The last week I’ve been seeing the fantastic work that @bhj867 and other users are doing with the citi of Breassau, in Midistland. It would be great to have a planned proyect for the city like in Gobras city. I would like to work in a proyect that sems to be really interesting. So, what do you think?

I think that Breassau it a gerat oportunity for create modern city who isn’t like ALL the regular cities with enormous suburbs that we can see in USA…

It would be very interesting to left down your opinions and share with all of us…

Have a nice weekend. Guillermo

I need some serious help, I’ve messed something up big time! So I’m working on changing the tags for roads in San Vale and Breassau State, and I deleted a bunch of roads from around San Vale and to the west of it, but somehow it didn’t delete all the nodes, so now there are blank nodes everywhere, and I can’t get rid of them all! Can somebody come and help please? I’m not sure at all how it happened!

Hi there,

Due to some OSM research, it just became clear to me that I possibly overused footways a lot in my cities…

See here or here.

I extensively use footways as “real” footways. However, It seems that in the OSM commuity, this is really uncommon. Footways seem only to be used if they are not situated directly alongside a road.

What do you think? Is my way of using footways totally wrong and I should delete them? Or is this usage tolerable?

Greetings, Markus

OK so after I had my mapping moved from Commonia over to my own territory I am now starting to fix some of the old mapping issues. I am trying to best figure out how to fix this situation in the western part of Prentice County.

I originally mapped this area with US 101 as a coastal North to South route that services this area with a bridge over the Islip River. I also then built a trunk route facility SR 50 (State Road 50) on the north shore of the Islip River to link up Riegerston to the coast with a bridge over the Islip River close to US 101.

Now the issue is this. This would seem to be an expensive venture with an unneeded crossing so close to the other crossing. Also CR 493 (County Road 493) would now seem to overloaded with traffic. CR 493 serves a built up area with upscale homes and shopping areas. This as mapped is the only current way to get to Danica Beach. I think I originally intended to give service to Holloway Beach but ended up mapping Danica Beach as a resort area that would seem to have more folks traversing.

I see a couple of options here. Should i just remap SR 50 to serve the north shore and chalk this up to a mapping error? Should I close off the US 101 bridge and make it a fishing pier and then link a new alignment over to the SR 50 bridge?

We have an IRC channel. I know that much. However… IRC is on its way out, and I was wondering if there was another communication platform that we already use - e.g. Discord, Slack, etc.

Does such a thing already exist outside of the IRC channel?

~ Kurzov/Katav

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I am fixing this. I don’t know who did it. But I am going to make this look like a much nicer city. This is TRUNK ROAD OVERLOAD. No No No No No No No. Wont delete anything, but a simple change in road type will make this look like a much more appealing location. As a senior editor I am making an executive decision on this one. Just for the sake of visual appeal of the overall map.

I always wonder, where are the world’s oil fields?

I happen to be on a desert, and since Saudi Arabia in real life sits on a desert, I wonder if my country has a large oil field.

As well after see the 140 countries (Or more). i see that no one have an anthem song. i think that it will make OGF more realistic. as well a anthem is easy to do by computer.

It was my goal to finish the city of Siuvna in Garlis before mid-october, the whole city and suburban area up to the “everything-but-buildings” level of detail. That’s because this is the start of a period where I have only very little time for OGF. However, I did not succeed. But that’s not too bad, I like the city very much so far (not everything, but the majority). What do you think?

There’s one important language issue: Garlis was supposed to be Romanian-speaking, but things developed a bit differently and it seemed more logical that the “homeland” of Romanian in OGF is Antharia. So user @stjur supposed that the Garlian language, which is his creation, might be some type of “Proto-Romanian” - and I liked this idea very much. The problem was (and still is) that I don’t speak Romanian and I’m also not good at imagining a “proto-Romanian” language, due to my missing knowledge of Romanian language evolution. So here I want to thank @stjur for his help with naming streets and squares and all the hints he gave me for the language. At least the place names (towns, cities, villages, suburbs) are almost all my own creations.

I have to reduce my mapping time in OGF during the next months, but I hope that I can spent an hour or two from time to time.

Happy mapping!

Johannes

(Don’t mix this up with the “real history” of the name “Uletha”. I have no idea about that yet, or is there something written in the Wiki?)

When did the name “Uletha” come up? Already in 2010 I imagined the continent around Kalm, where the cities of Forberg (the first city I developed in Kalm) and Tarott are located. It took a while until it got its name, but it must have been at some time in summer 2010 that I found the name, together with a good friend of mine. We wanted to find a nice name, starting with a voal, but not with A or E (and yes, maybe also not O) :) and we both liked “Uletha” as a continent name. “Ulethaplatz” metro station of U7 metro line in Tarott was the first appearance of the name on the map, before the start of OGF. (See also this very old and bad quality version of the original Tarott map). Later, I called the old harbour re-development area around Ulethaplatz “Ulethastadt”.

In summer 2013 I sketched the first version of the Uletha outline in OGF, and Thilo did the other continents of the old world (I liked his ones a bit more, Uletha is in some points a bit too close to “Eurasia”). Before the OGF Uletha outline sketch I only had had a very rough idea of the north-western part of the continent.

(By the way: At the time I imagined the harbour of Tarott, I also imagined the name of one of the continents of the so “new world” in OGF: Ereva and one of the harbour bassins got the name “Erevahafen”. I did not name it in the OGF map yet, but you can see it on this old original Tarott map (at Q10). Later I was happy, because the name was chosen for the respective continent in an OGF continent naming competition.)

So, this is how the name developed. I just wanted to give you some details here.

Happy mapping!

joschi81

I have two questions about Nominatim. Firstly, names of places I mapped in recent days (e.g. Kreserheim, a suburb of Galmosen (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/55.9625/46.2926)) do not show up in a search.

Secondly, when I go to the Nominatim page for OGF, the search results that do work are shown on a real world map.

Guys, global warming is real. What happens to Archanta?

Fell seems to be not working.. help

I started my own territory. The islands at the southermost tip of this continent.

I really wanted to edit the coastline since i thought it was too straight. But i have some issues on how to edit the coastlines. Can you please help on steps on how to edit this feature? I know about the visual in the wiki. But i just want more understanding of the coastline so that i can give more detail to the coastline without destroying or redoing the entire island’s coastline.

Thanks,

AndJO

Hi everyone. I’m new here. I barely know how to use any of the editors. Just downloaded JOSM a few minutes ago. I’ve been doing everything in iD, but the tutorial didn’t work for me when I tried to use it, so I’m doing everything by trial and error.

Anyway, I’d done some edits around Gobrassanya and I noticed a town called Authou with only the major roads, railroad, and urbanized area drawn. I decided to focus on Authou and try to develop it into a full-fledged town. It’s near Artana, and I think of Authou as a small town that turned into a bustling suburb. I’m thinking of American cities like Olive Branch, MS, Franklin, TN, and Marietta, GA.

I still want to fix the A270/19 interchange and the western 19/Academy Street intersection, and add an interchange between A70 and 465/Hickman Road. I also need to extend 465/466 further. If I define the city limits, they’ll go out to all the highways and include the A70/A270 interchange.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Anything I’m doing horribly wrong I should change? Anything I’m doing right I should keep doing?

Hello everyone, nice to meet you guys, I haven’t talked a lot here even I’ve been active for several months right now.

I want to ask some advice from you guys about one of my first city called Puerto Esperanza, a riverside town that used to be a big industrial city but decaying because the industries went bankrupt. But the government want to make it as a tourist city.

So, what I want to ask: 1. Does the layout is enough for a city for 3mil population? 2. Does Puerto Esperanza need any mass transport beside bus? 3. Is there anything in particular such as infrastructure etc that needed to sustain the city to be tourist city?

The city economy itself resemblant from mid economy cities like Penang, Malaysia, and Cartagena, Colombia. I hope you guys get what I mean, any advice would be very good for me, and Thank you! :)

Puerto Esperanza

Bloregia, Inara, Pretany, Shilesia, Utterland and Welstand-Westrijk have already started the first steps of the formation of a Northwestern Uletha Union. This is more than just a paper empire feeding. More than just a fictional agreement. This pretends to be a real agreement between users, reflected on the fictional ground of OGF, in order to share experience and work together for the development of the area. At this point, we are discussing a constitution draft. Make me know if anyone of the next countries are interested to join:

Garlis, Kalm, Ventria, Isztianorszag, Grossherzogtum Ertelden, Ionadalba, Wesmandy, Cernou, Tircambry, Nordurland, Rutstinaskunta Ylevälfivet, Vinnmark, Koban, Galicja, Lanyenja, Svedonia, Pohjolsmaa nad Vandern.

i just started mapping on this site a week ago.

I just want some advice to how to make my city better. I want to start a new country, but I want to finish to what I have started. I tried going to that old European city and then with suburbs spreading out at the outskirts. I still want to ask you dear mappers to what I should do to my city more to make it look better. Thanks. JOMO.

The different seas and bays seem to have no name tags on the OGF map. Searching the wiki reveals that some of the major seas do have agreed-on names like Vinn Sea, Belphenian Sea etc. Is there a reason these names don’t appear on the map? I think having name-tags for international waters would be helpful, especially for new users who are trying to get an overview of OGF. It would also be a significant symbolic sign that users communicate and collaborate successfully. Is this an admin issue?