Well, it’s been a long time, OpenGeoFiction, since I was last here. I’ve decided to split off the northern half of my northernmost territory into a new country: “Norkolnia”… Mainly because I never edit there. It has no OGF-specific tags (the internal OGF code, the actual name that OGF picks up, those things) at the moment, just the boundaries and the relation.

“Kurzoviya”/Katav

I feel I’ve ground to a halt with Utterland. I know full well that I can do a heck of a lot more with the territory, but my inspiration has temporarily dried up.

I’ve been focusing on getting the road and rail networks sorted, but apart from places like Welle, Solsburg and Galmosen, not put a lot of detail into towns and cities (yet). I do realise that this is a long-term project (years), but would really appreciate some constructive input, hints and suggestions on how to go on from here. I’m not much into the Wiki thing; I want to focus on the mapping.

Hey all,

I have created the Trans-Asperic Union, or TAU for short. Send me a message if you want to join!

Just giving everyone a quick heads up that my nominatim-service available under http://nominatim.opengeofiction.net:8080/ will be down for maintenance tomorrow from about 10:00 CEST (GMT +2) to at least 14:00.

Other affected services:

• OGF-Main Page: Search will not function
• Names in the routing will not be searchable, you have to use the right-click features to add locations or drag the markers around
• Reverse geocoding for diary entries
• Every other service that uses the nominatim-service provided by me, if I forgot something just leave a comment below.

Technical Background: After the OGF-Update to a new version last month the replication-update process was not working properly on my side anymore so i’ll have to set the service up from scratch again.

Kind Regards

Martin

Update: Downtime for at least three (3) more hours due to database rebuild taking longer than expected

Update 2: Nominatim is up and running again, but the Database is still about a month behind in processing, so stay tuned…

There’s landflooding in Archanta. The admins might take a look on the landflooding.

I just want to run Dunwic’s population estimates past people and see if they agree. I think the city is comparable in density and size to Dusseldorf, if you look at the OSM vs OGF comparison it seems quite reaosnable

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/56.3433/19.2463 osm.org/#map=13/51.2355/6.7861

I have yet to map all of the outlying towns and suburbs of Dunwic, there will be more and then it will be even more comparable. The population of the city of Dusseldorf (which does covers an area roughly similar to urban Dunwic) is 612,000. Is this a realistic number?

In that case I think it’d probably give the whole country a population of around 1,000,000 which is what I’ve always invisaged. Essentially it could be argued that Myrcia is so small that the whole island is the ‘Dunwic metro area’. It is only 1h40 by train to the farthest city on the island.

Anyway, thoughts welcome as always.

Greetings from Zoologischer Garten Bhf Berlin!

Adam

I am not sure who caused this (I most likely did not otherwise JOSM will tell me), or is this real, but i think Archanta is flooded again.

http://api.opengeofiction.net/#map=9/-9.4748/161.5677

All New immigrants are brought to Arlington for Passports, Citizenship papers, and converting drivers licenses to Planorian.

In order to be a citizen in my country you would have to join https://discord.gg/ZsV9n7y Then I have to do background checks, and look in your luggage. If you’re visiting you just say so and you will be a tourist Immigrants will be given access to Arlington Immigration centre text channel for citizenship papers.

can someone help me with administrative boundaries please? thanks!

I have drawn and linked up several roads in northern Vinnmark, particularly around Hanviller, Vinn, Köln and Kongshavn. This means that it is now possible to get “directions” to those places. I have also cleaned up some of the motorways and primary road system around Berles and the aforementioned towns.

Hi everyone!

I keep going on with my Welstand-Westrijk rebuilt. Everybody is responding so well to my changes even if I’m focusing on the capital Kirchenburg right now, so THANKS SO MUCH everybody.

The Kirchenburg 2020 Geolympiad bid is starting working. I know Kirchenburg is still not finished, but i like it to be so detailed, or at last half detailed for the begining.

As i told sometimes before, one of the things i love the most of OGF is the opportunity to design stuff. And international events are like candy for me. That’s why I apply to the Geolympiad, and that’s why i was asking days ago about what hapened to Geovision Song Festival (I’d love to host an event like that) That’s why i have the only international art fair in OGF, even if no one was so interested, and that’s why i have the main haute couture company (I’d love to prepare a Fashion Week too) So, if any of you are interested in create something like this, or have any opinion about it…just tell me.

While creating the new Kirchenburg and deleting the old one, I’ve lost a lot of embassies placed in the city. At this moment there are only a few from neighbour countries (Vinnmark, Shilesia and Koban). So I’m interested in knowing who is interested in having an embassy at Kirchenburg.

Since the area changed by the Hetzer Firth, Welstand-Westrijk started to being part of the Vinnic Economic Comunity. Has anyone talked about the idea of build the official buildings in the same city? Or would be possible to give each city an official building? If so, Kirchenburg would be a perfect place for it :P haha

I remind to all the monarchies around, Welstand-Westrijk is a monarchy too. Welstand-Westrijk history is just a sketch by now, but i’d love to write some common history between other countries and Welsrijk.

Taking the chance, now that im talking about a lot of stuff, want to say that I’m in love with Myrcia hahah.

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How are you folks doing? My redoing of Pasalia’s Capital is continuing. Your nation is invited to build its embassy here: http://opengeofiction.net/edit#map=16/-46.8080/68.9973 Happy Mapping everyone

Yes I know the name of the city is in no way original. Can someone advise the population estimate of the city? With this city I am looking at how things were when motorways were being designed and constructed.

It looks like someone flooded Archanta again. Older tiles show land, but newer ones show water on top of everything.

I really hope you guys like it. Let me know if you have any comments, or suggestions as to how I proceed. I really want to make this city the best as I can, and with everyone’s help, I know that can be achieved.

Hello to all, I have been working on Terwen’s capitol city, Campech, for a while now, and have mostly completed it. I want to take a look at Campech and ask for suggestions and criticisms on the city. I think that Campech is at least currently my best try at a city because its the first time I’ve made a city with features like detailed building complexes and geography. I know that it needs improvements like a proper mass transit system and more details in certain areas, but I would like to hear your suggestions on what I can do to improve the city. I plan for the city to have a population of between 600,000 and 750,000 in the district limits, and 4-5 million in the metro (seperate from the future San Opicho metro). I also am planning an airport here. So please, give me your most honest and helpful criticisms so that I can improve my cities.

Welcome to Aludres, the national capital of the Sovereign Republic of Leresso!

Anyone is welcome to construct their embassy in the outlined area in the downtown area.

If you are wondering where Leresso is, it is two countries southwest of Eŋrige. It is also known as AR141b.

Hello all,

I finally finished another long semester of school and I haven’t had much free time to work on Jefferson. Although I’ll be taking summer classes, I will be back now!

As I move forward, I want to take a look at Patriot City and get feedback. Specifically, what needs to be changed to improve the city?

I’m aware that Patriot City fits all the criteria on the laundry list of frequent complaints: -Grid city -USA style -Lots of motorways -etc. . .

I prefer to work on small areas of detail at a time and you can see that from the way the city is half finished. Since I began my OGF career at the city center and then mapped out, I expect that you guys will have many suggestions for that area.

I eventually intend for the city to have a population of between 900,000 and 1 million within city limits, and 3-4 million in the metro area (which I haven’t even begun).

And yes, an airport has been planned for the longest time, here, it just hasn’t been mapped yet.

So please, give me your harshest, most honest critiques!

Hey everyone,

as I started working on an OpenGeoFictionRailwayMap, one though came to mind, we all map railways, but so far i haven’t seen anyone develop a signal system for thier country. I started developing one in the wiki for L&A but I’m not an in-depth person regarding railways.

So my question: Anyone has a working railway signal system for their country?

Edit: To clarify, it’s not overwikification IMHO because I will actually use my signalling system to render it on a map

A new version of the iD editor was released recently;

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2017-May/029875.html

For now, I have no intention to integrate it into the OGF main site, but you can use it here:

http://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/iD/index.html