Ketonha Island Republic, most notably for its biggest city, Kia’Wana (also the capital) has decided to establish its borders and form its own Island Territory. Siy’aho Beach, the southern most city on Kamora Island, lies approx 8 miles (13 KM) from the shores of Commonia. The growing cities on the chain of islands have grown independent and a vote that took place across the islands, including Acora Island, Fulton Island, Kamora Island and Kia’wana Island decided the fate of the Island State. Acora Village, a small gated village that comprises of 98% of the islands population, voted 100% in favor of independence. The border follows from the north eastern corner of Laugar to the south eastern corner stretching to just south of the corner of Kamora Island. A further vote will be held to decide the governor of the territory. It has been stated numerous times that it doesn’t wish to break ties with Charlington and doesn’t present hostility, just a wish for independence that a majority of the population feel is needed.

From Blank Slate to Metropolis in 28 Days

It already feels like it’s been months since the City Sprint, but no—just a week and a half has passed! In that time I’ve continued working on Al-Kaza’s capital city, Canan-Yar. Rather than writing a bliki post, I decided to introduce the city to the wider community in the diaries, since…well, no one comments on bliki posts anymore. 😅

The gif above is actually from right after the sprint ended, so it only shows the progress that was made during the 28 days of February. Since then I’ve continued to build out detailed building cover in the downtown area, and have now finished the Esas Borsa (the CBD) and the Istasyon Semt (Station District) and am about two-thirds of the way through the Sivil Daire (Civic Circle), which is the main center of operations for both the city and the federal governments.

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Good morning. I thought about cleaning my territory Mordeto (AN148) and restart with it. The admins told me that I can make it by using JOSM, but i don’t know how to use it. Can anyone help me telling me how to do it?? Thanks

Hey everyone,

As you know, most countries in OGF have maritime boundaries, but they are not consistent with tagging. There are typically 4 variants:

1. boundary=administrative and admin_level=2 (like regular boundaries)
2. boundary=administrative and maritime=yes
3. boundary=administrative, maritime=yes and admin_level=2
4. boundary=maritime and border_type=territorial (I personally used this one)

However, according to OSM standards, I propose that we all start to use this one:

boundary=administrative, admin_level=2, maritime=yes and border_type=territorial.

This will be very useful for consistency, and it also prevents the maritime boundaries from rendering at low zoom levels (which makes the map clearer and better-looking).

Happy mapping!

Hello,

I’m sure most people on OGF have at least heard of the World News Center, but, if you haven’t, it was a database aimed at reporting emerging/breaking news all around the OGF World. But, as I look, the site is rarely updated, and only by the same few reporters. Also, I cannot find a way to edit in this site, so I’m not sure as to why OGF has dropped the name from its main site’s top taskbar and forgotten about it. You can find the site here: [https://ognnews.wordpress.com/]

If anyone remembers this, good for you! If you can answer my questions, thank you! If you have no idea what this is, keep mapping along. Thanks everyone!

-CharlieG of Artenia

I made a new town in Gobrassanya. Feedback?

Soo… yea. This sounds a bit odd, but trust me, you’d probably understand it when i’m done writing. Soo, just quick, a logographic script is a script that is based of pictures, logos. It is pretty much like egyptian hieroglyphs, but here i want to create a twist.

So there should be a common understanding OGF “language” that all, even those who aren’t good at English, could learn: Here i want to show you:

![LANGSCRIPT] (https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/477877684785905665/553919801802752020/unknown.png?width=678&height=670)

You can pronounce if you want but all consonants are pronounced with an a vowel after, and all vowels are pronounced with an IO after.

gabaaioga = the animal eats poisonous food

Today my colleagues at work discovered my activities on OGF for the first time - which is odd when you think about it, because I have been working for my current employer since November 2017 and regularly add things on my OGF maps during lunch breaks using my work computer where everyone can see me, so I guess they weren’t really paying attention until now :)

They thought I was playing some computer game; they mentioned a name but I forgot it (I haven’t played any computer games since - I guess - Supaplex in the late ’90s so I’m not really familiar with computer games at all) but it turned out to be what they thought of as the ‘background’ of those games. I think they were kind of impressed by the possibilities of OGF; if one of them tries it out I will be pleased but I think it’s not “active” enough for them.

They did comment on my mapping though. I have been working on Wyster lately and they suggested that the international airport of Hreawirc (the capital of Wyster) isn’t very accessible at the moment, so I should create a highway towards it. They could be right, but I’m not sure that it should be a highway. Wyster being a tiny country, it has enough highways already, I think. But a more prominent connection to the city should be made; I’ll put it on my list.

Did you share your OGF activities with friends, family, colleagues? What was their reaction?

Even though colonization is pretty non-existent, couldn’t there be some “remaining” pieces of colonies like the falkland islands of the U.K.

For example, my Hifnakia claims a little area in eastern Gobrassanya called Tranquenstein and i claim north-eastern UL-074 as Pelsbock.

But it is only autonomous and partially controlled by Hifnakia.

Soooooooooo… What do y’all think?

Happy Women’s Day to OGF!!!

(if there are any in OGF)

Many people would be pleased if the number of former ingerish colonies and ingerish influenced coutries were not so important. But what else ?

In my particular case, my country (see “Sudharka” in the wiki) wasn’t properly colonized by Ingerland. I decided to explain its technological and political modernity by a “european” adviser who helped the local prince in modernizing the country. But, of course, this man was ingerish, and I think I would change this.

So, my question is : where else could he have been from ? (Whether is was ingerish-speaker or not, because I could also speak French, a bit of Spanish, and maybe try to learn a bit of something else for OGF.) What are the other early-develloped, (colonist) countries that could sometimes replace Ingerland in explaing the cultural uniformity ?

I hope you have interesting ideas for answering this question.

Why it is it? UK in real life is strong in navy because is an island, and its more practical defending the sea rather than defending the own land (wich leads to domestic loss and domestic loss leads to unable to colonize properly), UK was really strong because its navy protected him a lot, (without his navy UK very probs lost WW1 and WW2), UK used its navy to navigate trough the world, and trough making many colonies around it (US,Australia,New Zealand,India,West Indies, and many other countries), so it happens exactly in OGF Ingerland with FSA and more countries, but i think Ingerland should be a secondary power like france, wich had many navy but not like UK, but had a lot of more soldiers, in contrast to UK, Ingerland is not an island so it will be more concentrated on protecting his mainland, even trough ignerland had islands off coast, it would need to still defend its mainland, navy would be secondary thus making everything hard for ingerland (Unleast its an switerzeland but thats fucking impossible since colonizing isn’t neutral act, and will un-neutralize it).

Good morning-evening,

I map the Free Principality of Sudharka (TA097b) and, since I am a rather recent user of OGF, I wonder about the history of this territory before I took possession of it. Just for the sake of curiosity.

Could any experienced user tell me what were there before ?

And, oh, by the way, what do you think about my country ?

Hi there, I’m the new owner of UL156 (now U̶l̶e̶t̶h̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶U̶n̶i̶o̶n̶ Ulerolånd) - and I want to share it with you

Some basic information about U̶l̶e̶t̶h̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶U̶n̶i̶o̶n̶ Ulerolånd

U̶l̶e̶t̶h̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶U̶n̶i̶o̶n̶ Ulerolånd (UU for short) is an immigrant country mixed together with culture from all over West Uletha. *Population: around 8 000 000 people *Languages: Ingerish (Official Language) / Galician / Bloregian / Eäßnordælåndic *Capital city: Ülegro *Government: Direct Democracy

Todo list

1. Say hi to the neighbors
2. Map everything
3. (If possible) join VEC
4. Map even more
5. Profit™
6. Build some embassies
7. (Maybe?) get an exclave with sea access for port
8. Even more Profit™

But what about MisterBean and his plans?

Well, as you can see on a map: a southern part of UL156 was cut away, stuck together with UL157 and then added to the earlier cut half of UL159 and called UL157 - made especially for MisterBean to build his fascist nation in :3

EDIT: Chilled and made name smaller. Also added Eäßnordælåndic.

I recently entered this community. I created a city called Garcia City (it was the first thing that came to mind) and I wanted to know if I did it right, please be honest. ps: the city is in andalaz, in careemoon Thank you

Ps2: my inglish is relly bad :)

Hello OGF community! I have recently completed the planning of the Déserts mapping, but I still have a question. I know that the Nile is a river that crosses the desert, but since there is a some narrow space between the sea and the desert, the rivers will be viable in my country or not? Please comment.

Is anyone else requesting UL207?

1. I have tried to upload a “GPS” file by typing in coordinate data into a plain text file according to .gpx file format, however it seems like the file disappeared immediately, and the link on that page was also not giving any OGF-specific information with only a link to OSM. Anyone know what’s wrong?
2. I have tried to edit OGF with an app called Go Map!! but it’s keep telling me I have bad user name when I try to login into my OGF account even after changing the login server to OGF’s api server. Is this a problem in the application?
3. I have also tried to edit OGF using the web iD editor, but it’s having the same restriction as the iD editor on the OSM service that make it pretty much impossible to plan or edit any large scale features using the editor directly. Is there any possibility to change that restriction to make it more suitable for OGF’s need?

I Have A Draft Town , In my country , called Burnieside - Devonport , supposed to be sized for about 800,000 people and i wonder if my streets are too far apart .

I want to make a large city of 1 million+ people. My city currently has 50,000 residents and I need help expanding. If anyone wants to edit Taimatsu, West Commonia, then ur welcome!

Connection to transport

## Please not too many motorways xD So I want to connect my city up to: * Railway / subway systems * Highways, though only 3. I already am connected to 1 so I need 2 more. Also, If anyone wants to extend the great ocean road feel free to do so. This road is going to be only Primary, not like a Motorway. * Rivers, though only 2. We already have the Dorian’s mouth. I am thinking another river can go Inwards and link to the Dorian circa fifty Kilometres down the line. However, 2 rivers is a lot and I might just avoid that option. However, what are your opinions on this?

• Ferry Routes, going to major Commonian Cities and to South Island Locations!

Thanks!