Any confirmed release date for the new continents?

Looks like Commonia is flooded. I think I caused it up on the NE Coast on the Northern Reagan border. I was trying to fix some of the issues there from earlier today. I though I had a file on file for the area but couldn’t find one.

But seriously though, what in the hell?

Hey you guys,

I found this interesting video on youtube about why some cities are considered beautiful and others ugly: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c

Bonus: Why some countries are poor and others rich https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9-4V3HR696k

Hope this helps with creating beautiful and interesting cities and countries.

Enjoy!

Hello there. I’ve been not editing so much since I got so much problems with JOSM, principally with the conection, read time out, problems with the plugin, etc… This have made my editing more slow than I would like and I can. I’m waiting for the release of Linux Mint 18 KDE, hoping that a fresh and clean install of the OS could repair the problem with JOSM. I wanted to work with a topo map, with Aŭstrasuno Tero first, then the whole Great Southern Island (after agreeing and discussing with thermo_nuclear about Semer Republic, of course). But, then I got this problem with JOSM and I cannot keep editing the coastline, islands and another bigger physical features.

By the way, I may be working with the wiki info, wich doesn’t involve some much edition and is something pending.

When making ward boundaries (or county boundaries, etc. drawing the lines will not suffice. you need to create a relation that wraps around the entire ward, county, state, and add the lines to the relation and then give the relation the tags rather than tagging the lines themselves.

Additionally … going over the same boundary line TWICE or THREE times for two or three adjoining territories is not appropriate. The same line can be drawn once and just added to the various relations after the fact. it is the proper way to draw and assign boundaries. If your boundary is a river, then just use the RIVER line as the boundary instead of drawing another line over that line, just segment the portion of the river that is the boundary and add it to the appropriate relation(s)

I’m bad at naming things. My first town is simpel, going for First, second, and so forth, as well as streets named after trees. Beyond that…

Any thoughts on this?

Cleared entry.

After taking some advice, I decided to start small, and take geography and history more into account with my country. Presented here is the beginnings of the town of Ft. Smithson.

I’m not really good with names.

I did put a little detail in.. a Fort (to go with the town’s name,) a national monument boundary, and visitor center. I couldn’t help myself. I also named all my streets, and created two route numbers.

It’s not much work, but I am pleased.

Having looked once again at Commonia, I got slightly depressed. (You’ll feel the same way if you take a look) So I decided to express my depression by working on the Commonian wiki article. I’ve added an ‘economy’ section, which talks about illegal Commonian activity including human trafficking, forced labour, the Commonian drug industry and the Commonian Confederation’s weapons exports. I’ve also talked about the AN’s failure to control illegal activity inside Commonia. Perhaps this is a link to how we cannot control what is mapped inside Commonia.

I’ve got some questions to ask you. Feel free to answer any of them.

1. Has your country, rebel group or terrorist organisation bought any illegal Commonian weapons? (You can say yes, even if your country doesn’t admit it)
2. Does your country have criminal links to Commonia?
3. Have any companies admitted to using Commonian labour to make its stuffs? (You can say yes even if the company doesn’t admit it)
4. Has your country ever bought raw materials in Commonia?
5. Does your country have companies operating in Commonia?
6. Is there an OGF equivalent to the fairtrade standard or a World Trade Organisation?

If you’ve got points you would like to discuss, leave them below if you wish.

Is there such a thing as the E-road network in OGF? If not, is someone interested in creating that system?

I understand that Gobras City is a blue area and anyone can feel free to edit whatever they please. I think going forward there needs to be some communication regarding edits to other’s work. For the last two years I made it a habit not to make changes to any previous work no matter how it looked and if I did it would be very minor. I really didn’t mind when half of my schools were renamed, airports turned into bases, removing the park background of the zoo etc. What does bother me is the several hours of work I did near Sky Point Boulevard & Lamong Road. A lot of the area is now changed without any notice. If someone felt the traffic pattern did not work or they did not like it then send me a message. One of the reasons I like Gobras City so much is the interaction with other users and their work and they way it is starting grow like a real city flaws and all.

Cleared entry.

First Harbor celebrated it’s 3rd OGF anniversary today. Three years went by pretty quickly. I have been building small monuments since September 3rd, 2015 here in First Harbor.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=19/34.40508/144.13254

For my challenge last month, “What’s in a name?” (August 2016), I added about 1600 names to my city state of Tárrases, advancing from about 2800 names to a current total of 4400.

I fell far short of my revised objective of 10000 names. I feel sad because of that, but… I was very busy outside of OGF, with “real life,” so that’s my excuse. I will continue working on it.

This challenge did not seem to be very popular. I guess for a lot of people, names are not an important part of their geofictional undertakings. Certainly the popularity of maps with unnamed streets and other features in our world indicates that for many, names are an afterthought.

I know a few people worked on it, though. Feel free to post your results in the comments, below, or with your own diary.

Thinking about Public Transportation

One of my main interests in geofiction is in the area of public transportation infrastructure: trains, subways, buses, etc. It has always been fascinating to me. But after a few efforts in that direction with my metropolis at Villa Constitución, I have mostly been intentionally avoiding placing public transportation infrastructure, because I feel like to do it correctly, it needs to be built “in response to” the pre-existing geography. It doesn’t make sense to make a detailed, elaborate subway system, as I did in Villa Constitución, when the city itself is really just the skeleton of a city, without well-conceived history or neighborhoods or topography, etc.

From a technical standpoint, I’m very proud of my RUTA-VC multimap and other work (like the Green Line wiki article) done for that city’s subway system. Here is a screenshot from last year.

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911 - 1st village created in Southern part of Karamskie Lake. Name of village is Perwa. 923 - There is 17 more villages nearby of Perwa. 942 - First King of Perwa is forcing people from every village about 70 km far from Capital to become his property. 1032 - 1450 - war with tribes living nearer of sea. 1451 - 1512 - time of peace and development of Perwian Kingdom. Nov. 13 1512 - Enemous army burned Capital City and 4327 villages in south- western part of Kingdom. They took this area 1 year later. King had to escape Capital City and Run Away to safer villages. He stayed in Village named Sawra. 1513 - Sawra became city and Capital of Kingdom. 1645 - Sawra bigger than Perwa. 1919 - First democratic electron after death of last King Piotr XXVIII. 1920 - Changed name of Country to Karamska Republika (Karamsk’s Republic) April 15 1936 - Agarderia started war with Karamska Republika, breaking border wall 24 km in the east from Weerhay (Werlanowice). They took this area after 1,5 years of fighting. 1939 - Karamsk’s Republic changed system of law and became Federal Republic. 1940 - In eastern part of country Created Federal Area of Restricted Enter. In 1936 Agarderian Army used nuclear bombs there. 15.01.2015 - Changed name and law system to “Karamska Unia Narodów (Karamsk’s Union of Nations)”, what changed relations with neighbours, by giving more right to minorities in all parts of country 2016 - Opened first road between Karamska Unia narodów and Agarderia.

Seriously considering deleting my work and startign from scratch. Not really happy with how things are progressing Maybe I’m just being too critical, but somehow everything just seems off to me. I’d keep the bay and my main east- west thoroughfare, but everything else is fair game. I like some of what I’ve done, but my lack of straight roads and square corners (and I’d also add lack of scale) is hurting my opinion of my work thus far. It doesn’t help looking at what others have done is also kinda bumming me out.

Two things to announce:

1) I have created an OpenGeoFiction Pinterest board - it’s called simply OpenGeoFiction. Going to post all the Featured Pictures and articles. This could generate some interest and perhaps get quality articles and pictures to a wider audience. You will get nagged to sign in but it’s viewable even if you don’t want to. Anybody with Pinterest who wants to collaborate message me.

https://www.pinterest.com/sarepava/opengeofiction/

2) I invite users to place foreign businesses in the city of Känton, Karolia which is nearing completion. Message me for details.

Hello, I am a new user who has just started developing my country of Tengappei in central Antarephia. I’m currently just doing the coastline, major rivers and geographical features.

I’ve just completed the start to the wiki article and I would like your help to check over my stats, especially language. My current plan is to have a Japanese-English mix because I am half Japanese, half English (but I can’t really write in Japanese). After some research, I decided Nihonish is probably the correct language, and it is the same as the nearby country Paxtar. However, I’m not sure what the nearby countries ‘Heben’, ‘Hidara’, and ‘Koberro’ languages are (especially Koberro with that really long name). I’ve even asked by fluent Japanese sister to help and she couldn’t work it out.

Another question I have is the colonial history of Antarephia. Which countries have said they were colonized? I understand that it is my own choice but I would like to base it off the surroundings and the information on the wiki wasn’t very detailed. Any other feedback, such as on my coastlines or climate, is welcome. With climate, countries nearby, like Koberro, are marked as a cold climate, despite my own research which suggested countries near me should have a fairly warm, Mediterranean perhaps, climate with very little snow. Thank you.

EDIT: I just realized the post below me was on climate by nearby country Paxtar, who gave it a lower climate that I did. My country is on a warmer ocean current but I should probably lower the temperature a bit (or possibly Paxtar raise the temperature a bit- real life equivalents have average temperature of 20C).

Cleared entry.