For some reason, JOSM has decided to stop working. When I try to download the map from OGF, I get this popup.

Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?

Thanks.

Edit: It works fine now after I made the area slightly smaller. See the replies for more info, if you’re curious or having the same problem yourself.

How recommended is it to use JOSM? Also what are the differences between JOSM and editing in the site?

Hello! I am new to GeoFiction and have a question about making rivers. In order to make the river gradually wider as it gets to the ocean, would the best option be to just make the river an area? Or would the line tool allow me to do this somehow? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Hi! As you can see I am new to this community. I will be editing in Gobrassanya (for now). If you have any tips for editing, please share it to me. Thanks!

May is close, and the biggest european tv show is on a countdown. I’ve already seen in OGF something called geovision, inspired by eurovision, but in an international way ( and it seems its forgoten). I believe this should be related to Western Uletha, as it seems is the OGF’s Europe. But I want to go in a real interesting competition. What if a real world country competing in Eurovision is assigned to a western ulethan country? Create a singer or band, and a song, but link its destiny to a real country. What you think about this ulethans? Should we choose a country or do it ramdomly in a raffle? It has sense to relate it to the vinnic comunity, and it requires creating a ulethan tv broadcast union. For this first broadcast we should find a host. (It can be given to the country related to Ukraine (this years host). Ulevision? Ulethavision?

Another way to enjoy Eurovision hahaha

I hope this helps in cutting costs for motorways, roads or whatever, because I know every meter costs a huge amount of money. There is some mathematics involved,

Here is a scenario: You have built up 4 towns (or buildings or whatever) and now you need to join them up. These 4 towns (or buildings in the picture) happened to form a square (let’s assume) 1 by 1 Kilometer or mile if you are British.

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I am thinking about removing motorway exit numbers; so

• should I number motorway exits or name them (like in Scandinavian countries?)
• what are the pros and cons of numbering, and naming, motorway exits?

Thanks!

Hi fellow mappers!

In the last couple of days I’ve mostly busied myself with building the Philipsson tram - see my bliki - but have also stumbled across several things on the wider web that may be of use to us all.

The first is an open-source program called Makehuman. As the name suggests, it is a 3D CAD software for creating models of people. There have been several discussions about the issues around using photos of real people on the wiki, and I think this may be an answer, as it allows the user to create quite realistic virtual people with great freedom over features, pose and other aspects. The program is also quite easy to use, and more experienced users can export the models into Blender for advanced editing. I will put up some examples on my bliki in due course.

The second is a (propitiatory) video game called Cities: Skylines. This is a detailed and seemingly highly realistic city simulator that can create very large metropolis areas with all the infrastructure, growth and economic issues town planners have to face. I am not suggesting that you all rush out and download the game, but watching some gameplay videos on YouTube might be a good introduction to the way physical map features massively affect how a city works. There was one where a user redid all his bus lines to make them serve the rail stations and his economy grew by a whopping amount because ti cut commuting times. Anyway, I’ve bought the game and intend to try and recreate some Karolian cities to see if they really ‘work’.

There are also some very informative YouTube videos on transport topics, such as ‘why are trains so expensive?’ (the answer is a surprisingly good one).

Stay tuned for an update on the tram model build.

Sarepava

makehuman.org

!http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Zuid_Utterland_Smalspoorbanen.jpg

Although Utterland is still a little bare, I’ve progressed to putting in a narrow-gauge railway system in the hilly south. The map shows black lines as the ZUS network, red the (at times rudimentary) mainline network, and green the international connections.

I have yet to map the capital city, Uisteren, as well as most of the towns on the network. Just wanted to see how it works.

Apologies, I can’t seem to get the image to display. Help.

Some activity going on in Suria?

So about a week ago I posted on here after I joined, saying I was making my first town. I decided to give a little update.

First of all, I came up with a name idea. I was thinking of calling the town Furstrade. It’s a play on words, since it’s my first town, and it was built there as sort of a trade center (see my first post). You could also think of it being a town where furs were traded a lot.

My thinking for the layout of the town is to have a commercial area over in between the river and highway. (see map) I’ve already got that mapped out, aside from the actual buildings. Historically, this used to be an area where people would do a lot of trading between the other towns that were along the same river, and over time, it was slowly replaced with modern commercial buildings.

To the right of the motorway, is the residential area. I’m currently in the process of mapping this. Historically (I really like the idea of this having a somewhat detailed history, if you can’t tell :P) people who were dealing with a lot of the trade here decided to build houses over here, so they wouldn’t have to travel so far every day. These houses were kind of built somewhat randomly, though. When this was being modernized, the local government was on a bit of a tight budget, and so they decided to keep it relatively random. So the streets will be a bit nonuniform.

Finally, below the residential area on the other side of the river, will be the government area. This will be relatively small, and have things like the town hall and such, and maybe a small park.

Let me know what you think of this so far. If you have any tips or suggestions on things I should maybe do a bit differently (since I’m new here) feel free to tell me.

Wow, I spent way longer writing this than I should have…

I got my own nation!!!!!! It’s name is Natlyn, of course. I am making St. Alexander, a work of the previous owner, part of the metropalin area of Natlyn City. I will start working on it now.

I know the topic of religion comes up periodically, and I think we all seem to be pretty civil and sensitive to the nature of the topic. (Thank you for that, by the way.) Well, today, I’m throwing that all out the window…

I have decided to take up the challenge of creating a pantheon of deities for a Mauro pagan religion based on OGF users and their collaborative input. If you want to be enshrined as a deity, demigod, hero, angel/demon, leviathan, etc., head on over to the bliki page and jump in. I explain more there and give the rationale for this project. Maybe it will be fun. I’m hoping it is an interesting collaborative experiment!

(N.B.: No user will be a part of the pantheon without their expressed consent. If you don’t want to be a part of this, you don’t have to fear.)

I’ll see you on the bliki!

I wonder if there’s anybody out there who wants to be friends (OGF).

Like, collaborate on stuff or something.

This will probably bring the OGF community together!!

Like the previous question I asked about sports, which Religions are practiced, and who founded it, etc.

An example from Commonia = [http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/17.24328/140.42537]

As far as I know in New York City the blocks are 60 to 240 m. If you calculate as minimum 1) street a, right side driving lane 3 m, 2) parking lane 2 m, 3) footway 3 m, 4) house at street a 12 m, 5) inner block 10 m, 6) house at street b 12 m, 7) footway 3 m, 8) parking lane 2 m and 9) street b, left side driving lane 3 m = then you get 50 m. This is the absolute minimum for reasonable buildings inside of the blocks.

If you will do a good work for the inhabitants of your town - give them more room.

Just another preview of the QUARTA QLine Metro Map after recent progress

Hello, just wanted to ask, are there any unique sports in the OGF world that aren’t in the real world? If so, what are they, what are their rules and where are they being played?

Hello! This is my first diary entry. I am working on Natlyn and South Natlyn City until I get my own territory on Monday.

(This is closed for discussion and possibly reinstated in the future when the world is almost fully mapped)

I have read this and thought up of a suggestion for the ‘holy land’, how possibly Christianity is spread out throughout the world and possibly where the locations stated in the Bible came from. I thought the Israel could become a collaborative territory in the future, or a set aside a place in UL137 for the Israel state if it become collaborative.

Possible location of an Israel-like nation (or state) in the OGF World.

• Since our real Israel is near some Arab-majority nations and possibly in conflict with those, I thought maybe our version of Israel is possibly sandwiched between Suria and UL137. Maybe the Israel-like nation can be a state claimed either by Suria or UL137, its sovereignty disputed by these two nations, while Israel claimed itself that it was a nation, alongside with most Christians in the world. The AN possibly will not recognise it as a country though.

OR

• One of those nations in the unmapped continents? It looks easier.

Possibility of the spread of the Christic Movement.

• I think that if the 1st option is accepted, then it most likely spread to Suria first. The Arabs in UL137 would have rejected the Christic Movement and decide Jesus is a prophet, thus likely how Islam is formed. Those Christians in UL137 would then move to Suria and then spread from there, while the ‘holy land’ was destroyed by UL137 Islam activists. As it continues to spread by mouth, different groups of Christians may have different opinions and interpretations of what was spread before the Bible was published, thus I think there are Baptist, Seventh-day Churches etc.

OR

• If the latter is accepted then possibly by boat explorers spread it to Uletha and then to other continents.

Names of the ‘holy land’ could be discussed in the future (I temporarily used Israel as the name). I bought up this issue because Easter and Good Friday is round the corner.

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