OpenGeofiction
Hello everyone,
I would like to tell you that there’s now a member list on the wiki-page of the UFA . So, if you have a country in Uletha and football is developed in that country, please add it to the list! You can also add your country on the pages of the Uletha Champions League and Uletha Championship, if you think your country is good enough in football for that. I hope to see a lot of new members :)
Greetings Niels20020
Hi fellow OGFers,
Having received a great deal of response from my original suggestion, I am now proposing a time for a VOIP chat; this Sunday, 21st February, at 1700GMT (1800CET). This is intended for European residents. Of course, the time is flexible depending on availability.
For various reasons, I would like to use Google Hangouts instead of Skype for this. I think most of us have a Google email so you will already have an account set up. All that is needed is to install a <1mb plugin which you wil be prompted to do so. (If it turns out that we aren’t all on Google we’ll use Skype instead.)
Language will be English. Note that we won’t be making any huge decisions on the running of OGF, just to share ideas and chat about our worldbuilding activities.
Note that in common with most of the free VOIP services, a maximum of ten participants can take part, so we won’t be able to include everyone at once…sorry. Although there’s no reason why it can’t be a rolling conversation, and new users join as other leave.
Everyone will need to add contacts to join. If you are interested in participating, please add yourself below and then send me a private message with your Google contact (just so it’s not loose on the internet).
Hello, If you want to open a consulate and/or a cultural centre / library in Troie (http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Troie), just let me know where, i’ll be happy to map it. Parigot
I decided to take a detour, away from conventional mapping, to do some historical mapping of Decton, which can be found here (it’s too big for either here or the wiki.
I plan to extend this series to 1900, and after that, possibly convert it into a gif. This is a followup from the less sucessful Katsnelson gif, which can be found here:
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:321509.gif
The way I made this was simple: I copied Decton on JOSM and started adding and removing sections of it to create the final picture. It would be lovely to hear some feedback!
Thanks
Yuanls
Hello everybody,
I want to change the name of my country AR014 into Balonis, but I don’t know how I can do this. Can someone help me?
Greetings Niels20020
Is there something like geofiction plugin for JOSM?
I have these problems:
On the wiki a (so far small) discussion is going on about the creation of an international organisation called the Eastern Ulethan Organisation of Independent Allies (EUOIA; pronounce /youwoya/ or /eewoya/, although the name is still open for debate). So far the owners of Glaster (Yuanls), Mergany (Mstr), Wyster (me), and Østermark (Demuth) are involved, but since Eastern Ulethan is a vast area, more countries are welcome to participate.
Currently we are still discussing EUOIA’s goals and purposes, with the possibility of making EUOIA an umbrella organisation that facilitates several separate treaties; if this system is adopted, it will be the choice of each member state which treaty it will sign and - therefore - which parts of EUOIA it will join.
Hi all,
I had an idea the other day to suggest some kind of video conference via Skype or similar amongst the members of the community. This was mainly after the debate about the football World Cup which has led to a very long talk page, but also just to discuss the community work as a whole, and to see who the real people are behind the countries.
Now the obvious issue with this is that we all live on different sides of the world, so getting everyone together would require some careful timing. My feeling is that the majority of users live in United States (which itself has four time zones…), the next most common is the UK and Western Europe (two adjacent time zones) and then there are people like Luciano who live in Korea. Not aware of any others in the Far East though. Anybody from Australia/NZ?
What do we think?
Sarepava
100 to 146 different sort of birds live in the towns in Europa, Amerika, Asia and Australia. But so many only, if there are grass, shrubs and trees among the stones. To have this diversity, it is necessary, that parks have 10 ha (1/10 km²) or more and that for genetic health there are helpful junctions between the parks as trees along the street or trees on a strip in the middle of the street or avenue. (means Bernhard Kegel in his book “Tiere in der Stadt”/animals in the town)
I won’t take up a lot of room here, but I have posted a technical discussion of JOSM, osmconvert, and “polygon format files” at the wiki:
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Luciano/Sandbox/Help:Polygon_files
Happy mapping.
Since I had the day off for the Lunar New Year holiday (Year of the Monkey), I decided to complete the creation of Commonia’s 1st level political divisions. Commonia now has 75 “constituent regions” - I conceptualize the country as having a kind of “assymetric federalism” in the style of the Russian Federation.
Since the main map doesn’t update often at low zooms, I made one of my “polygon overlay maps” so people can take a look:
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Luciano/Sandbox/Polygons/CO-adminlevel4
Since Commonia is a “blue” territory open to all, none of these choices are written in stone. If you don’t like something, you are free to change it. However, please don’t change things “just because” - try to have a well-thought-out reason, or some interest in the territory in question.
Hopefully these relations can be maintained despite newbies working the territory - everyone is invited to help out if you notice something amiss.
I made up almost none of the names. I would surf across the map and choose names from towns or other mapped objects placed by various users, and apply them to the regions. The borders in many areas are completely made up, however - and in several areas I added some major rivers to give some shape and reason territories.
Only in a few areas did I find substantial “legacy” boundaries to work with, but in those cases, I tried very hard to respect them.
Only in some blank areas did I make up names. I tried to give the country a wide cultural diversity. To commemorate the start of the “Year of the Monkey” I named a fairly empty southwestern state “Annosimia” - Latin for “Year of the Monkey.”
Happy mapping!
Hello friends. The Intercup has now been established. This is a football competition equivalent to the OGFIFA World Cup but for integrated mixed-sex teams. It has been held every 4 years since the first competition in Freedemia in 1992. There are eligibility requirements for countries to enter and there are also requirements for winners, runner-up teams and hosts.
The main page of the competition is here: http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Intercup
So far, only the 1992 competitions and 2000 have wiki pages. See http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php?title=1992_All_Peoples_Cup and http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/2000_InterCup . Countries that meet the eligibility requirements (see the talk page for the respective competition) can fill in the spots in the table for these competitions. The requirements to take these spots are deliberately quite hard achieve - countries that take them must have put some effort into both mapping and wiki, especially on football!
Perhaps demand for places in the competitions will be low, but the wikis may also serve as a template as to how spots in the ‘official’ OGFIFA world cups - and other competitions - could be determined in a way that reflects the importance of football in a country, rather than on the ‘first-come, first-served’ basis that has happened until now.
Happy mapping to you all Udi
I was browsing OGF:Coastline_Maintenance earlier this morning and in the process found that relation 10071, for the Uletha coastline, had been deleted some two months prior. Has it been superseded by a newer relation (which I can’t find, if there is one)? If not, how to go about restoring it?
I am running out of ideas for [Decton] (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/52.0798/129.2003) very quickly. Help or inspiration would be appreciated, any idea will be taken into consideration. Previous diary entry for Decton’s history can be seen here.
I am very close to finishing Decton (finally!). The only bit that is really left is the [town centre detailing] (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/52.08127/129.19720), as a follow up to the (poorly done and unfinished) detailing in [Ellmouth] (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/51.8403/129.1798) and partially inspired by [Myrcia] (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/56.3332/19.2404)
Thanks
Yuanls
Hi, friends!
*There is a thing I can not include in a specific article I am writing currently, but I know it is possible.
I want include more lines inside a column, the righest one, as I do using Paint in the image below:
*Other thing I need understand is, how can I define the lenght of a column.
In wiki article to Cariocas league, I would like the images I uploaded are 100%.
Can someone help me in these questions??
What do i do when a road reaches another country? Do i just leave it or do i build a Border Custom and make it go like 1/10th of a Kiloliter over the border and just stop? Do I ask the other Countrys Owner what to do, and if so what if its unclaimed?
Hello everyone,
We need some countries who would like to participate in the 1942 OGFIFA World Cup. Click [http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Talk:OGFIFA_World_Cup#Countries_needed_for_1942_edition here] for more information.
Greetings Niels20020
Can geofiction cure cancer? Probably not. But it makes surviving it more enjoyable, maybe.
Two years ago, on this day (Jan 31), I joined Opengeofiction. I had just finished a major cancer treatment a few months before. In surviving my cancer, I am thankful to five main groups of people:
I’m posting this here because of number 5.
In June, 2013, I had been diagnosed with stage three cancer. I had undergone major surgery, a month-long hospitalization, and two months of radiation treatments. I was weak, I had lost 40 kg, and my chances of survival were still only 50%. I had returned to work only part-time, and was unable to be as mobile or as active as I had been before - I didn’t have the same stamina to go hiking every weekend. I had a lot of chronic pain and a lot of time to kill. I needed a new hobby.
OGF rescued me. In my teenage years I spent my time drawing many, many maps, all on paper, of imaginary cities, countries and planets. All sorts of worlds, from fantasy to sci fi to “parallel Earth” styles. I decided to try to “recover” one of these old maps in this new, digital environment.
I just created a flag for the capital of Gobrassanya - Gobras City. I already added it to the Wiki-Page (Image in full resolution). The background color is the same as of the national flag and I also added the Gobrassanya star but I thought an eagle would be nice to show the “power of the government”. I also added the text line “Thi húeron ontha riwe plevín” which means “The heart at the right site” as the motto of the country to the Gobrassanya wiki page.
(I also edited quite a bit of eastern Gobras City area with the help of other builders. –> Luhuo and Chanayétte districts.)
I am interested in what you think about the flag and if you have ideas for improvements. Also I am not very sure wheter I should remove the text line on the Gobras City flag or not. What do you think?
Regards,
Bstn
Hello Community!
I’ve been working on my capital Pyingshum for nearly as long as a year. I think it’s time to go over the project in a bit more detail, and get some overall feedback and comments.
The history on the wiki article is quite wordy and yet not very detailed regarding the development of the cityscape. So, here is a sketch of ~when each area was (for the most part) developed.
Of course the city already had some low density suburbs outside the motorway circle before the 1950’s, but the parts inside of it were mostly developed by then (apart from the blue social housing zones). Also I think I drew the “1950’s” line to close to the centre, just think about it as if the inner city had been more or less developed until the 50’s, then the circular motorway was built and the outer suburbs were forming ;)
Of course a city so big often leads to growth in close towns nearby, and most of them now are just another suburb in the big city. Inside of the inner city there are 5 former separate town centres, that now became just another local shopping/entertainment centre. These places were growing maybe as early as the medieval ages, and fused with Pyingshum before the dawn of the 20th century.
Further out there are another 5 local centres; I imagine that they might have existed parallel to the large city and might even have developed independently throughout the times of industrialisation. With the rise of the automobile they then were knit even tighter together with their big neighbour, until at some point the suburbs just merged. Now they are mostly densely built up side-cores, that also serve as little transportation and local supply hubs.
