I cannot figure out the ramp design and left exit arrangement of this viaduct skyway. the ramps cross over themselves to the left-handed driver direction prior to coming to intersecting roads, and these ramps cross over each other which seems like an engineering nightmare. In order to allow for these ramps the viaducts would have to be extremely high to allow for two levels of crossing ramps and then a boulevard beneath that. I am also wondering what the purpose of the tandem boulevard along this corridor. Was this designed this way just because it looks cool or because it has some actual functionality. — http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/18.77812/88.97672

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When it comes to freeways/motorways. left exits should be avioded at all times. only in rare situations would a left exit be an option. Additionally the Spaghetti Maze ( http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/18.81450/88.97951 ) interchange at A-1 and A-9 has been modified to have a ramp for free flow on to every side street rather than terminating some ramps to a traffic signal as the interchange was originally designed. all of these ramps could in practice cause driver confusion and also creates an engineering nightmare for civil engineers. Again it seems like a bit of creative overkill if you ask me.

Thirdly there are a TON of very closely spaced freeways here as well. some spaced less than one mile from each other. Again just wondering about the need for that many closely spaced freeways.

Hello everyone,

I’ve created a page for the Calle Prinicpal in Balonis City on th wiki. However, I would like to add an infobox on the page. Is there an infobox for roads on OGF wiki? If not, maybe someone could make it (I’m not very good in making infoboxes)

Greetings Niels20020

A draft of contours for my city-state of Tárrases (off the coast of Mahhal) has gone “live.” There are some small artefacts of the conversion process, but overall the result is quite pleasing. More contours for Mahhal coming soon!

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/-64.0216/98.3949&layers=T

Happy mapping.

A layer from JOSM is currently uploading which outlines the river systems and jungles of central Commonia. Its a big file and will take a while, and I don’t know how it will turn out yet; I’m expecting a few glitches, which I will sort out as soon as I can. The rivers are partly based on rivers that were already there, partly new, but I haven’t removed any rivers, only re-used previously drawn sections in slightly different ways, to make them a bit more logical - to me anyway. I have tried to base them on river patterns in the Amazon and Congo, while using what was already there. The jungle fits in between many of the river multi-polygons. Although there will be a lot of landuse=wood there will still be plenty of places for people to build in central Commonia.

As part of Luciano’s challenge (which I’ve already failed) I’ll also alter some of the 100s of km of straight-line roads in Commonia, as I check through the upload data, either replacing them with other forms of transport or making them more realistic by adding curves, etc.

La creación de un sistema de ferrocarril en Pohenicia es una idea a la cual llevo dandole vueltas un tiempo, y me gustaría ponerla en marcha en los próximos días.

Actualmente hay dos líneas de ferrocarril en uso, y sólo en las provincias centrales (a la izquierda de las islas)

1. Garnatarah-Salvador del Estrecho-Florentine-Vanissa-Monsaró*

2. Darbo-Puerto Celeste-Las Huertas-Cornalheira-Recobecos-Ruescas-Desfiladero-Las Colinas-Montecalas* *Ciudades sin desarrollar o sin estación de tren, aún.

Por ese motivo he decidido crear una red completa que comprenda toda Pohenicia (a excepción de la Provincia del Cabo, por lejanía) a base de una línea de trenes de alta velocidad, entre 200 y 250 Km/h.

Antes de empezar la edición he creado en SketchBook de Autodesk un mapa un poco cutre (aunque he quedado muy satisfecho con el resultado, ya que no se me dan muy bien los trabajos artísticos a digital xd) que representa las ciudades por donde pasa el LAV (línea de alta velocidad)

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Hello everyone,

just a quick question; I’ve downloaded the latest ogf-backup an hour ago (18th April), and, as I usually do, cropped and transformed it into an osm file with the size of my country using osm convert. Only that while editing on JOSM, I’ve noticed that there were some unconnected and untagged points here and there. Comparing with the browser map, I’ve found that all of them either were tagged with railway=station or place=town or place=suburb;they were all still as they used to be when I looked through the browser editor, so the problem occurred either with the data set itself or during converting. If I had uploaded my “changes” from JOSM to OGF, I’d have done quite some damage to Kojo and adjacent territories.

Usually I’d just think that the data set is impaired, but at least its size looks very reasonable, 191mb, and I wonder why it’s only such a very limited number of objects that’s affected? It would be great if another mapper could check if they have similar issues with the newest backup file, and I just have to wait for the next file, or if it relates to osm convert :)

Cheers,

Leonard

Does anybody know why this site is still on iD 1.3.6?

Thanks, Katav

Hello everyone hope you had a nice day. So lately I’ve been making some progress on Pasalia but always thought there must be something I’m missing. Turns out I think I’m lacking a general concept for it so far. Now, after some hours of thinking about that, I further realised to have created a small problem (that turned out to help my idea) . Sooo… I first started mapping in german but then changed to english, so i then came up with the idea of making my country bi-lingual (think real life the french speaking part of canada) but here it would be my capital region speaking german and the rest Ingerish. Any of you got any tips or opinions on that? Second and maybe the most interesting thought I had so far. One thing I can tell is that I’m really having some ‘nostalgia’ for 1950s north america (aka the US). Now I was thinking how it would be possible to design a modern day 2016 country that is culturally still somewhat stuck in the 1950s (E.g: obviously having modern day tech but driving 50s-design influenced cars and being a bit living their culture, without all the racism, discrimination and generell weirdness and having modern day buildings but with a bit of ‘‘googie-architecture’, google it if you want to know) So after this oddly long post What are your thoughts on this, admittedly strange, idea? Any thoughts or ideas or critiscm? greetings, kingfries (who still wonders how he came up with this )

A year ago, the OGF community helped produce translations of our About page into German, Spanish, French, Dutch and Polish.

Since that time, we’ve made some big changes to the English version, in an effort to make the rules of OGF clearer and the steps for new users easier to follow.

So if anyone could help update the translations of the About page to match the current English version (or produce a good translation for another widely spoken language) we’d appreciate your efforts enormously. With all the formatting involved, it’s probably easiest to simply copy/paste the entire wiki code from the English page, and start from there.

If you’re interested, feel free to comment below or jump right in. Many thanks for your help!

When I started remodeling my capital city, I isolated some components (the embassies, for example) and saved them as separate osm files so I could put them back once I found a spot for them in the ‘new’ city.

However, since the replacements are the same version number as the originals that were deleted, JOSM pitches a fit about data-set synchronization when I upload; the message “your version is version 1, server has version 2”. Conflict resolution is slow because I can’t get JOSM to download all the desynced data at once (I get a read timed out error if I try to synchronize the entire data-set, which I sometimes get on normal data downloads from the server), so I have to sync each each conflict individually.

Is there a faster way around this issue? I have more things I plan on restoring in this manner and would like the process to go a bit quicker. :)

-Reece

A while ago I described my (new) here-and-there mapping strategy. I still like it, jumping from small-scale general landscape design to large-scale details. Here’s one more example for the “details” part of it: Grümer Peninsula including many details for the small town of Elzburg, which is located at one of the northern termini of Rekant S-Bahn (suburban rail) network.

Happy mapping! joschi81

Hello everyone,

I’ve made one state in Balonis for now, but the name doesn’t display on the map, however I’ve drawn the borders. You can see the state here. Does someone know how to let the name display on map? It should be named Garza.

I hope someone can help me.

Greetings, Niels20020

Hi, welcome on my diary!

• Canton of Amonters: 90% completed - WiP:
  • Amonters amusement park (golf courses, stadium)
  • Rename existing towns
• Canton of La Ferté: 40% completed - WiP:
  • Amonters-La Ferté International Airport
  • La Ferté racetrack
  • New towns
  • Rename existing towns
• Canton of Dalètre - WiP:
  • Coastline
• Canton of Sil-Monts: 5% completed - WiP:
  • Remake boundaries
• Canton of Sil-Maritime: 5% completed - WiP:
  • Sil international port
• Canton of Valder: 5% completed
• Canton of Ricie: 5% completed

for my country Eureisia. I been rattling my brain for the longest in creating one that I’ve seen many users made. Can one create it using MS Paint to make the elevations, colors and whatnot. I have been making a big terrain like land via Sketchup, saved it as a 2d image and wanting to trace it via pencil and paper and transfer it to a paint program.

Maybe I’m asking my own question.

Any ideas?

Here’s attached.

Eur-Image-Terrain

Thanks, JBStad1

P.S. Since I don’t know what I’m doing in uploading images, I decided to show it via Flickr!

Hey fellow mappers; in the last days I’ve started on yet another city in Kojo; the city of Yoyomi and its immediate surroundings.

The city’s development is slightly inspired by the historic development of my home town, Cologne. There are a few parallels visible I think, but it is on no way supposed to be a clone of any kind. I’ve placed some mock-place-names in German, which I associate with certain types of neighbourhoods from here, but they will definitely change since they are only small notes for me; so don’t worry about them for now please ;)

With this mapping approach I, as I do with Ro, thought about the vague history of the city and the order in which its neighbourhoods grew. But more importantly I started mapping upwards down, that means I only mapped general landuse for now and the absolute core infrastructure; neighbourhood development will only take place when I finished the overall layout. That might seem obvious, but is actually quite a step forward for me since I sometimes even used to start working on little neighbourhoods before having thought about how big the city is even supposed to be xD

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I just tried to upload some mappings, but iD says “Version mismatch: Provided 31, server had: 32 of Way 1953594”. What does it mean?

In recent days I’ve been working on expanding the port of Port Elizabeth. If someone wants to create a route linking Port Elizabeth with some port of your country you are free to do so as indicated on the image, depending on the use of the route. Routes can from both the old port and the most recent enlargement

Port uses

Durante los últimos días he estado trabajando en la ampliación del puerto de Puerto Elisabeth. Si alguien quiere crear una ruta que conecte Puerto Elisabeth con algun puerto de su país es libre de hacerlo según se indica en la imagen, dependiendo del uso de la ruta. Las rutas pueden partir tanto del puerto antiguo como de la ampliación mas reciente

Usos del puerto

Oscar2002

Hi everyone, I was thinking about some important historical dates for my country Pasalia and one of them is the launch of the first satellite. Now I was asking myself how this whole matter of Rocket Launches is supposed to be handled. Would be great to hear from others if they intend on having something like that or if there are any international agreements on this matter?

Greetings -kingfries

Several users have asked about contours, and there have been discussions before.

I have made a “contours discussion” page in my sandbox, which users may consult.

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Luciano/Sandbox/Contours

I recently wondered if there’s a possibility of getting all nodes and ways of an area or tile via entering a specific url like “www.opengeofiction.net/api/0.6/gettiles/{zoom}/{x}/{y}” The resulting data output format should be xml, e.g. Way 24084 (www.opengeofiction.net/api/0.6/way/24084)

I have no knowledge of servers and all the stuff around it, so maybe someone can help me?

I am grateful for every answer. Bstn