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I decided to withdraw my complaint anyway.
But I may likely need help with this one. Maybe if you mappers can help me out about Belphenia’s state religion since I know now, that the use of real world religions like Jehovah’s Witnesses or others here on OGF may be discouraged by others.
If you have any ideas like names and stuff, let me know.
Imports of OSM data are problematic for a number of reasons:
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.
We discussed this issue a while ago among admin team members, and finally decided that we rather don’t want to have imported data at all. It’s an official rule now:
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:About_OpenGeofiction
If you have imported significant amounts of OSM data, please be so kind to delete them yourself. Otherwise I’m afraid that the admin team will eventually have to do it.
Thilo
I was wondering, noticing the size of the world’s new continents-
Is the OGF world supposed to be bigger than Earth? Or the same size? It feels a tiny bit bigger to me, but now that I think about it these new continents are where the Americas are on real Earth so maybe it just seems bigger due to the number and shape?
In Norðurland, the railroads have a large standard gauge, larger than the gauges of the most neighboring countries. However, in the border regions, many tracks have the same gauge as the neighbouring country. So I would tend to tag those tracks as railway = narrow_gauge - as the OSM wiki suggests (the most common gauge in a country should be dawn as standard railway (railway = rail).
However, the neigbour country would most likely tag that track as standard gauge - which would result in “magic narrow-gauge to standard-gauge transitions” at the borders, due to the style in which both types of rail are drawn.
So, what should I do in your opinion? Should I accept that “graphical glitch” or should I tag my narrow gauge railroads as standard gauge, even if they aren’t?
Thanks again to everyone who suggested names, and everyone who took the time to vote. Congratulations to those who contributed the winning suggestions!
The new ocean names are the Ardentic Ocean, the Hesperic Ocean, and the Asperic Ocean. The new continents are Orano, Ereva, Kartumia and Pelanesia.
It has been mentioned that Hesperic/Asperic may be too similar. What are your thoughts? How would you feel about changing to Hesperic/Asperian or Hesperian/Asperic, in order to differentiate them a bit more? Or is there another easy solution? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Hello, brave mappers out there!
Well, now we have the new OGF rendering style which I think is pretty neat, after a few days of readjustment. However, there are some things which I really dislike personally.
The new stlye seems to set the focus of rendering to the things that exist NOW. For example, disused (not abandoned) railways aren’t drawn anymore, as well as projected highways.
Actually, I really dislike that. I can only speak for myself, but when I’m designing my country, a large part of my thoughts deal with the development of the infrastructure. Where did it came from and how is it intended to be. And I really want to share this information with you and all “visitors” of my country. Of course, the status quo is the most important. However, I really would appreciate if the past and further development would be a little bit more visible, at least so far as it was in the old rendering theme.
Another feature I really would like to see in OGF is the ability of distinguish between paved and unpaved roads. The OSM Humanitarian theme can render both states of a road (you can check this, for example, with the road network in Iceland). As both countries which I design, have road networks with a high percentage of unpaved roads, I would be happy if we could show this in OGF.
Well, these are my two main points of criticism. Maybe, you also have some wishes or thinkings about the rendering. And maybe, we could give OGF our very own “look and feel” with our very own rendering style. I think that this would be a nice part in the development of the OGF ecosystem.
What do you think? Do you also have ideas for a special rendering? And what does the admin team think about this? ;)
Greetings & happy mapping, Markus
So I started work on my second country, Terwen, today, and I wanted to know if the block size here is at an appropriate scale? I don’t want to mess up the scale like I did when making Farax.
Hi, I am trying to edit on Potlatch 2 and I can’t save because of the glitch in the screenshot below. http://prntscr.com/96n4c3 How do I fix this glitch without reloading the page and losing all of my progress?
I’m really bad at finishing things. I tend to map an area up to a certain level and then move on to some other project. Thus there is very little that I consider “complete” in my countries.
I surprised myself over the weekend by completing a major theme park in Palmeras Grises, DS, Ardisphere, to a very high level of detail. It’s sort of based on the US “Sea World” locations, but I made sure to make it different from those parks in layout and detail, too.
Anyway I’m quite pleased with it.
Happy mapping.
I’ve spent the evening adding some detail and realism to the centre of my capital city, Elmham.
I like to share my work every so often and get some constructive feedback. It’s been a lot of fun thinking on a micro level about the city instead of laying out the streets and transit lines.
So far it’s quite a small area I’ve worked on but it’ll be expanding as I go.
Let me know what you think. http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-36.61761/169.20527
Wesmandy is a small country in northwest Uletha, Ingerish-speaking but formerly Caeltig. It shares the “Dihobarth Peninsula” (formerly Bayland) with Ionadàlba (owned by Udilugbuldigu), and we have already worked on some early history together to explain the peninsula’s demographic make-up.
I’m going to try developing Wesmandy a bit differently from most other OGF countries, by mapping the country “as it happened”, starting in around 1450 and then jumping forward in stages to the present day, producing history and geography together as a coherent whole.
Since Wesmandy is not a huge country I’m hoping this approach won’t be too overwhelming, although, obviously, it will mean that for some time it will look like a “chronological anomaly” in 21st-century OGF. I’ll have to see how the mapping goes as far as the level of detail is concerned, and at times I’m going to have to resist the temptation to modernize places before I’m ready.
I will still put some general modern stuff in the Wiki, but obviously there will be nothing which links to specific map locations (e.g. embassies) until those locations exist; and I don’t want to commit to too much modern detail until the historical background is in place.
I’m wondering what to do with roads on my early maps. For example, do I map main medieval routes as primary roads, even though a medieval primary road will be nothing like a modern one, and may be little more than a dirt track? Or do I leave everything as unclassified until the modern age of road classification? The problem with that is that no roads at all will show on lower zooms.
My initial work on the capital, Eskwick, is here
Comments welcome!
Hello Everybody! Sorry I have been away from mapping for a while, but I am back again!
Farax has a talk page on the OGF wiki now- http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Talk:Farax
If anyone wants to chime in there welcome too!
I edited a section of my country yesterday and the map is refusing to load the content I edited at lower zoom levels, such as on the level of country. Is there a problem with the server at the moment?
This is the area I am talking about. It is refusing to load the new content between levels 7 and 8. Anything below 8 is old data.
Hi, a new capital in Riko is in the development. It is a coastal city, with a canal that reaches to the Central Ocean. I have problem with naming this city. I follow the trend and ask for suggestions for a new name of this capital.
The name has to be english/ingerish, as I have had a colonial past with Ingerland. An easy and fast name (6-8 letters) like “London”, would be perfect but it has to be original. Maybe something referring to the city’s location. However, a too generic name would make it less real. (ᵔᴥᵔ)
(don’t mind if the new coast isn’t updated ^_^)
The vote is ON for naming the oceans and new continents!
Visit our online voting booth to cast your ballot. To vote, you must enter a valid OGF user name, and you may only vote one time. When you hit the “Done” button, your vote will be locked in, so don’t click it until you are completely finished.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to submit name ideas. There were a huge number of great submissions and it was really hard to narrow down the choices for a somewhat manageable ballot. To make voting easier, you can vote for as many names as you like in each section. You don’t have to pick just one.
Voting will remain open until Thursday, November 26. If you have questions, feel free to ask below.
Again, the address to visit is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WJ8PV22
Happy voting!
The third largest city of my country was called “Pern” so far, which I never really liked, because it sounds like a stupid mixture between “Bern” (capital city of Switzerland) and the Russian city of “Perm”.
Now I have renamed it to “Preburg” (at least within the wiki), which sounds nice, I think - but it’s a quite boring name. So: do you have any suggestions for a nice German name for the city? I want “P” as the first letter. :) The rest is completely open. But it has to be a nice name, adapted to an important large city with almost 2 million inhabitants.
Thanks for your proposals!
I feel that I can still change the city name because I have only drawn some basic features yet.
Best regards joschi81
For some reason an entire section of beach in Vandover just stopped rendering. It’s still there properly in the editor, but it wont show on the map. Other beaches around it work just fine. Any idea why?
Hello all,
Sorry for the lack of progress on the Karolia move and cleaning up its former location. This is coming up to a rather busy time of year so I’m not sure I will have much time for editing for a few weeks, probably until the second/third week of December. I’ve not forgotten what I need to do though.
I did however have time to get some pictures of a little something I created - in real life - during the past holidays. It’s the national football team jersey of Karolia and pictures are here:
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Karolia_shirt_front.jpg http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Karolia_shirt_back.jpg http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Karolia_shirt_montage.jpg
Enjoy! I wish I could make these to order for anyone who wanted one, but I don’t think so. However if you look at my earlier creation, the blue Santjana Linna shirt, there are some instructions on how I did this, so if you want to have a go at your own design…
