I continue to be intrigued by the direction finder for roads. Following on from the idea of an OGF Interrail card, would it be possible to query directions for rail travel?

I’ve decided to use up the empty space and make towns, I have created Windham in one of the enclaves. I’m thinking it would have about 100,000 people living there, some old history of Planoria owning some of the land surrounding the enclaves, and some kind of city square to remember who protected Windham and Alligator Pond from enemy forces. http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-47.00169/65.51532 Second one in location

Hello, fellow mappers.

I’m writing this to warn you that I’ve got new plans for Vinnmark.

First of all, I’m creating a big bay just like Lake IJsselmeer in the Netherlands, which will include an island in it.

I’m also changing the frontiers as I don’t like how Vinnmark looks on the map, so I’ll cut off some parts of it and keep them as ‘unclaimed territories’ so other neighbouring countries can claim them as part of their territory or either someone wants to make them his own country.

Lake Laika is going to be swollen by the sea so that the future city of Odense (which will be similar to Rotterdam in its structure) will be connected to the sea.

Because i decided to put my country on hold for up to 1 1/2 months until i can get a computer strong enough to run JOSM.

P.S. I will still participate in other stuff.

I’ve decided to officially fix my blue country territory and take a break from my official territory. This comes after a message from admin and a comment on my ‘Area for Sale’ Joke: Area For Sale! (Just A Joke). I hope that my blue country neighbors will be satisfied with me fixing it.

P.S Thanks wangi for inspiring me to do it. I will make it as realistic as possible.

I was making some counties in JOSM, and none of them rendered. Any help?

I found an ownerless city in my country (see location below).

Is there anywhere an owner?

Oxalia

I have been working on Norfield last week… http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-46.2884/36.6537

I would like to hear your comments and suggestions before continuing…

William

Admin just contacted me…and i feel like if the best thing to do right now is to potentially start the earliest ever revamp of a nation….

Hi all,

Surprisingly I was the winner of last week’s “Weekly Word” challenge, although “military” is not really a subject I focus on in OGF. As niels20020 mentioned, the winner will from now on have the right to announce the next weekly word.

The new Weekly Word is

Electricity

Looking forward to receiving your entries. Please comment and mention your creations that in your point of view fit to the subject. Deadline is next Saturday 18:00 GMT.

Johannes

PS: @niels20020: The Weekly Word “mini challenge” is a very nice idea, in my point of view. Thank you!

Hello fellow mappers, Whilst being in the very first steps of planning a (rail-) Trip across europe I had an idea. For those not familiar,an Interrail pass is a railpass bought mostly by Young people which enables them to travel by train all over Europe for cheap. Youre standing at the Station and See a train that goes somewhere you like. You fill in the station you are currently at, the one you are headed to and Just get on the train. The ogf-world seems to be working together slightly better than the real one, so why not introduce the Worldtravel-Pass (better name TBA?), which would enable the buyer to travel by rail and ferry all over the world instead of only one continent. There will still be cheaper versions of this only valid for one continent/Region or the more expensive one for the whole world. This could run under the World Tourism Organisation I assume. Now, realistically, Not every country can participate or wants to. But even nations which don’t focus much on rail travel (my own included) or small island nations can offer Discounts for local bus/ferry etc. Services aswell as 10% discounts in hostels. Does this Sound too optimistic? Could be implemented in the wiki article as a table where you add your country and tick off the Services offered (Rail/Ferry/Urban transport/hostel & Museum discounts) using the Red/yellow/green symbols known from other articles. Looking forward to hearing your opinions. -Kingfries

I have been thinking recently about the Grand Lake area in Gobrassanya, and i have been especially thinking of Grand Lake as an Ingerish-speaking City, and Quesagnais as a Franquese-speaking city.

Today, i spotted some streets in Quesagnais that had Ingerish names.

Should i replace those names with Franquese ones?

I just wrote my very first bliki celebrating my one year on OGF! It features:

• Emotional stories about my geofiction passion;

• A guide for building an imaginary European city;

• A complex timeline of mappings I did this year;

• A detailed description of the reconstruction project of the city of Vâlcești;

• Two song tips;

• Lame jokes.

Please don’t forget to leave a nice comment in the comment section. Thanks!

There have been edits in Vinnmark from adminero_us’s account, but they have caused flooding. Looking in JOSM, the coastline has been substantially altered on top of existing mapping. Is it possible that adminero_us’s account is compromised?

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/57.2642/45.6125

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/-46.3288/65.9409 I drew some inspiration from Murapura and Khaiwoon

I was wondering if there is any collection of good examples of highly detailed mapping?

• there’s the FeaturedMap on the main page for larger areas of detailed mapping
• one knows some very detailed locations in OGF like Gobras City, Dunwic, Mynninghamn, Barra da Grama, Khaiwoon …
• what I miss is a collection of links to single “objects”, where you can look-up how to map something, or a list where you can get some inspiration which kind of objects can be mapped to complete a city

So I’ve started a list to collect all of the great places. I will fill the list within the next months. If you know other nice places don’t hesitate to nominate them.

What do you think, is such a list helpful? Do we need more/other categories?

I am really bored so i’m gonna make an ogf travel journal. So I might be doing blue nations first. My location is my starting point

I was looking around and it seems that there may be little emphasis on municipal boundaries on OGF. Is this due to the constant nature of being incomplete or is just lack of interest? Is local government something that is not part of OGF?

I have mapped a few with the intent on altering the boundaries as the community expands or even contracts. I have taken in several factors and they have all presented their own character as to the boundaries have been drawn. Some were mapped with my entry level skill growing to a more novice level.

One example in taking in several factors to boundaries lies with the Town of Lakesite Villages. The town name was even factored into this one. I will give an example of how the boundaries which itself is a work in progress and will change as I look at which parcels should not be within the boundaries of the town.

The town was formed as sort of a resistance to forced annexation from the City of Belleville. Belleville came across the Grand Lake shores and onto land on the opposite side of the lake annexing a parcel of land into the city on Farwood Road. The residents of the then unincorporated areas decided to take action and form a municipality of their own to stop the expansion of the Belleville city limits and it’s high tax burdens. The name could not be agreed upon as each lake finger had a subdivision or community name of it’s own. Since there was no consensus as to which name to take they agreed upon Lakesite Villages. The name coming from the number of lake site homes and the amalgamation of the various communities or “villages” though not actual villages as incorporated communities.

… See full entry

http://opengeofiction.net/way/7958576#map=15/26.35388/100.86546

Hi, I worked a lot on this building, it’s made out of many line segments which I connected to a building area. Now, the building doesn’t show up. Why?

EDIT: Problem solved. Thank you!

I geek over arctic/ antarctic places, and this is what I saw on the south pole of the ogf world http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/-71.1778/9.4599