Hello everyone!

I was mapping and assigning names to places or roads ; and I wondered : are there any important or famous people (significant figures like heroes, politicians, celebrities…) in OGF world ; and may their names be given to streets, roads… ? (like in the real world)

Thanks for your answers!

Responding to Luciano’s challenge, I would like to know a bit more what other mappers think about this area. The map is obviously far from complete - and there are still relics of earlier experiments there - but, all in all, what in this city is wrong? What should I focus on deleting and reworking?

For background, there is info in the Kėzėpölān wiki, but all this is tentative (especially the economic stuff). The main points may be:

• cool climate

• very limited private car ownership

• focus on family life and education

• commitment to ‘self-sufficiency’ in food production, wide use of marine resources

• commitment to hi-technology and industry

• commitment to development of sports and arts

you can of course critique these as well.

Happy mapping Udi

I guess last month’s challenge was a little bit lame - and of course, because of my travels I did not participate. If anyone did something interesting with coastlines, I’d be interested to see - sorry if I missed it.

As most of you know, I’ve been agonizing over Mahhal’s verisimilitude quite a bit - mainly climate, but also sociological factors, population, etc. I’ll post some more detailed thoughts about that later, probably to my newly-redeveloped “bliki” rather than to my diaries here - I’m going to try to keep my diary entries to more “community focused” things, like these monthly challenges.

Luciano’s Mapper’s Challenge #9 - December, 2016 - Oops

This month’s challenge is about mistakes. We all have made many mistakes, in OGF. Maybe because we were still learning. Maybe because we ran with an idea we later regret. Maybe because we just got bored with the way things were working out in an area, and we left it unfinished. A lot of times, we just kind of move on to other projects, because of the amount of time we invested in that “mistake” makes us hesitate to delete it or start over. We feel regret, but we don’t do anything about it.

So let’s “clean up” some big mistake. Frankly, there are whole countries that might be charitably classified as mistakes. If you are really confident that you have made no mistakes, then I envy you, but I still hope you accept this challenge - you can clean up someone else’s mistake (with their permission, of course, or for stuff abandoned by past users). Please don’t invest in Commonia, however, since that large territory is slated for major changes, and investing energy there is probably a bad idea.

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I have made a blank map of the Great Sothern Island. Part of the Harda Archipelago, is the island where Semer Republic and Aŭstrasuno Tero are.

I made it first downloading all the coastline data from OGF in JOSM, there was a need to filer it using the search options in JOSM (natural=coastline selected). All those filtered data, which should be the coastline and the administrative borders, where copied and pasted in the same position into a new layer in JOSM, then I exported it to a .gpx file. Using the aplication gpx2svg I converted the .gpx file to a .svg one. Once converted, I used Inkscape to read the .svg and then exporting the final draw to a .png file. This was made using Linux, I don’t know if there is a way to do it in Windows or Mac, but there should be (if not, try Linux, it is free :D !).

This is a blank map, it is an example of how to get blank maps easily.

nevermind

It looks like the Northern border was vandalized once again. I tried to fix it. I am not sure if I fixed correctly to render.

The flood waters have returned. Can someone dry out Commonia?

Hi there!

During the last days, I was the victim of several “rookie attacks”, there were unwanted modifications in my country from several new editors (i think you all experienced this kind of edits). Even if those edits are quite small and localized in general, it would be quite comfortable to just undo the changeset the user made. Is there any way to implement this?

Greetings and happy mapping! Markus

Lately, i have been thinking a lot about the creation of non-OGF maps of OGF countires, continents etc…

So i thought, to practice my Inkscape mapping even more, i thought i would offer anyone who is having trouble creating general maps the opportunity to let me experiment and see what turns out best.

If you are willing to have me make a map of your country, please notify me below.

Michal

Hello everyone,

I’ve recently contact some user to set up flights from and to Balonis. I now thought: why not posting a diary to contact everyone at once? (And I also thought, why didn’t I think about this earlier :p) So here it is:

The past three weeks I’ve been working on my flag carrier airline BalonisAir. I would really like to add more flights. So, please give me suggestions in the reactions below where I could fly to. Do it as follows:

DESTINATION // COUNTRY // RECOMMENDED FREQUENCY (DAILY OR WEEKLY)

Example: Malojdeh International Airport // Neo Delta // 2 daily

Example2: Aéropuerto Regional Trece Templos // Ardisphere // 5 weekly (1 flight on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, 2 flights on Friday)

I’m looking forward to add some destinations!

Also, if you want to fly from your country to Balonis read the following. You always have permission to fly to Aeropuerto Internacional de Ciudad de Balonis. If you want to fly to another airport (for example the one in Morros) please contact me by sending a message.

Greetings, Niels20020

I think I have flooded the Great Southern Island. What should I do? How can I fix it?

Hello fellow mappers, how are you all doing? I’d like to show you something really interesting I’ve found online, if thats ok with the admins. To start: So I’m myself from the ,Ruhr Area’ in western germany, which is a huge urban area that used to be germanys central steel and coal producer,with about 8 million people and a population density of about 2000/km, almost 8000/km if you only count the central urban part.The area used to be dominated by heavy industry until the 1980s and has managed to move more towards other businesses. Theres a agency that takes care of special projects like museums and also, here it gets interesting, Aerial Footage taken all the way from the 1930s until today. Some time ago these were published on a website called ,, https://www.luftbilder.geoportal.ruhr/ ‘’. Why am I telling you? Because if offers the opportunity to view the development of an european urban agglomeration in the past 90 years with footage from 1926,1934, 1952,1963,1969,1990, 1998, 2006, 2009 and 2015. I believe this is unique in that we have aerial ,google maps’ style footage of such an large and important area and that it might be helpful to be able to take it as help to see how cities have developed, with fields being transformed into endless suburbs or large industrial sites being used for modern warehouses or parks. You can zoom all the way in and even see how much space was given to cars during the 60s-90s and how cities started to re-arange urban spaces, large through roads becoming pedestrian zones etc. or zoom out and look how all these autobahnen that used to be under construction in the 1969 view are not only finished but covering the whole area, and where in the 1990 view one can obviously see the space where they wanted to continue but didnt.

If you want you can take a look, I’m sure others would find that interesting to look at aswell. Happy Mapping -kingfries (Oh and admins excuse me for this ,non-ogf-world’ post)

The 63km of Lonowai’s bridges / trestles (/ causeways?)! The existing set was recently upgraded with a new 25km bridge to Lito.

It’s not feasible, is it? Sea would be far too deep.

L/

I’ve recently taken a break from ‘ultra’ high-detail mapping in Plowford(you might need to zoom in), and focus with some work on the Glastian capital, Wyndham.

Wyndham need a significant cleanup. Unlike most of my towns and cities, it was drawn in a rather haphazard fashion, and rather than drawing Wyndham all in one go, which was possible with all my smaller settlements, I decided to draw Wyndham gradually. This posed problems; Wyndham became a patchwork of poorly mapped, well mapped and iffy areas. I decided to fix the problem this week. Below is what Wyndham looked like before and after.

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Thanks for the recent changes, the “hamburger” menu is a big improvement on small screens.

Hello Everyone. I am new to this community, and I want to add a wikia page for my [country] (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=7/11.555/35.442) which barely has anything yet (you know, for later). What do I do, and if so, what exactly do I write in these pages? Stuff like in the real Wikipedia?

Also, how do I make harbours which look real, like this? Does it require moving coastline or there’s another way?

Hello everyone.

Today and tomorrow I have a lot of time but I’m tired, no ideas. I would like to ask community for advice and corrections for area of Anderton, so my project can benefit from the plenty of time. Thanks!

http://www.opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-45.2469/37.4540

I’m going to try to keep this simple.

I recently asked for feedback on Tárrases. The main criticism that “holds weight” is the latitude problem - the country seems too temperate for its almost-Antarctic latitude (64° S).

This criticism applies not just to Tárrases but to all of Mahhal.

I have attempted to mitigate concerns about latitude with a “just so” story about a warm Harda Current and some geothermal heating of inland bodies of water (a la Iceland, essentially). But the story might not be geophysically plausible.

I am not willing to make Mahhal a more “arctic” country (i.e. more sparsely populated, colder, less agricultural, etc.). I have a strong pre-existing imaginative vision for the country that dates to my childhood.

So I have a question for the community.

Does Mahhal’s current climate (temperate rainforest, like Southeast Alaska, coastal British Columbia, southern Chile, or southern Norway), population (pretty high: 20-30 million), etc., violate verisimilitude? Is the latitude problem a “dealbreaker”?

Please vote simply yes or no.

If the majority votes yes, then Mahhal will either be moved (a la Karolia) or, more likely, deleted, to be replaced with some other country that will match verisimilitude.

I’m happy to comply with the community consensus on this matter. But I’d like to have a record of community support for the plan before putting any more work into it.

Thanks and happy mapping.

Edit: to clarify, I do not want to be compared to other countries. Of course there are countries with worse verisimilitude issues (perhaps most countries in OGF!), but my goal is to view verisimilitude objectively and set an example without hypocrisy. This is important since as a volunteer admin, I should be enforcing the rule with others.

Question:

Do any of you have paper or digital maps of your country; or the OGF world itself, on paper or .svg, .png or .jpg files?

After looking at an Oxford Students Atlas i had the idea of having one for our world.

I know however, that our world is continuosly being changed, and is currently not even close to started. This would pose a problem, however i could update it time to time.

Your thoughts?

Hello everyone,

I’ve just created a small airport (see it here) and I want to name the runways for the wiki page. I know how to name them, becuase of this wikipedia page, but I don’t know how to see in what angle the runway is heading. Can someone help me? I’m using JOSM.

Greetings, Niels