i’ve done everything the page says on this says , but my country name won’t show up. why?

Hello mappers!

I’ve recently installed JOSM. It indeed makes mapping a lot easier. However I don’t understand how to create islands. When I try, they don’t render correctly, so I assume i’m doing something wrong.

I have an example: I’m currently trying to create two islands in a huge river: [Topech Island] (https://opengeofiction.net/relation/139549#map=13/-39.2806/14.8422), and [Notchien Island] (https://opengeofiction.net/relation/139550#map=12/-39.3494/14.8408). If I remember correctly, I created the coastline on JOSM, created a multipolygon and then went on the ID editor to tag the multipolygon as Island.

However, the islands aren’t showed on the map, only their names are. What did I do wrong?

Thanks and happy mapping!

Hi.

I’ve been having problems with the wiki password. I put in my username and password, and it says the password is incorrect. I then click ‘Forgot Password’, and I put in my username and email to get a temporary password. Then it says no email was ever registered with my account. The only option would be to create a new account, but I don’t think that was allowed on the website. I contacted admin about this 2 weeks ago, but I haven’t gotten any response. This has essentially blocked me from the forums since I returned to OGF a few months ago. I know Admin can be kind of slow sometimes. Should I just wait, or is there something else I can do?

You may know by now that I have erected a little village in western Commonia by the name of Vertbourne. I have been working on it off-and-on for a while, but when I found the perfect territory to request, I had a new wind. What I want to know now: Am I ready to request my first territory (if not, please explain why)?

I look forward to reading your responses!

I have a question to everyone. I’m waiting out for a territory, but still haven’t heard back in some time (asked for UL 212, which I previously owned). Should I wait out and stick with my choice, or try something different?

I’m open to suggestions. UL212 (Mariana) is something i’m proud of, but I have to fix a lot because it was made when I was new to OGF, but somethimes i think a new challenge is also good, and I would like to try perhaps an FSA state and try something totally different from what I’ve ever done.

Thanks

tl;dr

I have been a bit concerned with Mecyna lately, and I thought of proposing new ideas for this blue nation, which is now full of random, jumbled up motorways and too many cities cramped up that does not really make sense.

Many of the motorways/trunk roads and the cities need to be downgraded. Some can be removed as well, such as this motorway that stretches across Glotqua to the other side near Gilagonas via Bellefontaine. Mislabelled settlements as cities can be downgraded to town or village or even a hamlet. This so-called city, for example, can just be a village, likewise for this. Other towns like here can also be further downgraded as well.

As for geography, it looks fine but I feel that the desert plains in neighbouring Elhadia can be extended to the north (which looks like a plain at the moment). The forests could be better drawn like Gobrassanya, but it is not like there are any pro-mappers free to do that. But the detailing can be done much later, or otherwise, forget it if some newbie is going to come and wreck the forests with more motorways. The central area (around the canal) can be wetlands and swamps, while the south can be mountainous as well.

I have some ideas for the culture for the nation as well (read: a bit of history may be involved). So far, the nation is meant to be Florescentian (Portuguese), Castellan (Spanish) and Ingerish influenced. I have my doubts on Iondalban having arrived because it is very far away from Mecyna unless it has already made other deals in other neighbouring nations. Iondalban does not look mapped at all, so why can it be a coloniser?

There has been a slight taboo of having an Ingerish colony, so I thought of possibly Aloran colonisation since it has also made such efforts in nearby Central Archanta. Any other proposed Ingerish-like coloniser is possible. Nothing much to say on Castellan arrival; as stated in the article, it has made efforts to build the canal and there are already former Castellan colonies.

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Hi everyone! I seem to be in the same situation that CaboAzul is in: I am awaiting my territory request decision, and am wondering if anyone has any feedback about my previous city, Bluevista, in case I ever get back to it, and if anyone is willing to collaborate on it.

In feedback, there are already some things implicated by myself way back when, when I was a lousier editor, that I already know of and don’t really want to be brought up:

*Several areas in a long corridor where I was first editing, including Downtown, Candlewick City, and Paseo Hills, are very poorly mapped and way out of scale.

*Some of my divided highways have lanes waaaaaay too close together.

*And finally, exit ramps and such seem to be totally different in scale from each other.

In the collaboration front, anyone is willing to work on Bluevista if they want. Just tell me in the comment section and please follow these guidelines: the streets are similar to Los Angeles (use this as an example), the topography to Vancouver, the climate to Florida, and the history to Portland. Please also take care in smoothing the corners and no more motorways.

Thanks! M2C

So I’m back, and my first order of business is to more or less finish Vertbourne so I can get my dream territory. However, I need some advice and/or help in developing my village.

What in Vertbourne needs improving? How should I go about doing this? How can I make Vertbourne as realistic as possible so admin don’t reject my territory request for the umpteenth time?

Also, is anyone willing to help me work on Vertbourne? A little bit of assistance would be greatly appreciated.

When I finally do get a territory to start mapping in, I think I’d like to have a country geographically like Tuvalu. You know, small and isolated.

But what I want to know is, how would you make an atoll in OGF?

Just a question to the Admins and OGF community: Is it okay if I add some Islands off of the coast of Arcacadiana? Just asking before the great flood happens and everyone gets mad…

Happy Mapping and Sorry in Advance.

Anyone know how to fix this?

I’ve tried to reverse the way of the islet but that didn’t cut it. I haven’t found a solution anywhere yet.

I want the OGF community to know about Déserts. You can see more of it at (https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/D%C3%A9serts) and plans for it at (https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Mapping_Expert/Sandbox). As for the embassies, the details are in OGF: Embassies. Let me know your suggestions and opinions.

I want to make an OGF Canada which has the same terrain as Canada (Western Cordillera/Rockies, Canadian Shield, I don’t need arctic lands, Appalacia) I am hoping to find a place suitable for this

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So revisiting my old project, I found something that I didn’t like to see. In-spite of me calling off the Mostock Metro Project, I found it somewhat disturbing that Hwy 3073 was removed from Turnpike 98 to Mostock Freeway (Now former 3073 – into Slavutych). 3073 was the one thing that defined the grid of Mostock, a city built off of 3073, Hwy 999 was meant to act as an inner city freeway, and Hwy 76N was going to serve the northern suburbs until the project was canceled. If I have to I will return to Commonia to restore the history of Mostock and Slavutych that has been deleted and/or referenced. This was also notated as the Hybrid Springs area in Watamak. I also noticed that much of the was going to be neighborhood of Kremastre’s road network was also deleted (At the time of cancellation, 3 roads.) If it concerns me most was that the gap that now has to fill 3073’s spot, but keep in mind for whoever is going through removing most of what defined Mostock, That 3073 was the start. It is obvious in Mostock alone that the grid was built around 3073. There was also going to be suburbs north of the lake which would have made the Mostock City area larger than what it actually became. Slavutych was to be meant as smaller suburb but eventually became a city with-in it’s own. For further reference, please message me if you’re the one “Cleaning Up” the area before you remove something that has history to it… no hate, but thank you in advance.

My WIP Town , [Weirbrush] (https://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/-22.9206/18.3237) , was inspired from Childress, TX , USA because of the rail going through the center town . I Haven’t done much landscape (WIP) . I Haven’t got a town density for the eastern central perugi . Do I Need to shrink the airport? Do I Need to curve the river? Is There too little meadow? - Answer how you wish and add anything else. I totally forgot about wiki too .

*DON’T COMMENT ABOUT THE ROAD NAMES - IT HELPS ME DO MORE MAPPING *

All my edits are visible pretty fast, thank you. But updates I did to ‘my’ (part of) the coastline do not show at all, even those I did over a week ago. As I know the process of updating the coastline is separate from the main update process: is something the matter there ?

edit: Topo map does update, Histor-style does update. Only the ‘standard’ view does not. Wot ?

kind regards,

Marcello.

(p.s. the region is AR120-17; about here: https://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/-42.1478/160.3043 I can see both in P2 and ID that the coastline is (much) more detailed than shown, and I can find no apparent errors)

Solved, thanks for the help

Hi everyone. Where I live, school started back at the beginning of February. It’s going to be a busy year, so after nearly a year on OGF, I turned in my territory.

I thank you all for your help, feedback and advice.

However, I still enjoy mapping, so do reach out (through DM) if you would like to collaborate on something. Bear in mind that I may not be available all the time.

Also, I have good skills with Photoshop so if you need images edited to suit your countries, let me know. I especially love creating road signs if you need those too.

Thanks once again for the friendliness and the great experience I’ve had here for the last year.

–BillionPenny

is there any way to handily determine the area of a country/territory in OGF? I’ve found size comparison and distance calculator pages/apps, but nothing to get an estimate of area? Any ideas?

I just added a ton of counties yesterday, but only the original 3’s names show up (Riverbend, Varode Lake, Tchullathinak Counties). I have compared the relations and everything seems the same… is something off with the renderer, or am I doing something wrong?