that’s not really what that tag is intended for.

I would love it if more people would use OSM as an example and start using relations for lines, IMHO it’s a lot easier, but maybe someone needs to copy the OSM Transport layer for that to happen, as we know that the mapping features are only used if they are rendered somewhere…

On a related note, start using railway=halt more, here in Germany every railway=station that doesn’t have a switch is considered an halt, in OGF one should check placed stations if railway=halt wouldn’t be a better fitting alternative.

This is still work-in-progress (Thilo just uploaded new, incomplete version), but it is way too cool not to share. Totally cool.

http://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/worldwind.html?map=T&v=3&p=-58.326,83.978,14664.064,145.149,83.029

Happy mapping.

I am a fairly new user and would like some help with my last city before Tuesday, when I get my own land (That I might turn into a collab.) Anyway, feel free to help Kuaku City of Lonowai District. Thanks! ~Kai