I am fairly new to OpenGeoFiction, having created an account here last month. I had attempted to start a town off of a highway within 24 hours of joining, but realised I was not all that experienced with making towns and cities in OpenGeoFiction, so I decided to make some tests and try out stuff without saving it to the map for all to see, and started thinking about a smaller town idea I could easily make. Recently I created the town of Galentia as my first town I a fully creating, located off of West Central Expressway I-101 in Commonia, designed to be a stop along the highway/motorway on long routes, where you can get gas, food or even stay the night at a hotel. I built it along the motorway West Central Expressway I-101 seeing that a super long stretch of it was empty, had no gas stations along it, or even any population at all. I built it a little ways from the city of Celemberra so that if this were real life, there’d be cars actually consistantly using the nearby motorway and there’d be many people who’d stop in the town of Galentia. The town of Galentia also has some houses and a small population, although is mainly built as a stop for long routes along the nearby motorway. The town of Galentia is currently only being based on my experiences stopping along the highway in the various parts of the USA (I visit family for Thanksgiving on the east coast each year and drive a few hours from the airport to the beach, I live in Western Colorado and drive a few hours to Denver multiple times a year, occasionaly make other long drives throughout the country and in a lot of the drives final destinations I’ve stayed in hotels that are there) to small towns thats main offerings are services that would be mainly used by people who stop off of the highway.

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Sometimes when I was bored without a computer to do any mapping, I would plunge into other user’s diary entries (pardon for prying into those) to dig up at least some things which happened in OGF before I came into OGF.

I decided to compile all of such ‘significant’ events’ in OGF here, along with the supporting diary entries (the dates may be inaccurate).

Key milestones

• 1 September 2013: The launch of the OGF website (by Joschi81 and Thilo)
• 13 June 2013: Presentation of OGF at SotM-EU (video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sk37V0IsB0)
• 22 June 2013: Introduction of ‘purple territories’
• 2 August 2014: Official introduction of OGF wiki
• 22 August 2014: Wishes answered for including images and slippy maps in wiki
• 25 October 2014: Shortening of waiting period for personal territories
• 15 November 2014: [Setting up of OGF:Embassies page] (http://api.opengeofiction.net/user/isle%C3%B1o/diary/134)
• 18 February 2015: New wiki main page launched by Luciano
• 2 June 2015: Introduction of OGN news website
• 7 June 2016: Launch of experimental user’s dashboard by Luciano
• 7 November 2015: Setting up of ‘War and Conflicts’ page
• 20 October-27 November 2015: Period of contients’ and oceans’ names’ elections
• 10 April 2016: Start of translation of About page into other languages
• 7 November 2016: Major collaboration discussion
• 4 March 2017: Official vs unofficial collobarative territories
• 17 April 2017: Lauch of OGF scale tool
• 19 April 2017: New iD launched
• 22 November 2017: Launch of WikiForum

This year (2018) will be OGF’s 5th anniversary. If there could be a suitable time for the grand opening of the western continents and/or AR120, it could be on 01/09/18. Anyway, I can’t believe OGF is turning 5 this year, and I hope for something special to happen this year.

Anyway, it is still slightly too early to take about OGF 2023. But I think we should soon think about the future of OGF soon.

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I started a draft organization called IBA and I collected all the existing TV/Radio call signs. I’m looking forward to establish a standard in call signs of various stations. Though this is not mapping-related, call sign should be taken into consideration when naming HQ buildings for stations.

If a new organization is too much, I might merge it into AN-affiliated ITA.

Any suggestions?

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https://i.imgur.com/aysuOEW.png

I was wondering if this can be done and is realistic.

Also if i can move my boundaries of my country to “Adjust to islands”.

Also i have JOSM if you ask…

Edited: Why it still says “Seysia”? How i can remove that?

So yeah, I’ve got to the point where Monmouth is pretty large and it’s got enough suburbs. And Hareby hasn’t got that much space left, either. So, I might as well open it to you lot, since pretty much all of you are much more experienced and overall better than me at this stuff. So, what should I do with Monmouth? Please be specific, telling me to ‘put in more detail’ doesn’t quite tell me what I should do, more what you want to happen over a long amount of time.

Hello to the OGF World!

I read in some of the history books how Maria Theresa, queen of Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, after some land were liberated from the ottoman rule decided to freely give large parts of land to the peasants from all around her kingdoms. So I decided to do something similar. ;)

As I noticed that as I’m mapping I start to repeat the same schema everywhere. So to introduce some diversity I’ll give a possibility to the everyone here to map some lands of my country. As my way of the mapping is largely historical - I start some town in the medieval ages and develop it modifying, changing, adapting urban elements to the new centuries - so we are going to do it that way :

imagine you’re somewhere between 1200 - 1800, and you were given the opportunity to take some land, in the countryside or inside some town, and map whatever you want : some family farm, manufacture, family countryside villa, shrine, college, etc. and name it - and it will be integrated in my work - i’ll develop it and it might become: town, protected historical heritage …

*Explore little bit my country : http://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/-45.4438/36.5323

*Explore the topography: http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/images/f/fc/TOPO_map_of_Montran.png

*the north of the country is reserved for French, west for Danish and rest for English

*the north is Switzerland-Austria like, south-west Tuscany like, and the rest: north France, north Germany, south England, Benelux like.

*be creative, be free, map wherever you want, do not delete existing elements and good luck!

*no permissions needed

I hope you will be generous ;)

A month ago I was doing random things around Commonia, West Commonia… But now that I’m back I started a new little village that is called Andalúzida. Please go and tell me what do you think of it

Anyone know what happened to the cities of West Montague Shores, Valarauco and Valicia in Gobrassanya??

So, yeah, I’m back doing random stuff in Commonia. This place called Monmouth, to be precise. If you go to New Commonia now, you’ll find Monmouth is probably one of the main settlements there. I’ll go through the suburbs first, largest to smallest. Hareby is a small city / large town to the east of Monmouth Proper, and is probably about half the size of Monmouth. It lies entirely within the district, though a few of the houses are just metres from the city border with the District of Springwood, and has it’s own castle and services on the M607. Parkwood (and Holton) is a small town in the / to the north of Monmouth, and is right next to the reservoir and local beauty spot. It lies entirely within the district, and is a fair way away from the border, the closest near Randen and Lleaby. It also encompasses the borough of Holton, a small-ish area in the north of the town. Mountainside is a small town / large village to the north / north east of Monmouth, and is near the intersection of the M67, M607 and M602. It lies just south of the regional park, and is near the very middle of the district, the nearest border being all the way over in Randen. Parkway is a small village / borough in the west of Monmouth, swallowed by the city. It is near the actual road called the Parkway, and can be reached easily by both inner and outer ring roads. It has two schools and a housing estate. Randen is a small village to the north-west of Monmouth, right next to the outer border. It is near the M607’s NW corner, and the regional park. It is scaled horribly, but is near a farm and has a duel carriageway to both the Cape Highway in the west, and Mountainside and inevitably the M67 to the east.

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Fellow mappers,

(Last updated on 12 April 2018)

I made a bus line to integrate nearby settlements to the village Dardis Heights (a settlement I am developing) better in order to be more connected with nearby settlements.

There is a local service and an express service for this bus line because urban resident s are unlikely to visit rural settlements but are likely to visit other urban areas to work or to spend their time in.

Currently, I have numbered these bus lines 1 and 1X (X indicating express service) as I plan to make a few more bus lines in the future. I have noticed that the bus line also runs on the road SS1, which is a nice coincidence and made me consider if numbering the bus lines to the road it travels on is a good idea or not.

It would be appreciated if you have any constructive suggestions and criticisms regarding this topic and my ideas (above and below). Moreover, if you notice any mistakes, typos and errors in my writing please reply to notify/correct me.

I thank you for your time and attention,

– TCC

Future Bus Route Ideas

I have a few ideas on the routes of future bus lines, including a long route that roughly follows the coasts, but often detouring on and off of the main motorway (M1) to serve settlements nearby.

Another idea is a route from Omoriworth (considering terminus) heading northwest until it turns right and follows RNR 132, then follows RNR 108, OA1, RNR 10 all the way north to Rose City or even to Querryville (also considering terminus). Here I would have a numbering problem if I was to number it corresponding to the road it travels on and so I want some feedback on this numbering idea.

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I thought that I’d try and make my first train map for my town, St. Botolph.

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Hey everyone,

this is a semi-survey sort of diary entry where I’m trying to figure some stuff out. My question for everyone is how you guys go about making detailed mountain ranges (landuse layers to make it look realistic, number of nodes, node placement, etc.). I really hope you can all help. Comments are much appreciated!!!

Cheers, Geoboi

Each neighbourhood of the city of Edetanea, in Castilea Archantea has an organised group of people, the Casalea fallerea, that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners. Each casalea fallerea produces a construction known as a fallea which is eventually burnt. A casalea fallerea is also known as a comissió fallerea and currently there are approximately 500 registered in Edetanea. The Edetanea Fire Festival will take place on March, when the Old Town of Edetanea will be insanely fine detailed. I’ll look forward to your visit! Happy mapping!

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-16.32749/129.83557

So, I’ve been working on this for a little while now. I still plan on working on Tempora, but for now, my main focus is here. I’ve made Albert as the capital of the nation, with two smaller cities nearby named Evenson and New Peace. The downtown region of the city is composed of the old city and the new region surrounding it. What do you guys think of the city?

I guess Kalavsky and Herzevodnia is my country (that i map) and i think, i should continue mapping it? (Yes it is based on Bosnia and Herzagovina with an a language in a combination of Romanian, Croatian and Russian) but the region where i am there is no one who do that, everyone as been colonized in my neighborhood.

Now that i have JOSM i can map more fast.

Can I use the term dagwon for use in Buildtionian Ingerish? Actually the term came from the anime Yuusha Shirei Dagwon (1996 iirc) and the term in the anime means “brave hero” in an alien language; thus this might violate OGF verisimilitude rules. But unfortunately there is a city called Tengah which contains a large portion of real world names (Hatta, Paku Buwono &c; see location in link) so perhaps it is ok to add the term to Buildtionian Ingerish–I would like to rename the Buildtionian National Armed Forces into the Buildtionian National Dagwons, the Army, Navy and Air Force into Land, Naval and Air Dagwons respectively.

Dear all, in this page of the diary, I update you on the last main interventions in the mapping of the territory of Gardensa.

First, in the capital, Giliarca, the San Fortunio Underground Railstation (not a subway station, but an ordinary train station located underground, on the model of several existing underground railway stations, like Penn Station in NY or the recent station of “Porta Susa Sotterranea” in Turin, Italy).

[20180214 Update… Ah: the district surrounding the San Fortunio Station is a financial area where all banks have set up a branch: if you have a bank in your country, choose a nearby building not already tagged, so tag it with your bank and send me a message or a comment below to let me know!]

Secondly, always in Giliarca, the Indaco Amphitheater, on the banks of the homonymous river.

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Hi guys I’am sorry but I wasn’t active that much for the last few weeks. I wanted to say that I will map more in Malavsko with a new plan for my country.

Hi everyone

this is a copy of my topic posted on the forum. Sorry for this, but for some reason no one is answering there…

I’m here to ask feedback about the work I’m doing in my first country, Brennland. I’ve started mapping using the in-browser tool, but I’ve switched to JOSM last week. I’ve sketched a part of the main river, Brenne, which flows from the northern part of Brennland towards the big lake in the south. Having very precise ideas about a particular area of the country, I’ve started mapping at a high detail level from a very small city, Freienfeld, in the northern part of Brennland, and its surrounding area (61.8252, 54.6268) This is an area of big mountains and quite wide valleys, an “alpine” scenario, like the ones of the big valleys of Austria or South Tyrol (Italy). I’m asking for a feedback, as this is my first attempt in mapping such complicated areas (and a whole Country). In the recent past I’ve mapped a bigger city, Dominton, in Midistland (38.3351, 93.5067).

Thank you and happy mapping to everyone!

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