Hi there! New member here, I just claimed by first territory a few days ago and intend to build it into a big single-party communist state called the People’s Republic of Turonia, because we don’t seem to have very many around at the moment.

So logically I’m doing the natural features first, mainly the coastline. I absolutely butchered the scaling the first time (I had a building over 5km long…) but I redid my coast and I was wondering if anyone knowledgeable or experienced could give me some feedback on it. The country is labelled as Turonia and it’s on the eastern coast of Tarephila.

My inspiration is Eastern Canada, with my own sort of spin on it. I have several large “Great Lakes” some distance from the coast as well as a large river inspired by the St. Lawrence. The capital city is going to be situated in the bay near the centre and spread across the islands situated within it. That idea was inspired by Montreal, but on a much larger scale and in a bay.

ANYWAYS that’s about it. Is there any advice you can offer me in improving my coastline? I want to have details like rivers and lakes ideally, since it makes for interesting city locations and designs.

Yay! My South Bay City is finally starting to take shape in a form I’m (so far) happy with.

A problem I have is that seeing as I live in the second flattest state in the US, I tend to think more in terms of a central grid system, and not with spurs and winding strrets. As my city’s metro area expands to the north, however, it will but up against some foothills, and non-straight roads will be a thing here.

… Or a visual illustration of the complexity of highway junctions in the real-world due to geographical, cultural and financial constraints.

http://www.c82.net/work/?id=350 - Interchange Choreography

(art too, based off OSM dataset)

I’ve not editing so much since… uhmm… I really don’t know. I updated JOSM, and proably that fixed some problems with OGF editing. Sincerelly I don’t like Potlatch2 (where is the scale rule in that app?). And also I edited the OGF Wiki.

I’ve been updating the coastline of Aŭstrasuno Tero, principally in Malvarma Rokoj, were I created a strange and weird geography. I like it too much: islands, islands, islets… and more islands with a sharp and broken coastlines.

By the way, is OGF in social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Reditt or Tumblr?

Not long ago, I read an entry about websites in OGF. That gave me an idea.: Why not making them real?

KOOPER.TK

I remembered I have an un-used website, it’s called Kooper.tk , and I tried to make a social network there. We can use it to make real websites with OGF-related content. We can make functional websites or just plain landing pages looking like real websites.

Why?

Just for fun. I don’t think why someone would like to read a website about how great life in Kalm is or one about how to move to Ostermark, but it can be pretty exciting to build a life-like website about your country, with even your own country domain.

Your own country domain

An OGF website address would look like “http://kooper.tk/livinginvinnmark” , but you can link to it as livinginvinnmark.vk.

Is it a good idea? Would you collaborate?

Comment below, please.

Inspired by the Geovision Song Festival 2016 and my Wiwaxian contestant Sibyl, I’ve written wikipedia articles on two vaguely related things:

• A global TV show called Popstar Factory with contestants competing to become popstars and various country editions. Feel free to add your own country’s version of the show or let me know here and I’ll add it myself! Also, I didn’t write which country originated the show. Wiwaxia I feel is too small and insignificant a country to have started it - any other bigger and more culturally dominant countries with major TV production companies (that have wiki articles about them!) interested in being the originator in 2002?

• An aid event called Concert for Commonia with aid going to displaced Commonians. Feel free to add singers and pop stars from your country to the list (and expand on the article if you want) or let me know here and I’ll add it myself.

Ventria (Wiki and map) is a small land-locked state that I recently “cut out” of Estiansian territory and turned to a separate state.

In Tarott (Wiki and map - bad mapping quality due to old vector imports), Kalm, there is a large Ventrian community and also a “Ventrian quarter” (Ventrisches Viertel) that has its own S-Bahn (suburban rail) station. Tarott was designed before OGF started and I came up with some cultures surrounding Kalm. And now I found a place for the Ventrians.

But: I haven’t any names yet for cities and other geographical features - and I didn’t decide what official language Ventria has.

So my question is now: What language for Ventria? What is your opinion?

It is surrounded by many Ulethan (“European”) languages, Kalmish (German), Estiensian (Hungarian), Garlish (Romanian) a bit further away, Franquese and Vinnish in Vinnmark, Welsich (a bit like Dutch?) - there are many more, as you know can find out using the map.

I’m open for any language, but probably a Ulethan (“European”) one would be great. Of course, a fantasy language “between” other European languages could also be nice. Or Ventria could have an official language that is spoken in Europe but not the “main official” language of any country.

I’m looking forward to your suggestions.

Happy mapping!

joschi81

Following up hmniak’s diary entry about ‘Geovision’, I saw a comment that there aren’t any other international competitions, other than sporting ones.

In fact there are a few:

The Martanidia Prizes are international prizes in Science, Medicine, Literature and Peace - equivalents of the Nobel Prizes.

The Jko Prize is an international art prize - equivalent of the Turner Prize, but extended internationally.

There is also the Cruz y Lopez prize, a prize for architecture.

Maybe there are others…

Happy mapping Udi

A somewhat different topic than usual.

If anyone is looking for mapping inspiration, or just out of curiosity, there is a twitter account called @unchartedatlas. It is a “bot” which produces imaginary maps “randomly” - obviously the design of the algorithm is probably pretty complex - the creator discusses it here. Some of the maps aren’t very realistic, but others are remarkable.

Happy mapping.

As railways are not a usual thing to me (there is VLT in Rio de Janeiro city since this year, but I did not go there yet), I have some doubts about using this tag in my maps.

I am imagining a rail route between Slovech - or Trindade - and Tarugo or Nova Baltimore. Because Slovech is the capital, and Tarugo I will build some important naval and heavy industries. If I create this route, it can be extended to Nova Baltimore, capital of province, just few kilometeres south to Tarugo.

First doubt: Could I use railway=light_rail?? I read in OSM Wiki light rail is a urban trnasport… this way, it would not be the best railway between these cities…

Second doubt: The terminus in Slovech area.

• can be in Trindade, a town I will re-map when I finish detailing Slovech. I prefer this idea, but “the passengers” would need to use another transportation (tram and buses) to follow to Slovech

• can be in Sant Theo, east Slovech. In fact, here there is integration to other transportations, as buses and trams, and here is some kind of “metropolitan terminus” - the bus routes from Trindade will stop here, only one or two will follow to Slovech downtown.

*can be in Slovech downtown… only if I can use tunnels, because seting so many buildings in Slovech, there is no space to new rail stations. Which railway= I can use with tunnels??

For now I am still with a lot of work to do in Slovech detailings, but, as I am also focused about creating correct relations to all my transport routes, I need to think about it too…

Bruno Moreira

Currently I use a self-made template to link map positions in wiki-articles.

The following options are available:

{{MER-coordinates … name of template

name = … displayed name

logo = … displayed logo (link to file) or “no”, if no logo

zoom =

latitude =

longitude = … coordinates and zoom

node = … or node number

}}

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Template:MER-coordinates

Is it also useful for your articles?

Hi. I’m new here and I need help with my city. It’s in Commonia and it is next to City of Charlington.

Thanks, Sam The Wox

I just started work on my new country I’m calling Aiau, and I just finished work on my forests and rivers. Does what I have so far look realistic? If not, please help to make it more realistic.

Thanks!

I am now reopening chances for editing memberships in Omniville!

Also, I would like YOU guys for 1. a WEDway PeopleMover system in the Omniville capital area (Omniville City) 2. Rivers and mountains (geography) in Omniville 3. Developing a railway and road network in the whole Omniville area

Please contact me if you would like to apply to join editing Omniville.

Tárrases is open for business!

The tiny city-state, in an ambiguous relationship with its giant, undemocratic neighbor Mahhal, has a history of laissez-faire capitalism and open borders. Because of this, it is a popular place for international brands seeking to get a foothold in Mahhal, and in any event there are almost no barriers to entry to the small domestic market for any international brand, manufacturer, franchise or retail chain.

The country’s surprisingly well-educated, cosmopolitan workforce typically receives below-market wages due to the country’s isolated location, uncertain political future, and cold, damp antarctic climate, with 20-hour-long winter nights. This is a capitalist paradise!

OOC

I have completed my landuse and landcover relations for Tárrases, and so I’m ready to get down to the business of business.

If you want to place your retail or manufacturing business in Tárrases, here’s how to do it. I want to make it easy.

… See full entry

What is the GSF about?

The GSF is an allusion to the Eurovision Song Contest, which should at least be familiar to all Europeans. Basically, it’s a competition to showcase your country’s artists. Of course, the contest also has a winner, which is determined by televoting (in our case by random principle) . Every country gives between 12 to 1 points to their favourite song. Obviously, the country with the most points wins.

Why do we need the GSF?

Browsing through the wiki you can find tons of sports-related competitions but nothing focusing on culture, let alone music. I think the GSF is a fun way to introduce something new to this platform.

How do I apply?

You can apply by commenting the following:

• Country representing
• Artist/Band/…
• Song title
• Genre
• Language sang in

An example:

• ABC-Country
• Best Band Ever
• Best Song Ever
• Pop-Rock
• Ingerish

When and where will the contest be held?

… See full entry

I’m really loving this. Still trying to learn JOSM, and am making progress in that regard, but still mostly using ID.

When I requested a country, I requested a fairly large one. An admin talked me out of it, and I can see his point. With all of the editing and re-editing I have done, working in a much larger area would have driven me nuts.

Anyway, come visit Quebertia. It’s very much a work in progress (as are all nations, I guess)

Recently it hit me- how come do we not have any (relevant) fictional web pages in OGF yet? Well, I spent the past few days brainstorming intensively and here are some ideas I came up with.

A search engine

There are plenty of them in the real world, but I think we’ll be fine with just one for now. As a test of pronounceability, I always try to use them in the sentence “If you don’t know, just ___ it!”

• Lokker - playing around with “look up”
• Ding - obvious Bing reference. don’t like this one very much because “ding it” sounds like a substitute swear word (like saying “dang it” instead of “damn it”)
• Najdu.db (pronounced “nye-do”) - an all-Drabantian search engine, in translation “I will find.db”

A video site

Look, the office workers in your countries just need to have a website to go to, procrastinating watching endless cat fail compilations.

• Playday - well the videos are so good, you’ll want to watch them all day

Social networks

Before you go like “ugh who even uses facebook in 2016 anymore,” remember there are soccer moms and lorry drivers in the OGF world too.

• Friender - a facebook-ish thing
• Beeper? Chirper (haa who else hated that b** bird in Cities:Skylines)? - a twitter-ish thing
• Snapdat! - yeah this one is not very original, but its teenage users are here for the dog filter and not the name, duhh
• Blurda - “blurter,” a place for anyone to blurt out their feelings and opinions in (real-life tumblr)

And also the most needed:

• Tender. Timber. Tinner. - just whatever

Other

• Pokemon Go. I am not a player or a Pokemon fan so I just have no idea
• Memes.

Write your ideas and suggestions!

Hey, I’ve signed up over a year ago but haven’t really been that active since then. However, the past few weeks/months I tried improving my country Elhádhon.

I’m rather proud of my achievements around the area of Andreassjäda which is supposed to resemble a rather fertile area with focus on agricultural use. It provides the rather arctic country with food. However, before getting more into detail and work (which I plan to do the next few weeks), I’d like to receive some feedback from you guys.

Thanks in advance, Hmniak

• How can I get a grey map (one of these used to show the location of countries, just like in Wikipedia)?

• Can I actually edit the topo map and make it look like a real topo map?