What is this new Authorization token in JOSM? I can’t even get one to authorize my edits to post.

EDIT: Never mind I fingured it out. :) lol

Has anyone heard of f4map? Somehow it is able to turn your OSM edits in to 3D. These are my edits in OSM around the Lake Ronkonkoma, NY area. http://demo.f4map.com/#lat=40.8228222&lon=-73.1182558&zoom=16 I wonder if the same link can be made to OGF?

Hello All,

I am having a good deal of trouble learning about the OGF world, such that it has been drawn and wiki-ed to date. I am looking for a broad history and narrative, and even though the world is young and hugely incomplete I know there is plenty out there already. (Languages, migrations, religions, wars, colonial and imperial backstories, etc.) How best do I track those bigger, trans-national ideas down? The trouble is the fundamentally piecemeal nature of the map and especially wiki, and this is by design I know. I don’t expect to be bound to someone else’s history, but I would like to learn it and have the opportunity to play off it in an intelligent way. The “wiki everything around me in widening circles and ignore inconsistency while trying to make sense out of the small amount of overlap in entries” strategy is not working well.

So: What’s the closest thing we have to an accumulated history of the world? Or, asked in a more manageable way: How would a new user learn a little about the world before he or she is let loose upon it?

I know this is a big topic but the question is asked to try to make a richer and more interesting product. Thanks in advance, r.s.

I’ve been recently busy with university. But I took small amounts of time to work in Aŭstrasuno Tero. Recently I’ve been updating the map, with the basic road network and the development of the capital, Aŭstraĉerfubo -South Capital, in english-. By the general geography of the country, I’ve made some new maps over the blank one showed in the previous diary entry.

The first map is about biome and mountains. Mountains are marked as puncted line. At the north, in dark green, the temperate forest, an area of dense forests and wet weather caused because the warm oceanic current. At the center south, in light green, the taiga. In brown the tundra and in blue high mountain glaciers.

It lefts many work on the physical geography, such as rivers and a better height map, but it is on the way.

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Hello everyone,

I’ve got a difficult question. As you all know, there are churches and other religion buildings in our OGF world. But I was always thinking: what text is (for example) in the bible in this world? Cause, there is no Israel in our world. Does someone know the answer, or are there no rules made up about this here?

Greetings, Niels20020

As I did some mapping of planet Earth during the last week (read here what planet Earth is, if you don’t know :) ), I temporarily set JOSM to connect to the OSM server. Actually, I mapped all buildings with housenumbers and special addresses in Keitum, Sylt island, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Yesterday I continued in OGF but for some stupid reason forgot to switch back to the OGF server. As I had loaded a locally saved .osm file I didn’t recognize this until I uploaded the changesets and got completely strange JOSM error messages. The changesets have already been reverted in OSM (or are going to be soon) but for a short time, northern Kalmian stuff appeared within the forests between Moscow and Yaroslavl in Russia. Here you can see at least the railway station:

See my blog entry at OSM.

But finally, after a bit of late night work yesterday, here it is now, the small coastal town of Brenta, Assen canton, Nordland region, Republic Kalm.

Happy mapping! joschi81

Notice that when I click on a street to edit it, nothing happens. If I click it repeatably it just adds a extra node. I can barely edit any of my roads. This has been happening since 3 months ago!

I noticed that daily backups are not showing for the 23rd, 24th, and now the 25th. The last backup is from February 22nd. Has there been an unannounced but planned discontinuation of daily backups?

What exactly is this? http://opengeofiction.net/#map=10/-15.0814/176.9870

The relation doesn’t have an ID; it looks like a user just made some islands in the middle of the ocean and started mapping without consulting with anyone.

Worse, the world overview map at http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Territories shows it as a blue territory and thinks it is as part of Rhododactylia, which it clearly is not. It doesn’t show up in http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Territories_List either.

Hello, so my interest for OGF sparked again, but sadly is reached a blockade. I can’t seem to set up JOSM for OGF properly, the FAQ is not as much of a help either and now JOSM is complaining about proxies for some reason. So the problem is this: I have pointed JOSM to the OGF servers, but nothing seems to happen, JOSM doesnt pull data from OGF at all, and the map downloading thing as background also seemed to fail. Can someone explain me step by step how I would set up JOSM for OGF? I’d appreciate it.

One question I brought up at yesterday’s online meet-up (which ended up being text only) was women mappers. I’m curious as to how many of us are women. It feels like nearly all are male. From some comments I heard, it seems that most fictional mappers happen to be men. I have no idea if that is true. But I wonder why?

And I wonder, do women feel welcome here?

Personally, it seems strange that mappers tend to be men. As with most things, I think having good representation from both sexes tends to make things richer, more complex and, well, better.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Is it blue - or is it not blue? It has been removed from the list of ‘open to edit’ countries. If it is not blue, what is the status of the edits in that country and the wiki content written about it? Cheers Udi

Today is the first anniversary of me joining OGF. It’s been a fun experience, with some great people, and I thought I’d post an update on my activities:

Nearly all my attention at the moment is going on Wesmandy (map here: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=8/57.760/41.976, wiki here: http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Wesmandy). I’m trying a historical approach to mapping the country, creating it was it was in about 1400, after which I’ll update the map and the history in tandem until I get to the present day. It’s a big project if I’m going to keep the whole country in step through the centuries, and I can’t say how long it will take. I had hoped to have the medieval “baseline” complete by Easter, but I don’t think that will happen. After that, going through the centuries should be fairly straightforward until industrialization starts, when things will get complicated!

When I started this I dithered about various things such as how much detail to include, but I think I know where I’m going now, unless anybody comes up with any glaring problems or omissions! :-

Throughout Wesmandy, I have mapped the major rivers and lakes, although I am adding more streams as I get down to detail. I have located and named about 530 cities, towns, hamlets and (mostly) villages, but I’m adding more villages and hamlets as I get down to detail. I also mapped the roads between them, designating roads between cities as Trunk, between towns as Primary, between main villages (centres of manors) as Secondary, and everything else as Unclassified. The designations indicate relative importance of the routes, not the quality of the roads - most will be dirt lanes at this time.

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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.

http://imgur.com/pQbi4cD

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:

• it’s hard to determine proper sizes of map objects. „Templates“ would be great.
• it’s hard to draw rectangular buildings from scratch

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.

The wiki page of EUOIA

The wiki talk page of EUOIA