On OpenStreetMap Wiki there is that article (osm.wiki/Multilingual_names) about usage of Key:name:language-code when adding names for pepole who want to render the map in different languages. Does it make sense to use it in OGF? If yes, are we supposed to use language codes for real-life languages or we can use the OGF ones (for example :in (as in Ingerish) instead of :en)?

I’ve been since a month ago with this idea around my head. What about creating a gulf on the southeastern part of the Vinn sea? The gulf would give Esthensia and Vinnmark bigger coastlines, as well as creating a Denmark shaped peninsula where Welstand-Westrijk and Shilesia are, so they would gain a coastline (pretty interesting if they want to fully integrate in the Vinn Sea community) , they would significantly increase their territory and they would lose these artificial-looking frontiers which look really odd in a region that seems to be inspired by Old Europe. Vinnmark’s new coastline would look a bit like the east coast of Sweden, with lagoons and pretty detailed islands, and I would be able to connect Berles to the sea (make it look like Stockholm and Helsinki mixed together).

The image features a basic scheme of how would it look, of course we would improve it a lot.

So what do you think?

Ive been thinking about us having our own sort of “Seed Vault”. Something similar to that of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, i would hope this to be built on the slope of “Lodovec”, a mountain in Litvania at 4698m a.s.l

This would have its own wiki article, and would obviously be on the map. Anyway, i have a lot of ideas nowadays. Let me know if your interested.

Hey Guys!

Today i want to start calling for embassies! All nations are welcome to have an embassy in the Lorava Embassy District.

I would also ask if anyone would like to build one for Litvania in their nation. I am sure this would improve communication and recognition between our nations!

Do we have a blank map of the world like this one. I want to use it for the destinations of BalonisAir.

This is kind of a “fun” post to talk about metropolitan divisions which is usually an area of several suburbs (As in not counted as part of the main municipality) that have something in common whether income geography etcetera. It is kind of cool to divide a metro into things like that and truly no large metro unless one were the main city is absolutely dominating sort of like Houston, Texas were I live, or sprawl is equal in all general directions; don’t have these divisions. Even in the Houston example their are regions that people normally group as slightly separate in the Houston area like Fort Bend County, Galveston County, Montgomery County’s but these don’t really count. Real World Examples- North Shore Chicago- wealthy towns on the lake north of Chicago. Best Southwest Dallas- A region of Dallas that is known mostly for it’s high AA middle class. NOVA- Northern Virginia suburbs that have their own CBD’s and while connected to D.C is an impressive area of multiple million people Main Line- Philadelphia (collection fo historically wealthy suburbs) etcetera. This isn’t just an American concept it is just that America popped to my mind first. As you can see they vary in sizes from as little as 160,000 people (Best SW) to more than 3.5 million (NOVA).

Here are some named and unnamed OGF examples.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/20.4230/86.5541 South Gobras city Area- (unnamed) discussed this with indyroads???? or another mapper in the area a few months back that the economy while not solely based has a large amount of its GDP coming in from the grooming and breeding of horses.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/20.6872/86.9204 East Gobras city Area-(unnamed), it is just a cluster of suburbs east of Gobras not sure what they would be known for.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/18.8241/88.9934 Depending on the number of commuters the Marapura area and a few of the bordering suburbs can be called Gobrasi Khaiwoon or something.

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I thought of some ideas for this site.

1. A custom world creator would be awesome! That way people can make their own worlds too by making their own continents, countries, and permissions on what countries people can edit or not be able to edit. And to where you can create an unlimited number of worlds.

2. A driving simulator for Opengeofiction so people can enjoy driving on the roads and such. (it can have different modes you can choose from below)
3. Realistic Real Life-like Mode
4. GPS Mode (custom voices - you can make your own custom voice too and make it the way you want it to speak) It can be like you’re going on a trip!
5. Cars around you mode (With cars driving around; you can set up traffic too)

6. Custom vehicle and transportation mode (you can use any vehicle stuff)

7. Realistic Aerial pictures on the map (and to where you can place trees, signs, mountains, custom images on signs, etc. on the aerial map) (2D and 3D)

These ideas can also be great for future news reports.

These are just suggestions…

I’ll be able to tell the rest of ideas soon if I can remember the others.

Thanks for reading. - JoshuaRoadMapper

Hey there, how are you all doing today? Some time ago one of you posted a link here where you can create a Seat Distribution Layout for the government. I can’t find it anymore so I wanted to ask you guys where you can find it. Thanks a lot in advance. Kingfries

Hey,

Just a quick question:

How fast dies time in OGF run in comparison to real time?

I updated JOSM to version 10966 (windows) yesterday like a good boy should. The performance at high zoom levels (16+) is sluggish and glitching, finally hanging up and crashing when zoomed all the way in. Its unusable for fine city work. Before I revert to an older version: Does anyone have a similar experience? Any wisdom to share? Yes I have updated Java to the most recent version too.

Thanks in advance, r.s.

I am opening procurements on developing Omniville. The procurements include

• Development of geography (rivers, mountains etc)
• Development of roads and railroads
• Construction of public transport, subways, buses
• Construction of a new 3-terminal airport in Ouroboro
• Development of new cities

Please message me for more info.

Thank you!

Hey there,

I’m a bit lost when it comes to importing additional templates (usually infoboxes) from wikipedia to the ogf wiki. I’ve copied the code for the official post template, as well as the respective /doc template, but don’t really know what to do to get the items in {{{ }}} show up as they should. Do I miss “sub-templates” from the original wiki, or is it a completely different issue? And is this idea even practical? Thanks in advance :)

Hi everyone,

For my octobre challenge I focused on an Island here. This Island is located in the Midi archipelago which is a very touristic area.

I concentrated my mapping on land use, coast line and details in the some villages. I am quite pleased with the result even if some things could be way better.

Unfortunaltly, october was not long enough for me to finish this project. I will try to complete it as soon as i can.

Happy Mapping Thomas

Do we have major sports clothes manufacturers in OGF?

I need one (or more) to produce the official clothes of my sports teams.

Hello folks! I just happened to realized I created my OGF account 1 year ago today, the time has just flown by.

Below is Patriot City after one year of work. This is a city inspired by Philadelphia and its surrounding area.

I’m working on filling in the entire city before I move on to its suburbs and the rural areas of Jefferson. I do have a lot planned for that. I have not done much work on the wiki yet, I plan to do a lot more in the future.

Demographically, the wealth in the city is concentrated to the south and east, with some exceptions.

Recently I’ve been working on the south side of the city. This is an area along the river, a few miles south of Center City. It is very “old money.”

By contrast, the large north side area is lower middle class, consisting mostly of densely packed single family homes, low density apartment complexes, and a few trailer parks.

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Hello How are you guys? Did anyone else notice that the map seems to update really slow? Usually when I edit it should take no more than a couple hours at most to update, sometimes even only a hour. But now when I map something it literally takes up to 3 days before it even partially shows up on the map. Anyone else have similar experiences? (Edit: Now it seems to show it partially on closely zoomed in. I’ll keep an eye on that anyways.)

Hello,

For the September Challenge, I built an extensive tram system for my biggest city. As you can see it’s quite unfinished. I plan it to be at about twice the current size. I managed to write a script to create a multimap showing the routes. Unfortunately it works only fine for this network. The trouble is, that tram routes usually share tracks and I cannot show more than one colour per line. It’s ok here, as I gave the lines priorities: Red tangentials are always shown on top, coloured radials below that, and at the bottom are the lettered cross-city-lines, which are all dark gray. It works for the stops anyway. So it could work for an yother network, but the tracks would be in only one colour then.

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/%C3%8Bangariri_Tram

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Template:%C3%8BangaririTramRouteMap

For the October challenge: I got bored. I mapped some livestock anyway…

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-20.70259/124.30780

A few days ago, I thought: “The northern coast doesn’t look good. Something has to be done!” So, the November challenge came just in time.

There will be a coastal tram line like the one in Belgium. There will be three cities at the coast: Rhynlly, Shannondale, and the Port of Port Lewis. (Some renaming would also be nice.) These cities will have small tram networks connected by the coastal tram. Further away from the coast will be motorway 10. I also have lagoons and other fancy stuff in mind, but obviously they can’t all be at the same place. So, there will be a bit of planning first and then it will take some days until construction begins…

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/-17.4450/126.8605

Hey guys,

Im new, and i own UL108d, or Litvania. 2 things:

1.)Im hvong problems with JOSM, and this is urgent, so i need help. Whenever i dpwnload the data from the OGF server, it dosent show up a map, but a grid of red crosses. Ive made sure all the settings are correct, and they are.

2.)I am a bit dissapointed, because its been 3-4 days since i changed the name of my territory, and its still not changed.(Sorry if this offends the admins, however i am a bit impatient)

Anyway, a wiki will be up soon, so youll be able to know more about my nation sometime this year/month.

Can we Make 4 Counties in Sutarasa District in Gobrassanya:

1. Kalabag County
2. Uchina County
3. Roodville County
4. Katyapura County

My Porposal

I did some good work on rural zones of Tárrases during October’s challenge, but compared to some other users’ work, I really didn’t do that much. Nevertheless, I’m pleased with how things are progressing. I placed some more of my “blue rice” (a fictional cold-climate rice cultivar) terraces and some greenhouses for trunk farms, and plenty of mountain roads and tracks.

Tárrases is currently fully covered in landuses and buildings, but I intend to expand the built-up areas over time with more historically-oriented growth. There are currently about 6800 named objects and over 30,000 building=* tags in the city state.

For the month of November, I will be offline for much of the time. I will be traveling internationally for the first time since my cancer two years ago. I will be in the U.S. visiting relatives and friends in California, Minnesota and Alaska.

So I decided to choose a challenge that is NOT something I want to work on. It’s time to work on coastlines, mappers! Start your editing tools…

Luciano’s Mapper’s Challenge #8 - November, 2016 - Après nous, le déluge

I think everyone needs to have basic coastline editing and maintenance skills, and frankly, even well-mapped countries often have pretty poorly done coastlines. People are afraid to work on coastlines because of the render issues (i.e. the “floods” that sometimes happen). But working on coastlines is a great way to build editing skills, and if lots of people develop these skills, our world will be better, and drier!

Coastlines need a lot of detail. Some fairly well mapped coastline areas in OGF include these locations:

Tropical Islands: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/16.1194/71.9374

Fjords: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/-64.2285/82.3137

Coastal Bays and Barrier Islands: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/-24.4395/124.2085

River Deltas: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=10/52.6335/70.4546

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