Salut,

Discord est une application qui permet de discuter par écrit ou en vocal (avec un micro) dans des serveurs, créés par chacun. Aujourd’hui, je voulais vous présenter un serveur dédié à la communauté francophone d’OGF (hélas peu présente). On peut y parler de la carte, du wiki, de vos pays virtuels mais aussi de la pluie et du beau temps, si vous vous ennuyez une froide journée d’hiver… Bref, voici le lien :

https://discord.gg/E4UN5bs

You are an English-speaking user? No problem, you can also chat on this server! ;)

J’espère que ça vous plaira et à plus sur notre site favori (OGF bien sûr ^^ )

Bye !

So i really want to have this town, Záhorská Bystrica in Litvania. I want it on the other side of the Micheny mountains.

Its name really means “behind the mountainous-bystrica”.

Unfortunately it is a 2,500 people settlement in Slovakia. Can we make the exeption?

It’s called Opengeofiction Lune, and we can chat about our nations as well as chat about ogf in General. Link is: https://discord.gg/VQTXj76 Make sure you follow the rules posted.

Looks like Tarephia is flooded

Hello, dear OGF-community. After a hard time in life, I am looking forward to get active in OGF again. At the moment I am working solo on an own country, which is still located in Commonia, but which I want to move later on. I can’t really promise to finish it and so I thought, it would be a good idea to create it in Commonia, instead of having an own territory and then never finish it. Today is was busy at reworking the Malinton Delta in Gobrassanya (May still need some time to update). What do you think about it?

Regards, Bstn

# Community-owned vs. privately-owned collaboratives

From this point forward, we wish to introduce some collaboratives that are community-owned, where ‘admin’ is listed as the owner and will appoint a user (or users) to serve as the territory’s coordinator(s).

A coordinator for a community-owned collaborative:

• must develop the territory for the benefit of the community, working as a team with other active mappers there;
• cannot make the territory private, closed, etc;
• should find ways to include any well-qualified mappers who wish to participate;
• will consult with admin before any major changes (decisions can be vetoed by admin); and
• may be replaced by admin if necessary.

Official vs. unofficial collaboratives

In addition to distinguishing between community-owned and privately-owned collaboratives, we will also distinguish between official and unofficial collaboratives.

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Behold, here comes my first actually quite useful diary entry…

I implemented a Level0 Editor on my server (Thanks Thilo for the DNS-Entrys) and wanted to share with you how it can be useful.

How to use the Level0 editor to rename things

So, who doesn’t know this, you set up a something, in my example a town, define it’s adminstrative boundarys, name roads after it and use the name in quite a lot of other things. After a while you think that this name doesn’t really fit anymore and you decide it needs a new one. The previous way was to wrangle with the bare .osm-files of JOSM, but now there is a much better way!

Step 1: Using Overpass to find stuff that contains the name

First you need to identify where the name is used so you zoom in on your country on the Overpass-Turbo, here you insert the name like this:

The name: tells the overpass API to look inside all name keys for your name, in my case it would find “Stadtwald Allerswarte” as well as “Allerswarter Verkehrsgesellschaft”.

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Hey everyone , how are you folks doing? Just wanted to let you know that I wont be online for some time until long after easter. Like I said recently my laptop broke and I got the confirmation that the Problem was the cooling and some Part inside actually was melting… Pff glad that thing didnt catch fire… So yeah… Won’t be online for some time, Just so you dont think I forgot about ogf. I’ll still be able to check the diary and Wiki from phone though. Anyways, hear from you guys

I finished the first city of my new state of Teberia yesterday and I think that I can be a bit proud of my work if I compare it to other’s first cities :)

The city is called Polgiana and it has a somewhat mediterranean style. It wont be the largest city of Teberia, but maybe the second largest after it’s capital, which I will start in the next days.

I hope you like it :D

I have created the cities of Vella Park Coast, Susquehanna City (under construction) the towns of Shoreside, New Carbondale and the village of ocean bay to the nation i removed Ambers Point due to not knowing what to do with it so that area is clear

The eastern part of the city of Solsburg in western Utterland is beginning to take shape. It has a fortress, Fort Merken, which is glowering west, across the water at Fort Solsburg. The two fastnesses used to belong to two different and hostile factions. The western faction tried to cross the river many a time, but always ran up against the ramparts of Fort Merken. These are now clad in parkland, but the riverside street, De Bierkaai, is an obscure reference to this animosity. Fighting “De Bierkaai” means engaging in a futile battle, which you’ll never win.

Hello, I’m very sorry for my inactivity. I’d like to communicate that henceforth, Vinnmark is a collaborative country, mostly due to the fact that I’m having some health problems + school, so even though I’m still into Vinnmark, I don’t have much time for mapping, and I don’t want to lose it.

If you’re interested in mapping Vinnmark, you should know that there are some requisites.

• Don’t map further east than Berles, as a gulf is going to be mapped there.
• Names must look Swedish or Danish.
• Try to keep the Netherlands in mind, with channels, dams and others.
• The southern part of the country should have SOME French names.

If you are interested in contributing, start when you want, but message me when you are going to start.

Best regards.

My very brief summary of my own work on last month’s challenge: I didn’t do it. I thought about it. Does that count?

The problem, of course, is that I decided I wanted to have the Topo layer complete before beginning work on Comala. That became an impossibly huge project, as my contour-drawing mania started to encompass the surrounding region.

Anyway, Comala will eventually be mapped, and it will have no motorways.

How did everyone else do?

Luciano’s Mapper’s Challenge #12 - March, 2017 - Ghosts on the Map

This month’s challenge is a more manageable scale. It comes from Thilo.

He suggested “mapping things that aren’t there anymore.”

This is a common enough aspect of urban geography. This article (Los Angeles Times) is a good introduction to the issue in the context of North American urbanism. In Europe, you can find the outlines of ancient Roman amphitheaters, for example.

Some users have done this already, in OGF. There’s joschi81’s former railway station converted into a concert hall, in Tarott. I placed a “former railroad right-of-way” when I mapped the area surrounding the Irhoborin Refugee Settlement in Duvar, which can just barely be made out on the map (look for “Rail Street”).

So this month’s challenge is to map something that isn’t there anymore. Use your imagination, think about the history of your territory, and go for it.

Since I’m working on Comala, I think I might place a small, abandoned pre-Colonial city “under” the modern Ardispherian city. I was planning on approaching the city at least semi-historically (not at rigorously as user Pawl has been doing, but a similar concept). So I will draw a plan and place some buildings for the pre-Colonial city in a layer for Comala, which rather than uploading, I’ll just keep for reference as I develop the city.

Happy mapping.

I’m planning a trip by rail around Europe to celebrate the end of my degree in May. I’ve got an idea of which major cities I’m going to travel to but I’d love to know if anyone had any tips on what to see or any good advice for travelling by rail across Europe.

London > Brussels > Hamburg > Copenhagen > Berlin > Bratislava > Wien > Prague > Warsaw > Gdansk > Newcastle (by plane) > London

I’ve made a start on the city of Solsburg, the biggest conurbation I have mapped in the week since I acquired Utterland. Solsburg stands at the southern end of Lake Hetzer, and straddles the mouth of the river flowing into it. The west bank has Fort Solsburg standing proud, surrounded by the old city, still within its ancient city walls. Also contained is Solsburg Cathedral, midway between the Fort and West Burgh Museum. West Burgh used to be the palace for the rulers of Solsburgh. The modern railway passes to the south of the city walls, after crossing from the east. The old railway, now a preserved line, runs from the northern end of the city walls to Woudendijk. This line is not exactly scenic, as it now passes through an industrial estate and under the towering edifices of the West Solsburg power station.

As I start to build the eastern part of Solsburg, I hope to be able to flesh out on the area’s history - which I expect to be very interesting. Solsburg lies only 15 km south of Ligota in Szlunsk and 35 km south of Kirchenburg in Welstand-Westrijk, a border town and a garrison town. Watch this space.

Hello, don’t want to seem like coming across as pushing, but just as a reminder, I have a Bliki, and I have closed off February with an End of Month Review of my progress, instead of doing a usual Diary Entry. You can find it here! Leave a comment if you like, or not, you’re your own person!

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Aces_California/Bliki/February2017

• Aces

Hey guys!

Just wanted to let you know! Litvanka is on Twitter!

Let me know if you wanna get featured! (I already included some places i think are extremely impressively mapped)

good march to everyone! Ill let everyone know about my work somewhere in the middle of this month.

mfn

You’ve just witnessed my peak lyrical performance.

Anyways, after finishing the district of Ráj nad Mlžnicí I spent the rest of February mapping in Drabantia’s capital city, Drahns.

I occasionally get angry at myself for placing the city on tip of a peninsula. Especially every time I’m designing public transport connections, road network, etc. and they end up not working. Well, what can I do. Should’ve read the OGF: guides better.

If I had to describe my work in one word, I’d choose ‘chaotic.’ I deleted so much stuff. I started mapping the old town again from scratch. I also discovered drawing your streets as a regular grid might seem easy at first, but causes so much trouble later. I also found out you should probably sketch out the outside connections and other ‘big stuff’ first before going to detail. Again, should’ve read the OGF: guides better, but like hey, whatever. I’m gonna fake it till I make it.

And now for some of the interesting places:

• The old Old Town - it’s the historic city center. Originally founded around year 1300, but most of the present-day buildings are from the 18th century. There’s passages, cozy backyards, ‘authentic’ pubs serving poor quality beer for five times the normal price and kitsch souvenir shops. It’s also a great place for embassies and offices (because no one wants to live there anymore.) If you’re interested in either of these two, just write it in the comments or something.

• The new Old Town - that’s the relevant city center built around 1870. It’s mainly a residential area, but if you’re interested in classicism, neo-renaissance and other architecture styles from late 19th century, you’ll be satisfied too. The controversial neo-gothic cathedral is worth a see, too.

• National Museum and surroundings - this area marks the end of the city center and the start of suburbs. It features a textile factory converted into offices, villas from early 20th century and a dance school.

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In February, I started three new mapping projects, but finished only one: making small neighbourhood in Gobras City where Mallyorian community lives. I map a country called Mallyore and Gobrassanya is its biggest economical, cultural and historical partner. A lot of Mallyorian people emigrated in Gobrassanya, especially in Gobras City, so I decided to make a neighbourhood where they live, see here.

I imagined it as an older neighbourhood where Mallyorian people live for years with other Gobrassian people, too. I still don’t know the name of neighbourhood, but Little Mallyore fits the best for me currently (based on Little Italy and similar neighbourhoods in the US).

The neighbourhood is bounded by Gobras Boulevard, Ormeo Avenue, River Bridge Road and Bosco River. The first housing was built on coast of Bosco River and that’s now the center of neighbourhood with small port and river walkway. On the north, next to the Gobras Boulevard, some bigger block of flats are built. There’s a lot facilities connected with Mallyorian people and culture: Gobras-Mallyorian Library, Mally Theater, Cinema of Mallyorian Movies, Museum of Diaspora, Mallyorian Community Center, new Embassy of Mallyore, two churches… Some institutions of 33 Ward can also be found: court, fire and police department etc. On the south there’s a medical facility: St. Jonah’s Clinic. There are two schools: King Joseph Primary School and Mallyere School Center: a educational center which provides primary, secondary and tertiary education in Mallyorian language.

I tried to insert some interesting content in the grid of Gobras City. I didn’t want to build all streets and buildings the same, but to make something different and detailed. I hope I will finish my other projects soon so I can present it to you.

Please be free to comment, share your ideas, thoughts and content. And sorry for bad English.

Regards!

I set up nominatim with OGF-Data… Got to change most of the HTML in the background (including tiles), but it at least works!

http://v22016103888538212.megasrv.de:8080/

Just try if it finds the stuff you are looking for and leave some Feedback in the comments…

My Country as an example. Still working on the routing leaflet, if anyone that has some JS-Knowledge wants to help out send me a PM.

EDIT: Nominatim is awesome because it uses EVERY name tag available, for example i can find http://opengeofiction.net/node/57347749 with a search for Kaaltii (Transcript from local language) and even with the local language, where it is called “ᑳᓪᑏ”, so Nominatim is fully UTF-8 compatible.

EDIT: UPDATE: I let an update run overnight, if “Data last updated” is later than “2016/05/31 01:38 GMT” it worked (I don’t know where that wierd date came from in the first place…)