Hello Everyone,

I have been here for at least 5 months, and I still don’t think that my mapping skills have gotten any better since Day 1. I am still very dissatisfied with my work and am willing to delete it all if needed. If anyone reading this has the time, could you please criticise my work in a comparison from Day 1 to now. I will not be disclosing the time I worked on it to give a fair atmosphere. Please give any advice, even if it is to delete it all and start over. Also, if I am to start over, I am wondering if I should start with all the roads connecting the big cities, then the small cities, then work on the big cities, then small. Any criticism is accepted, thanks.

Thanks, Zekiel

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/-17.6844/21.6774 http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-18.0532/21.7353 http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-17.6257/22.4855 http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/-17.5735/21.9392 http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-16.9975/21.7511

PS: Thank you for taking the time to review this. I really appreciate it.

A couple of hours ago, I changed the designation of several roads in Utterland to convert them into highway N11 (a primary road all the way) in http://opengeofiction.net/changeset/439480 . The changeset shows in the history, but is not reflected not on the map. Can anyone help?

Can someone please make an image of the location in Ünglend like that ? . Please.

I was just wondering, is there an equivalent of Greek Life (or of the country Greece) in OGF as far as fraternities and sororities are concerned?

I was considering mapping a “Greek Village” of sorts on some of my college campuses for fraternities and sororities. It was then I was reminded there is no Greece. “Well then”, I thought to myself, “that could be an issue.” XD

Maybe something like “Latin Life”?

Part of me thinks it’s a bad idea to have them anyways so if there isn’t a good equivalent I’ll probably just leave them out of my society altogether to avoid grappling with things like widespread hazing, but it would be helpful to know. Thanks.

Hi everyone ! I’ve tried to make a map showing where the main languages are spoken. Maybe that can help and inspire people. It must be completed and modificated as long as countries change and new ideas come. Hope you like it. Cheers !

I have rediscovered some shortcuts I found a few months ago. I had forgot what they were until now. Here are 3 undocumented tools on the ID editor I found through chance. They seem to be little known and inaccessible without these shortcuts; I have not seen them mentioned elsewhere on OGF, or on the wider internet. ## Navigable map Bring up a small map of your surrounding area on the top left of the screen. It can be used to jump large distances by dragging the map. This can be activated by pressing the forwards slash (/) key. ## Wireframe view: Does what it says on the tin. Press the W key. ## Information box: Select an object and a tab appears in the bottom right of the screen. This gives the object’s ID, and its length if it is a line, and the object’s perimeter and area if it is an area. Press Ctrl+I.

I hope this makes ID a bit more bearable for its users.

EDIT: All 3 functions are listed on the ‘shortcuts’ page of the OSM wiki. They are quite easy to miss and are not separated from the standard functions, however.

Hey Guys,

Sorry for my second question this week: Is there a possibility to make own Infoboxes, I tried it, but it didn’t work? What did I do wrong?

Link to wiki page

Thanks!

happy mapping, Lars

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.