Hey everyone,

You know how people say that you should look at your own painting in the mirror so you could know if it’s good? Well, I tried to do that with OGF maps, like this:

This way, you won’t recognize your own maps, so it will be easier to tell if it’s good.

What do you all think about this?

Edit: the point is that if you can’t look at your own maps objectively, a mirrored image could help you have a different perspective.

Is there a possibility to make routemaps in the wiki like on wikipedia? for example like this one

Thank you Guys!

happy mapping

Lars

Well, iam starting taking a step for a continous mapping and not too much diary entries… i only setting the country house style… i like to know if this are too little or is a rare desing (Little houses/stores are poor ones) Oh sorry if is incomplete (Iam expanding road and making details such grass, trees, etc.) and sorry for many entries… oh and thanks to everyone for all their diary entries! (they answered some of my questions so there is no need of Overdiaryfication)

Hi!

I’ve been editing a lot today (I started about 2 hours ago) and none of the edits has appeared on the map (normally after this amount of time, most of them would have appeared at least if viewed in incognito window of the browser). Is there some kind of problem with the map?

Eevee

Well, I just joined for the first time and I want to ask if there is a possibility to make a project outside of the “blue” countries, because as I have seen it looks like all territories noted in the wiki are already taken. Correct the poor noob if you can.

Hello It has been a year of me doing some mediocre mapping However, it has definitely gotten better

insert juxtapostion

And could I have some feedback on Durnovaria

Durnovaria was established in the 1950s to assert sovereignty over the peninsula it is situated on

I can’t do it, help me plz.

Hi, i like to know how embassy work who builds the embassy ex: if someone tells that X country will have an a embassy at a Y country, who will build it, the X country or Y country?

PD: (Sorry for my previus diary entry xD)

Many hundreds of years ago when all the world was ocean the Great Seamonster swallowed a particularly large and tasty tuna fish. The fish stuck in her throat, but with her immense strength she ground it down and crushed it until all that was left was a compact stone, the size of a large pebble. Wanting to be rid of it, she coughed it up onto the surface of the sea.

It floated there, growing to become a reef, and then an island. The reef was strong and surrounded a large lagoon, in which was another tiny island. On the top of the island was a mound and near the mound was a tree, a fig tree, which birds from all over the world came to, and ate. The Great Seamonster was frustrated, since she was too large to reach the island over the reef.

The birds that came to eat the figs flew all over the world, dropping seeds into the ocean. The seeds grew to become islands themselves and where many seeds dropped together, mountain ranges formed. This went on for hundreds of years, and for all this time the Great Seamonster was frustrated, since she couldn’t climb over the reef to reach the tree. Meantime, plants and animals, growing from the fig seeds, spread over all the new lands in the oceans.

The Great Seamonster nursed her rage and devised a plan. She hunted down a marlin and, as with the tuna fish, she swallowed it and crushed it in her gullet. Coughing it up, out came a pebble which floated on the sea and grew into a coco de mer. Soon the nut became the first woman, Kitani, who populated the world. Her children spread to all the islands.

Although the Great Seamonster had meant Kitani to find the fig tree and destroy it, Kitani was wise. She swam to the island of the fig tree and lived there for hundreds of years, looking after the tree. When she died, her children protected the tree. The Seamonster’s rage continued.

… See full entry

Hello, fellow mappers.

I apologize for being a few days late with this month’s challenge. For this month, we have something quite simple—a type of micro-mapping. The idea here is to come up with more localized services in your country to make the place more realistic. There are a few guidelines for this challenge, too.

The theme is “keep clean and stay pretty.” What does this mean? Find a small community or two in your country and put grooming and hygiene places. These could include barbershops, hairdressers, salons, stylists, boutiques, beauty-supply shops, etc. Think about the culture of your country a bit. Are there communal baths? Are manicures or pedicures a cultural expectation? Are there religious attire vendors or groomers that need to be near houses of worship? There are a lot of creative ways to go here, and I’d love to see something interesting.

Now a few guidelines:

• Your submission should be something new and created during the calendar month of November (or the first few days of December)
• No international companies—keep it local!
• Don’t just put a point on a map. Place the building, parking, sidewalk, etc.

What am I going to be doing? I don’t know yet. I have a couple ideas. What do you think you might do? Show your fellow mappers below.

Happy mapping!

Iam doing all fine what is happening?

Hi!

I made my first airport a few days ago. I know almost nothing about airports, so I’d like to get some feedback. Is it realistic at all? What would you change? If the airport is realistic, I will add more details to it (grass, some buildings, parking areas, ref codes…).

The airport is the main airport of Suursaari (the capital of Eelanti).

Thanks for your feedback!

It may be me being impatient, but do we have a rendering engine slowdown ? Even very small edits (and not coastline-related, for that matter) more than 5 hours ago do not show up .

And I was just planning to move a complete section of subway, imagine…

Marcello.

I am taking a 2 week break from OGF, because I wish to retreat from the anger and frustration this site gives me sometimes. Dear OGF, please stand while I am away. Don’t let yourself be shattered to pieces by irrelevancy. Please don’t.

I’ve being trying to fix an issue with a pair of intersections in one of my towns, and the issue is exclusively with the Directions/Pathfinding ability on OGF. Find linked HERE the issue at hand.

To explain, I have a one-way system on both roads, which is correctly laid out, but the directions don’t seem to acknowledge the existence of the A4 highway. I’ve relaid every section of the highway to fix it, totally delete the interchange and then rebuild it from scratch. I don’t see a reason why the directions don’t see the A4 highway as existing, and I pride myself on having all roads navigable with the direction tool, so this is frustrating me a tiny bit.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Keep Up The Mapping

• Aces California

Hi all,

After going through the OGF Wiki, I got some inspiration and decided to make a “Lonely Planet” like Travel Guide company

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Sociable_Planet

Following that, I thought that maybe perhaps we could expand on this and each country if they decide to, could make their own “Sociable Planet” travel guide to his/her country. I think this would be a great idea as it would allow users to express their creativity and vision of their nation to other users.

Please feel free to comment and discuss this.

Many thanks, Tommypoo

(Not to copy the previous one xD) What are the font of road signs in your country? In my country it is Myriad Pro. But in your fictional country, not the real!

So you can show an image or just describe them.

If you have a specific list of different kinds varying by state, you can.

Most people who know me, know that my flagship city is Igwepir. Lately, I’ve added/changed some parts of it:

• Bergtorf - made the street network more realistic
• Flusstat - mapped the whole district from scratch
• Neu-Igwepir - changed the streets around the railways

So what do you all think?

Does anyone have a good example of mapping good looking resort hotels and/or golf courses/country clubs?

I have a few resort areas that I am looking to spruce up.