Hey there,

I have a quick question; is there a way that I can get my cities’ names to showon the map rather than the names of the regions (-iki)? It really bothers me that a large portion of my cities aren’t visible from high zoom levels because the names of the regions are rendered above them.

Cheers, leo

I can’t find an up to date backup on http://opengeofiction.net/backup/.

The freshest backup seems to be from April 23.

Is there a new place for backups?

Is everything alright? Full resolution

Sorry that this new challenge is a little bit late. I have been very busy offline, and have set a new record, this past week: I haven’t opened JOSM for 6 days straight. That seems like a record for me, since discovering OGF.

Luciano’s Mapper’s Challenge #2 - May, 2016

Some mappers are very good at focusing on a specific area and mapping it to an extremely complete level of detail. This challenge will probably be useless for those kinds of mappers. But for me, and I know for many others, it can be hard to find “focus” and hard to really, truly complete a given area. It’s too easy to flit around the map, working on various things, and never really reach a sense of completion with a given area.

Arguably, the ONLY time I’ve really, truly completed an area is with my little Ardispherian exclave of Sarangdo. And that was more than a year ago, now, and further, it still could use more work.

So the challenge for the month of May is to try to concentrate on mapping on a single area. I would say maybe a maximum of 100km²(which is the size of a compact city)

The challenge has two levels.

• Advanced Challenge: for the month of May, ONLY map in your chosen, focused area. There is always more to map. If streets feel complete, work on buildings. If land covers feel complete, work on naming things. If building outlines are complete, work on putting detailed information about shops, banks, schools, etc. You can go into micromapping, adding housenumbers or sidewalks or traffic lights and turn lanes.
• Easy Challenge: for the month of May, chose some smallish area that you consider well-mapped and more-or-less complete in a way that you like, and try to reach that same level of completeness for your working area.

… See full entry

The IFWC has ended. Congratulations to Mariana and Castellán for getting 1st and 2nd respectively.

Most of these were ranked randomly, starting with randomized teaming, then randomly playing against each other. However, teams that had demonstrated a large amount of interest were a bit more likely to progress. I deliberately had Freedemia lose round two so others could progress.

Basically the championship would have been very close, and instead of the normal games where someone won by reaching 10, since you have to win by 2 the score would have been 17 to 15 because it was such a close game.

Hi there, I’m still alive. I’ve been ill recently, so I’ve been not editing so much recently. I hope to continue mapping soon.

Hello my fellow OGF-ers, I’ve got several things to say today, so I’m just gonna work them off in a list.

1.) As some of you may have read already I’m planning to have my country be somewhat 1950s/ early 1960s retro like. Following this I received some feedback from you that it should be guided by a proper backstory . Following a lot of evenings of thinking (and diet coke) I came to conclusion to have it be like this: Up to the late 40s everything goes its normal path down. After a possible war/threat scenario, Pasalia even considers using the nuclear weapons it build. This would then lead to a ‘cold war’ situation and, even more important, a large uproar around the world. This again would lead to some countries setting up anti-pasalia rallies which would somewhat isolate it culturally from the outside. Now the 50s thing comes into play which would cause the country to stay in that certain way for longer than usual, with only slowly making progress. After the whole thing cooling down in the late 60s/70s maybe (?), it starts becoming more modernized, but meanwhile the population has found the way everything so nice they choose to keep many aspects of it. Now that is where someonee of you could get the big role: First of all like always your feedback, opinions and nagging is always appreciated :p Second: Anyone of you wanting to be a part of this as the big bad nation?

Aside from that: I’m currently also busy with creating ‘Futuria City’ which is a planned city build in the 50s,60s and possibly into the 70s even. Imagine it a bit as a mix between real Brasilia and La Defense in Paris. Any companies wanting to have a office in a cosy skycraper with added parking garage? Currently looking to fill up the downtown area.

Sooo…what do you guys think,hm?

Greetings -kingfries

Well, I’m a little bit late closing this out. I ended up extremely busy this past weekend, and spent a new record minimum amount of time on my OGF hobby - less than an hour.

Let’s hear the results!

I know BMSOUZA kept a record of his challenge progress here - a very inspiring idea:

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:BMSOUZA/Sandbox/Mapper_Challenge

Seeing his idea, I “blikied” my work on the challenge here:

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Luciano/Bliki

I achieved the advanced challenge, I think, with only two “highway” tags the whole month, and both were “highway=pedestrian” so I don’t feel too guilty.

Everyone else, post your results, thoughts, achievements, etc., in comments.

Coming soon: May challenge!

Anyone else finding ogf wiki offline? It said something about the server being offline.

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Asparagus/Sandbox/CountryProfiles/Climate

For each country so we can make a cohesive climate map of this planet. Thanks. :)

I Am working on a map of a Fictional Urban sprawl, the map is realistic like OGF. On Average how many City Blocks = 1 Mile?

I am taking the old ramps that Ūdilugbulgidħū removed highways from and added placeholder towns to them.

Also, my keyboard is not happy today 😞

Well, i did something wrong and name of Quartia (aka Kwartia) region of Antharia isn’t showing on the map. I put a name tag in it, as in all other tags. What’s wrong with it? Any ideas? btw. doing these divisions was scary, i throught that i’ll break all country borders in the area. But it turned out well :D .

I’ve now finished the small town of Harcourt. It is a rather small town of 8000-9000 people. The town is, in fact, the largest town in Glaster without a rail link, with the southern section closing in the late 60s and the northern part in the early 80s after a period of decline.

I’ve been practising drawing the transition from urban-rural. I hope I’ve got it right. Please feel free to evaluate my work!

Thanks

Yuanls

PS: sorry for the lateness, I wrote half of it at night on my phone before falling asleep, so I didn’t finish it.

Did you ever consider using Decimal Time for your imaginary country? I’m seriously considering to use it. Because our 7 days/24 hours/60 minutes/60 seconds system is simply … stupid. Ok, partly my personal point of view.

It came to my mind when I was browsing some of my very old projects. See my Decimal Time display here

Happy mapping! joschi81

Does anyone use Simcity 4 for makeing Realistic Citys? I have been playing Simcity 4 for 7 years and its realy fun with NAM

Hello everyone,

I’m drawing a zoo in my city Morros in Balonis now. I found one problem: which animals do we have in OGF and where? Can someone help me with this?

Greetings Niels

## Invitation for the establishment of diplomatic relations

Foreign Office of the Federal Kingdom of Montran invites sovereign states to establish diplomatic relations with the Federal Kingdom of Montran and to open embassies in the Kingdom. Foreign Office will guarantee a land for construction of the embassy or will assign an existing building.

Please contact [Foreign Office] (http://new.opengeofiction.net/user/William).

On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Montran, Sir Andrew Erdar, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Hello everyone,

I’ve created a flickr account where I will post updates about my projects on OGF. If you want to see this, you can follow me. If you have any suggestions for me, you can also post them there.

Greetings Niels

Hello :) The new Air Réamel airline company is looking for new destinations for international connections through the continents. It provides passengers and cargo flights. It counts two hubs in Réamel: the Melle-Mendaya International Airport and the Fini-Peio V International Airport .

Réamel : http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/R%C3%A9amel Air Réamel : http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Air_R%C3%A9amel

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