I’m trying to use JOSM, and after searching around, I got it to load ogf, but now the add node, add way are greyed out. Any ideas?

Vinnmark’s capital city, Berles, is now open for collaboration. After I finished the basic schema of the city, you can now collaborate on the city.

Rules

*You can map inside the circle formed by the bigger highway.

*The northern part of the city should have nordic looking names.

*The southern part of the city should have french looking names.

*It’s inspired in European cities so the central part must be old-looking and the outskirts should be modern neighbourhoods.

*Don’t map too big.

*Take in mind it’s a 1.3 million-people city.

Thanks for reading ;)

Antarephia is once again flooded…..

As a few of you might have noticed, a new country, Drabantia (formerly UL108e), appeared on the map. Let me tell you something about my intentions with it.

Climate and geography

Drabantia is an underachiever in terms of geography. The highest mountain is going to be 1500 m tall at most, the lowest point the lake (I’ll consent on that with the neighbouring countries.) The climate is going to be Kopper Dfb, again not breaking any records.

Population

Drabantia is an underachiever in terms of population, too. The total inhabitant count is not going to reach 5,000,000 people. (Edit: It actually did, the final population I’m going for is 5,390,000.) The largest city will have 200,000 inhabitants at most (part because I don’t like large, crowded cities and part because I’m lazy.)

Wealth

While not the most wealthy country, Drabantia maintains a high standard of living.

Politics

Politics in Drabantia are boring. There is not much happening, the government is center-liberal and left-leaning since, like, 1850.

International relations

Drabantia is irrelevant and rarely gets to throw its 2¢ in on international level. However, that’s also the reason it has never been threatened or invaded: because no one really cares about it.

The country is open to all international relations, though. Just message me if you want to trade embassies!

Resources and industry

Thanks to the government infiltrated by the Green Party, the few natural resources Drabantia has are rather unexploited. It’s not like they’re anything very valuable anyway: the major ones include granite, clay and glass sand.

Drabantia is an industrial country. If you don’t mind the strict environmental rules, you can open a bussiness in there too: just message me (and wait till like, october, I’ll have designed some industrial and retail areas by then hopefully).

Greatest achievements and inventions

The following are things Drabantians are proud of:

• Contact lenses
• Press freedom
• Potato pies

… See full entry

Cleared entry.

I have been puzzled for a while by this: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-45.70595/70.17565

There is a white ‘island’ here, but in JOSM there are no nodes or coastline ways there. It is over a month since I changed it. Originally it was a district maritime boundary which I managed to accidentally tag as natural=coastline. But although I’ve removed the coastline tag - and shifted the way slightly - the white area remains. So it looks to me as if the render hasn’t updated on this bit of coastline. Can anyone tell me why, and if there is a way to fix it?

I wish I could go back just a couple of weeks to show everyone what St. Richards used to look like in Pretany. I am really trying to strengthen my detailed mapping skills over the past couple of days and St. Richards has been my guinea pig. Here is the new and improved Richards Point in Pretany. There was a former park that was relatively isolated, and now it is the hub of the new National Assembly. Many more details are emerging as I map, and I am finding it easier to add to the map once I already have something established.

(http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/54.0696/60.9799)

I have a proposal to make, that we have annual awards for outstanding mapping, wiki articles and conception in the OGF project. A chief purpose is to showcase to new users good practice, but also to bring to the wider community attention map edits that they might not come across when viewing the map.

My suggested categories would be:

Best large city (over 500,000 projected population) Best small city or town (under 500,000 projected population) Best natural feature (river, national park, mountain range etc) Best transport feature (detailed railway tracks, motorway junctions, realistic airport) The Commonia Award for Restraint in Motorway Building and Grid Cities (not replicating Shanghai on every available grid square)

Best collaborative project Best wiki article Best created image (banknotes, stamps, etc) Best image editing (real-world image edited to be in OGF) Best cultural invention (most compelling, believable and inventive national or regional cultural feature, including language) Best OGF News article Best new member (any user joined in the last 12 months who has made substantial progress in mapping and upheld the spirit of OGF)

Suggested process:

For reasons mentioned above, we will allow users to nominate their own work, as others may not be aware of its existence. You may nominate to the longlist as many things to as many categories as you wish. After a certain date users will vote to nominate eight-ten or each to the shortlist, these will then be voted on either by a panel or by the whole community.

There is a general rule that the object nominated must have been created or substantially edited in the last twelve months to be eligible, however as this will be the first awards this will be less strictly adhered to. I would allow for example Khaiwoon to be nominated for best city even though most of the work took place.

Feedback please!

I created two new Infoboxes for:
- Roads (means Highways, Trunks/Expressways, Primary Roads, (Secondary Roads))
- Landscapes

Infobox Road

The infobox road is usable for large connection roads, like highways, trunks/expressways and primary roads, maybe also secondary roads. For minor roads and streets in towns and other residential areas, please use the Infobox street, which offers more details for suburban areas.

In addition to infoboxes, I created some courses of highways, which aren’t finished yet. Highway 1 (Gobrassanya). The symbols on the left are the templates I created for interchanges, exits, … As they’re drawn in 5 minutes, they don’t seem like much, so maybe someone who is interested in symbols, can draw some nicer versions or add additional symbols? Resolution is 28x28px. A complete category about the symbols can be found here.

Infobox Landscape

I don’t have to say much about that, I guess. A simple infobox that shows general informations about a landscape.

Feel free to edit the infoboxes and add additional informations, if you’re aknowledged with the theme.

For first I overwatched the already existing “Infobox street”, so is there a category that shows all infoboxes? If not, there should be one, to beware of multiple infoboxes.

Order is important!

As I saw some road infoboxes are already taken for other countries, which is nice to notice. I tried to create a system for highway images, templates, … in Gobrassanya. Maybe, it would useful to make all road article namings (and numerations) in a special system.

I have the following idea of article naming:
“Highway 1 (Gobrassanya)”
“Expressway 323 (Gobrassanya)”
“Primary Road 13 (Gobrassanya)”
“Secondary Road 12 (Gobrassanya)”
…
(See the numbers of the roads just as random, the structure of the article name is important)

I think this is a good system of structuring the data in the wiki. Images of the reference numbers just get .png at the end so it is

… See full entry

Cleared entry.

I am planning on redoing both of these cities and using my current experience in Nigeria to make them feel more third world like. For example both of These cities are entirely too connected, while in Nigeria on map a city may look indistinguishably connected, but in real life their may only be one road connecting two areas of 100,000 people. Since this city has a plethora of grids they are a lot more connected than a true third world (unplanned) city would be. I plan on putting a lot more industrial areas in both those cities and deleting a downgrading a few highways and streets. I would like constructive criticism (not having to deal with railroads for either city as Avewood for commuter rail is a mess. While the Novograd government doesn’t allow commuter rail. I will most likely ask for help with railroads after reading a few wiki articles.) on these cities and what you think I should focus on. Seeing as computer access is bad you may not see me edit these cities at all for a few weeks, it just depends on a few factors.

Avewood- http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/14.0001/95.6661 Novo grad- http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/14.5946/96.2066

It appears that maybe an old version of the coastline has been updated. Several miles of land are now underwater. The whole City of Belleville is underwater.

So, after many weeks or even months of almost no activity in OGF (lack of time, unfortunately) I came back now and continued drawing using my “mapping here and there” strategy. This time I focused on Borwald mountain region within Borwald-Oberstresien federal region. Although I wanted to stick to “zoom level 9 features” (forests, main roads and motorways, railways, rivers and other water bodies, town names), I finally added the whole general city structure for the city of Melonn with general landuses, main roads, railway stations, and the two-line tramway network.

I have the goal of filling up the whole country of Kalm with “zoom level 9 features” until the end of the year. I’ll see if I can manage, there’s still a long way to go, especially with my tendency of jumping into larger zoom levels at some point.

Here’s what I mapped: Borwald and the city of Melonn

Well Commonia is flooded again. I hope it wasn’t me but I did have issues earlier today when I was editing.

I found an old map where the area now occupied by Vinnmark, Welsrik and others; is named as Bayland. I’ve also found some info about Bayland in this page List of countries by economic statistics

I want to know as much as possible about that former country.

Well since there was a request for help with an airport the other day I thought I would ask for assitance for one as well. The airport as it is mapped now somehow does have a taxiway error that I don’t remember rendering. At any rate I am speaking of the actual terminals, runways and correct taxiways.

Any comments would be helpful.

Hello all,

I’ve finally been working on adding to my wiki and one of the things i’ve been focusing on are businesses in my country. I have begun to set up a stock exchange in Jefferson’s capital. I was curious if there is some sort of international stock market or if businesses remain largely national.

If there is not, we should figure out a way to create an international listing of stock symbols, and their respective stock exchanges. This would also help create a searchable list of the OGF world’s most important corporations.

Is anyone else interested in this and has it already been done?

While judging by file sizes alone, the July 15 backup is big enough to be considered good, be careful, especially before deleting any untagged nodes/ways willy-nilly. I found at least four (recent) nodes that exported without tags in Rhododactylia alone; there are probably others elsewhere.

I just opened OGF and noticed my whole country Unesia is now shaded blue. I’m a relatively new user, but this matches the description of a continental flooding, which is bad news for anyone in Archanta. I guess this means no more editing for a while.

After a few recent confusions caused by people having multiple OpenGeofiction accounts, we’re adding one of our unwritten rules to the written rules: “No sockpuppets. Only one account per user.” So…

ANYONE USING MORE THAN ONE OGF ACCOUNT, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE TO ADMIN IMMEDIATELY.

And no, we don’t care about that account you made a few years ago, only used a couple times, and haven’t touched since. The people we need to hear from are those who are actively editing with more than one account, or those who use more than one account to control more than one territory. If this describes you, and you fail to promptly contact admin, please be warned that all of your accounts may soon be deleted from OGF.

Thanks for understanding. Happy mapping to all.