OpenGeofiction
Here are the names I’m considering so far:
Any other ideas? Are these all usable names? Do they all stink?
The map has a new rendering. In general, it appears as though every road has moved up a level in color. My city is composed of mostly tertiary roads, and it looks ugly with this rendering. Is there a setting to change how it looks?
Igwepir was one of my first cities. You all said that I started it well.
Now I’m working on the city, especially focused on trams. Originally, it had 1 way for 2 team tracks and 1 node for the whole intersection. A while ago, I started studying maps of German cities and their tram networks, and since Reeland should be a lot like Germany, I tried modifying and expanding not just trams, but the whole city, to look like a German city.
Major changes are:
every tram track is a separate way
many more avenues (dual carriageway streets/streets with a median) and less normal roads
So, what do you think?
I am going on the mapping process of two cites :
Belleville (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/-17.5823/20.7416) where i redesigned the southern and eastern district to make it more realistic. The city also has a metro network of 4 lines. When finished it should be a 1 million inhabitants city.
Troie (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/-17.8392/21.4234) now has an international airport and a new harbor. I try to keep the topography realistic which is the hardest ! The mapping of the two there cities in the Troie metropolitan area should start soon (Charleville and Sansévérina).
Each city has now its wiki page which i’ll try to complete.
Thomas
Please feel free to add your country’s embassy in Carispoole the capital of the small island nation of Samiloor.
Should draw 2 tram tracks next to each other be drawn as one? On OSM they’re usually drawn separately and in the OSM wiki it says “In some places each tram tracks is mapped separately and in some places two tracks are together mapped as a single railway=tram line.”
So, what is more convenient in your opinion?
In response to my last diary entry, I have successfully found a path for the Line 4 branch. To be called Line 12, it will run along line 4’s tracks from downtown Quentinsburgh out to the Eastbrown turn, then it continues straight into Northcross following the BRT route, and eventually merging with line 3 tracks in Northcross itself.
However, it may end up with a unique type of service. Line 12 is being considered as the first ever line that runs fully express from downtown to the branch off from line 4, then running local to the end.
Why? Well, Line 4 is one of the few lines with express service from downtown Quentinsburgh. However, on the section closest to downtown line 4 runs with line 2, both very busy lines running local. If line 12 was added running local, the local tracks would likely be overcrowded in downtown. By allowing line 12 to be express only within most of the urban area, line 4 gets more express service and line 12 doesn’t overcrowd.
This is the biggest change in the QUARTA system since the line 1-line 7 switch.
So far all of the redrawing of the subway lines and retail in Quentinsburgh is going smoothly, as are other projects around the metropolitan area.
As for the QUARTA metro (subway), so far I’ve been able to redraw the tracks for every single line except the eastern portion of Line 5, (as far as I realize) which may end up taking a slightly different route near the Geolympiad Complex anyway (possibly merging with the 4 for a Geolympiad complex station?). Platform work is still in progress. When all is said and done one will be able to tell what trains stop where including express just by looking at the map, and routes like 2 and 3 which originally ended short will have been fully extended.
(On a side note, I made several major freeways toll roads in Quentinsburgh, including most of U-7 within city limits, U-104 and U-204, and there are plans to make a branch of QLine route 4 to go into Northcross, which may become route 12 or route 4B, depending on exact route, and a modification of the BRT to go on Greendale Meadows Rd and Franklin Hill Rd. I will likely make a news article about these improvements soon.)
Retail is a larger project. I discovered that not only was my retail way too big with malls and such- since they were too big, there was still too little retail. I’ve fixed most of the larger malls (Huxtable Towne, Grand Sq, Freeman Sq, Freedemia Sq, Hinespoint, Matherspark Towne, Southtown, Stanley Shop Ctr, etc) except Northcross’ malls, Tortoise Hills Mall and Beaver Point Mall, but it’s going to take longer for me to be able to go in and fix the smaller strip malls, supermarkets, fast food restaurants, gas stations, etc, most of which are still too few and too big. Areas like Capital West/Christian in North Quentinsburgh, the areas around Huxtable Towne and Stanley Shop Ctr and now even Matherspark have seen immense improvement though.
Following discussion with a few of you, I’ve finally got around to creating a wiki of the historical wars, conflicts and revolts our countries have suffered from. It has to be said that we appear a lot more civilised that the real world is!
However, in the interests of bringing countries alive - and this is all it is - I would like to suggest to you all that the world is the war it is today partly because of the way conflicts have shaped us. Unless people here have been expanding into areas where no-one has ever been before - and there must be places like that - there will surely have been conflicts between one tribe and another tribe, and between one nation and another. Whether you speak the same language or entirely different ones, there will have been times in history when people disagreed, or maybe things were just better in one country than in another, and people wanted to take it away. And what about the civil wars that caused so many nations to turn out the way they have, with one sector of the population having more power than another. How did your country manage to sort that out, when the one next door has gone the other way?
Whatever your position, please realise that the conflicts wiki is not intended to be a place to promote one form of government or ideology over another, but to help bring countries alive and help them fit into a bigger OGF picture. Feel free to put any ideas there.
The best to you all Udi
I’m now developping the towns of Rotshoek and Hogerwater in my country Durië.
Rotshoek is a beach town at the start of a cliff coast. It will be developped chronologically. It is now in the 1960s.
Hogerwater is a former industrial town and now part of the city of Oten-Kravedal. The railway line has gone from ground level to a tunnel, a former industrial area is now a modern city center and the motorway is now going around the town.
On this 6th day of November, 2015 the Free Republic of Jefferson was founded! The government is libertarian, with a lot of freedom for the people. There will be much more to come!
The people of Jefferson would love to trade with other countries! Look forward to hearing from them soon!
Ikk’bin looking for new airline destinations. We are an airline based in Balam Utz (Uletha) who are interested in flights to West Uletha, Tarephia and Antarephia. We covered cargo and passenger lines. we wish to be your second option HUB country and connect the islands of the central ocean with peninsula
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Ikk%C2%B4bin
we have 3 airport situated in Balam-UTZ. Puerto Moreno (Pedro Moreno, KBPM), Ek-Balam (King Pakal I, KBEB) and Khan Kun (Sian Khan, KBKK)
Anakes :D
Is there an option to increase the tile-server-performance?
That would be great.
Sometimes browsing the map is virtually impossible. Is this a common problem?
Oxalia
I think that shipping canals are quite an interesting feature, especially when it comes to locks. So here’s one I’ve been drawing today: Schleuse Blochfeld. It is part of Fora-Kelm-Kanal, the most important artificial inland waterway in Kalm and it connects to Kelm river and Kohnsee in the east and to Fora river north of Forberg in the west. It crosses a mid-sized mountain range and thus it is not a flat canal like Mittellandkanal in Germany, but more like Main-Donau-Kanal with a lock approx every 20 km.
Do you like such a map feature? And have you ever drawn locks in OGF?
Best regards joschi81
Any country who would like to add a factory for their company can add take a spot in the Winston Park Industrial Estate. The country does not have to contact me, it can freely take 1 spot in the park. If the country wants a second spot please contact me so I can approve it. Thank you http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/28.7425/24.6026 Industrial Park here
Mercian Airways is looking for international destinations to call at. We are a mid-sized flag-carrying airline for the Kingdom of Mercia.
Please post below with airports at which Mercian Airways can begin to operate flights and if there are any airlines in your nation which would like to begin flights to Elmham International Airport.
Mercia is a small island nation so my model here is based on Malta, I am looking for medium-haul flights to regional and international hubs and for trade and business routes. Malta’s most far-flung destinations are Dubai, Moscow and Stockholm. I would like my flights to be restricted to the area shown in the route map. - Adam
I noticed a very large change in the last few minutes looking at the real OpenStreetMap. All of the interstates just turned red and started rendering differently. Is this a rendering change that will eventually affect OpenGeofiction? What exactly happened in the first place? Just wondering.
Hi, I’m just wondering how to create large, complex and realistic road junctions without it looking crowded and clumsy? For me it’s 2 motorways passing through, and another terminating. 1 being the main highway towards the city centre going north/south, the other being a bypass that brings traffic in and out of the city going east-west. The terminating one being from the suburbs and a small town (Melton) that has been swallowed up by the expanding city (Ellmouth). It was previously 3, individual junctions in a relatively small space.
Do you think I should leave it as it is (a poorly planned disaster junction) or if and how I should clean it up?
Click here to explore Ellmouth: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/51.8561/129.1973
This were the initial junctions: http://imgur.com/CDQy0rl
This is the current junction layout: http://imgur.com/KuZxIYw
This is the city of Ellmouth in general: http://imgur.com/TjJJBdv
Hi, The city of Troie, the oldest city of my country, is under mapping construction. It’s located on a cape with a natural harbour. It’s a city with hills and beatches.
http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-17.8555/21.4370&layers=H
Thomas
Work is progressing on mapping the state. The topography/geography is a blend of the Southeastern US and some aspects of the Pacific coast blended in. I have purposely drawn the area about forty years behind in infrastructure as to have a historical look in nature as the area is being drawn.
The emphasis at this time is on mapping many of the rural areas and the suburban areas. The cities thus far have a low density.
