OpenGeofiction
Hey there, After only being active very sparsely for the past 3 months I can announce that I’ll finally be ending my break and start to waste my free time on ogf again. I’ve got more sheets with scrabbled notes saying ,,Ogf ideas” on them then you can imagine. Kingfries is back and i’ve got a ton of stuff to haul up too.
See you soon
It appears that surface routes are being replaced with motorways in the northern end of Commonia. Many such of these routes have been around for a long time. What is the obsession with such an over utilization of motorways anyway?
I map out routes that were original routes then go back in map out new alignments. There are some instances wherein I map out both a new highway but then envision an old alignment or business route as well.
Well, OGF-friends… Looks like I finally finished one city in my countries (Slovech is not finished yet).
Welcome to Barra da Grama, the third most important city of Brasonia.
I set inside the city limits as much buildings as possible. And I created names to (almost) all the streets.
There are still somethings to do, but, at first shot, I am proud, hjehehe!!!
I need creating names to few streets, but I still need creating names to shops, mainly in the old downtown (how can Myrcia create so much good names to shops in her/his country? hehehe). And, the main point to me (but not rendered in any OGF-map), relations to metropolitan bus routes, hahaha
I am always also editing the wiki article, trying to write some thing insteresting about this city I learned to love, and I can say with no doubt, this is one of the OGF-places I would like to live.
Now, maybe, focus in the metropolitan towns. But, maybe, I will start the old plan about re-creating Cariocas country, I dont know yet…
Abraços a todos!
Bruno Moreira
===UPDATE===
Hi, everybody!
Well.. I will do some changes about Barra da Grama rails…
More about it soon!
Regards to all!!
Bruno Moreira
Are there any interesting or strange events and locations in your country? It would be cool to see some oddities here!
For Agarderia, there was an unrecognised microstate Free Republic of Zimna Forest declared for exactly a month in 1986 but then annexed by the Agarderian government. Partially satirising ‘countries’ such as Sealand and Liberland (and possibly the libertarian right), partially the product of boredom and unwillingness to map.
It’s on my sandbox page for the time being because I’d say it’s a case of overwikification, as the actual village currently looks like this. I’ll consider moving the article to a proper wiki page once Agarderia is mapped more intensively and after I’ve polished up the page and photos.
Does anyone else have any quirky features they’d like to share?
hello all, I need serious help with the new search thing..Noma…whatever. Frankly I don’t like it, because I don’t understand it xD I preferred the old search thing, but I don’t know the name of it either. Which is why I am asking.
What is the name of the old search thing that can search for specific tags? Or can anybody explain to me how I can search by tag on the new Nomatilian or whatever.
Sorry for being so frank, but I am extremely frustrated as I have not been able to understand it for months, and it is getting to me REALLY BADLY. Thanks in advance
i have worked hard on Balkaria, but I want to trade it for an unclaimed territory where I can start fresh. i have wiki articles for Balkaria. any suggestions as to what I should do?
I’m not sure how to delete the nodes on my shoreline as I have too much :c. On JOSM I don’t know and on ID it takes forever and potlatch (the one I used to edit the shoreline) won’t load and I can only slowly delete the nodes. I need some help from anyone who knows how to use JOSM to delete nodes along my shoreline. Thanks!
Hi, I saw that transnational contential motorway systems are not so popular so I thought of suggesting another mode of transportation that spreads within continents- railways.
Like some of those stated here, I wonder whether is this possible in separate continents, if not for those unoccupied territories. It can improve connectivity for people and cargo, instead of just ships and planes.
I thought I post some insights (if there ever is), but has anyone tried Fractal Terrains 3? I checked it out this weekend and tried the demo, and was wondering if anyone tried it to create land patterns, etc…
A possible heads-up. I hope I’m not spamming, as I myself am trying to find ways to make a realistic territory, which is the reason for my long absence (I managed to delete my odd riverways for a new one).
Take care all,
J
Footnote: I also am checking out another fractal terrain editor (possibly) called Wilbur. I thought anyone might like to check it out as well.
Could somebody help me detail Omniville? Thanks!
I’ve been trying to be more original with my parodies lately, to try and make them have a humorous reference quality to them but still feel somewhat fitting for the OGF world.
One thing I’ve tried is making references to things that don’t exactly relate to the object doing the referencing.
One such example is Crazy Crunch, a popular cereal in Freedemia.
You might get the reference from the box.
If you don’t you’ll definitely get it from the jingle.
While there is a List of Airlines wiki page to help users “get an idea of route coverage and hubs,” it looks like the number of airlines has grown far too large to navigate comfortably.
Some airlines have listed destinations and flight frequencies on their respective pages, but there is no unified format or single location where one can find this information. What do you guys think of having a computerized database of airports/airlines with destinations and flight frequencies? With all the data in one system, flight schedules could be generated automatically and flight durations could be calculated pretty easily from airport coordinates.
I’ve also seen a lot of users seeking destinations for their airline or airlines to serve their airport. Perhaps with a better system, we could streamline this process and allow airlines/airports to serve dozens or hundreds of destinations instead of being subject to the chances of whoever replies to the post.
I think this should be pretty simple to code and host on a third-party server… I am just wondering if people are willing to use such a tool. What do you think?
I think I just found another update gap where mobile users don’t see the edit tab so they cannot edit anything.
Hi. Just would like to know, besides Agarderia and Singkangia, are there other socialist, communist, communist-controlled or communist-influenced countries and states historically? The OGF:Global Collaboration is slightly useful but not clear enough, and some may not have included their countries. I thought of setting up an international organisation for former communist states and still communist states.
The purpose of the organisation (yet to be named) is to finance poverty stricken communist states by providing subsidies for them, depending on how the money was used (for instance money used to build homes or restabilise economy, not for military warfare like how China fund North Korea for their nuclear missle programme), accelerate social progress for still communist states, and cultural development. Additionally, it is to promote peace and stability with each other, whether formally communist or not. Lastly, it is to promote effective collaboration between communist states and other non-communist states (including former communist states) and mutual assistance on matters of common interest. And of course, to maintain close, beneficial co-operation with existing international organisations with similar aims and purposes. (This is just a general idea and may be discussed. By the way, this is not overwikification (yet))
By the way it may also include dictator-rule, a country which has a state under communist rule (before or now) or sometimes anarchies, but Commonia or West Commonia is not invitied. Also, if there were less than eight communist states then the idea can blow over.
Would anybody be interested in collaborating with me on historical events between our nations? Things like conflicts, relief efforts, trades, etc.
The collaboration would mostly be on the wiki but can also take place in OGF proper, with things like embassies and the like.
I might as well kick off my diary with a topic that interests me - highway shields.
I’d like to add pictures of them into my road articles because they look so much nicer than basic text, but this would require quite a few shields. I don’t plan on adding them all (since all ten of Vodeo’s provinces have their own highways as well as the national M/A/B/C roads), but just the main M/A/B/C highways and important provincial highways. Is this allowed, or do bandwidth constraints mean we have to keep them to a minimum? Obviously I don’t mean full 1000px pictures, but just small 25 or 50-pixel ones. I notice that Gobrassanya has quite a few, which is why I’d like to add some of my own in.
tl;dr Par wants to add pictures with numbers in them, is it allowed?
Hi, new here :)
I get a whole bunch of crossing ways errors whenever I sync with OGF. Is this something to worry about?
Hey all, happy May. White Rabbit. I’m writing up a Diary Entry tonight with the hope that this May, I can do something different.
I need a break from working on the Bengali inspired Tierajas-Verdes, just to like…refresh. Come back to it with fresh eyes, fresh ideas, a renewed sense of motivation. Not to say motivation is gone, I love working on Tierajas-Verdes, I’d just like a change.
Which is why I come to you…I have 3 options on the table as I see fit. Solo, Community, Collaboration. I’ll go through each separately;
So…I’ve been concidering the case of BMSOUZA and a few others I can’t name off the top of my head, in that they have multiple countries of…varying differences. In my last Bliki (Here), I mentioned that I was considering options for the relatively TINY TA113c. And whilst, it is appealing to once again build…EVEN SMALLER on this level in terms of size of a country. And it gives an opportunity for a Mediterranean style project of that of Greece, Malta, Cyprus etc. I’m also drawn to the idea of what is currently The Holy Cross and reforming it into something different and more akin politically to a modern version of the old Papal States (?)…sorta a Religious Federation.
What I have been feeling conflicted with, is if this is technically allowed? If I can have a second state if I feel like my first is progressing quite nicely at a steady rate. And as said, gives me a different style to work on for coming back to Tierajas-Verdes, I can have fresher eyes.
I need answers to these questions, otherwise i will never achieve what i would want to with Litvania. Whenever i search it up there are little helpful results.
How do we (can we even?) draw lines at only 90° and 45° angles? In Inkscape it is Shift.
How do we accurately plan scaling? Like how can i draw my drawing at an appropriate scale on paper, and make sure it works here.
How do people draw things like this, and when i draw an plan and then trace, i end up with this.
Love the new route generator, which shows the gaps in the international roads network in sometimes quite dramatic fashion. Have a look at the distance between the Utterland town of Luikenberg and the Isztiarnorszag town of Szarvasko. Approximately 150 km as the crow flies, but an eye-watering 2080 km by road. (http://opengeofiction.net/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=55.216%2C46.454%3B54.081%2C47.702#map=6/52.683/44.165).
Do I advocate linking our countries’ road networks? Depends how everybody feels about that.
