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Posted by indyroads on 19 July 2014 in English.

with 4 major airports located within a 50 mile swath t is recommended that once the Kenrich international airport is completed that the Pembrook airport become an executive or municipal airport since it is just a few miles from the Kenrich airport and 25 miles from the Carratta airport and also within a short distance of the Puerto Geo airport.

Also I have begun construction of a new bypass of Kenrich metro A 409 which will connect the carratta raegion Kenrich and Pembrook to the new airport.

Additionaly when drawing city streets the nodes should be connected at each intersection any of them are not connected and simply overalap.

I also added some interchanges along the A-9 dual freeway and upgraded a parkway for better service to downtown Kenrich

Posted by admin on 29 June 2014 in English.

Don’t do that, please!

First, it’s against Openstreetmap’s licensing terms to use their data without attribution.

Second, I think it’s rather uncreative. That’s not what Opengeofiction is about.

If you import small amounts of data from OSM temporarily to use them as an orientation for object sizes, that’s probably OK. But if I see imported data from OSM to be used permanently then I’afraid that I have to delete them.

Thilo

Posted by wangi on 29 June 2014 in English.

What am I missing… I’ve got JOSM setup per the notes in the FAQ. I can successfully download. I can successfully export the data from OSM to a .osm file and then load that into JOSM.

However after movign the data to where I want it now to be and trying to upload I get: “The OSM server ‘http://opengeofiction.net/api/0.6/’ does not know about an object you tried to read, update, or delete. Either the respective object does not exist on the server or you are using an invalid URL to access it. Please carefully check the server’s address ‘http://opengeofiction.net/api/0.6/’ for typos”

Merging layers is the same.

Ideas?

Thanks/L

The idea for draw this place is work on small features with details, like town, farm, port… don’t plan country wide amenities. Main features will be build in time by connecting small ones. Please don’t add motorway, trunk, airport, nuclear powerplan… We will add this later, like in the real world. Any way, you can add some geographic wide feature (river, mountain, forest), but with details.

The country is european designed, mainly french speaking with probably a south-est spanish speaking community.

Please fell free to contribute after your 2 weeks of purgatory.

Location: UL02d
Posted by Aces California on 27 June 2014 in English.

I’ve been sitting on an idea I had for a few days about creating a large Metropolitan Area on the southern coast of Gobrassanya spanning from the border, through Kenrich, through a to-be-constructed Port Arrowick into Puerto Geo.

I’ve always started a little bit closer to the border with Alora, mostly residential, but I would like to know what you all think about this idea.

Location for those who don’t know below…

Location: Old Town, Arowna, Burowic County, Arrowic, Gobrassanya
Posted by KVh on 24 June 2014 in English.

Hello,

I’m new here and I like this website very much. In other geofiction projects my problem always was that I didn’t have the right software to map my country. So this was what I was looking for. I just started building a small Dutch region in Commonia to test my skills (location).

I have a question about this project: I assume this project takes place on a different planet that is similar to Earth in 2014. But does this also mean that the planet have the same characteristics as Earth? So are countries near the equator tropically hot and countries near the poles arctic cold? Do adjacent countries have a common history? In short: Does the location of your territory determine how your territory should look like?

Best, KVh

Hello everyone. Like the title says I have a few questions about the map and the community.

First off is there any “official” ressource like a wiki about the different countries and locations on the map?

If not is there any one designing a country that is either french, english or scandanavian that has an organised metropolitan area that I may possibly join?

Also other then User Diaries and Private Messages are there any other ways that community members communicate. Something like a mailling list or an irc channel?

Anyways thanks for reading again. Hope to see your work progress.

Posted by thilo on 22 June 2014 in English.

As you can see on the overview map, the country of Ísztianország is displayed in purple. This is meant to indicate the new category of “community territories”. Editing in those areas is open to everyone, but in a somewhat more restricted fashion than with the “blue” territories. The goal behind this is to achieve a more unified appearance of the territory with regards to language and culture for the sake of increased realism.

Note also that there’s still a user name displayed for Ísztianország - in this case joschi81 - just as with owned territories. That user however should not be regarded as the territory owner, but rather as an address for the first contact and probably some kind of moderator for the further development.

So the guidelines for taking part in the development of a community territory are as follows:

  • Before you start editing, contact the territory’s moderator to discuss your plans. Maybe it’s even better to have this discussion in a comment thread on our diary page.
  • don’t change existing structures without contacting their creators first
  • discuss your planned creations with other users working in adjacent areas

(Of course, those are probably good practices for blue areas too, but here it’s official policy). Also those guidelines are kind of tentative, let’s just see how it works out.

Hi all,

those of you who already “passed” their two-weeks testing phase and thus have the right to claim a territory are welcome to claim a part of Ísztianország (Estiansia) now. Please ask me via my inbox if you’re interested and I’ll give you some details.

Most important thing - and a challenge of course: the country is Hungarian speaking (and I’m not, actually). Is there any Hungarian speaking OGF member already who would help us with correcting some names or who would even like to participate?

One more important thing: It’s a Western Ulethan* country (which is like Europe on our planet). So: it’s a landscape with viallges and cities that have grown over many centuries. So no (e.g. US-like) grid-style mega-cities here. ;) (well, except if you want to have a part of your city in Barock style or in modern style… but that’s only a part of the respective city then)

Also: The motorway network of the country isn’t very large yet (but growing) and the railway network is quite huge (however, not very dense in rural areas).

*The continent is called “Uletha”

Looking forward to develop this country together with some interested members!

Best Joschi81

Location: Oltwolfsmarkt, Torbe, Atreisië