Hi there,

on Facebook, I’m following a group called Map Porn. They share Posts about maps and things about maps of any kind. Take a look:

https://www.facebook.com/mapporn/?fref=ts

Maybe we could contact the admin team and ask if they would like to feature OGF on their page. What do you think, is this kind of “active marketing” useful?

Greetings, Markus

Hey admins!

I have a quick question:

Is it possible to enable editing in iD at zoom levels like 13 or 14?

It really is annoying when you im working on something, and then load a larger render, only to find a horrendous creation of “god-knows-what”.

Please explain why if it is not.

https://twitter.com/opengeofiction

What railway gauge(s) does your country use? I’m just curious, sorry if this has been discussed before.

Drabantia uses three gauges:

• 1435 mm - vast majority of tracks
• 1000 mm - trams in smaller cities/towns (they’re not mapped yet)
• 760 mm - industrial spurs and railways in mountainous areas (they’re also not mapped yet, heh)

These people on this website seem really nice! I have a few qustions:

-How do I officially make my city? (I dont have a territory yet) -Where should I start for the world lore (I like to read as chronologicaly as possible)?

That’s all, I’ll look more stuff up now…

Anyway, thanks for reading this diary, and could you please direct me to important resources?

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LOL bye! :P

As the majority of you guys know. This world is extremely wealthy when compared to earth because most people want a country that is rich. Of course I felt the urge to build a United States like country since I live in the U.S, and I am sure it is the same for msot of you guys. I so far have not made any extremely wealthy countries but made two nations that likely will be middle of the road. Hoppon somewhere between China/Malaysia/Eastern Europe levels of development. Lallemand, better than most African nations but still pretty poor. I want to ask more specifically if any of you guys implement poverty into you mapping. By what I mean, extremely wealthy areas even in a high density situation are lower density (30 apartments per floor vs. 4) while poor areas are a lot higher density. This is not true across the board but can be followed in any country that isn’t the U.S.

Also as someone who is interested in criminal activity (don’t take this the wrong way), just as much as city planning. Almost every city I build have accompanying murder rates to follow. I was wondering how is criminal activity in your country. Who commits crimes? Is it poor immigrants? Is it teenagers or young adults? Or is it middle aged men (gangsters)? Is it rural people moving to an urban environment? How do gangs normally start in your country, or is there even any gangs?

their are some pages, that you can add to the dark side of your cities if you want to http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate As mentioned early since I like detective shows and the history of crime and how policies have been made that lower or higher crime etc. Most cities on this list are from my nation of Lallemand.

I added three states to Palaseskia and the names are not showing up. I tried refreshing a long time later, but they are still not showing up. I did name them though.

I can see the borders, but not the names.

Hi! How do you change a city name, like City of odess to Odessa? Signed, Zhen Kang

Hey there, Welcome to OGF, I’d like to remind you of some short things:

1st: CALM…DOWN… we all do mistakes, no ones gonna rip your head off for doing mistakes.

2nd: CALM….DOWN… Yes we saw that deleted coastline or messed up border etc., no thats not a reason to panic or be ashamed or whatever. Also mind that OGF tends to take its time so checking the next morning should be early enough to proudly look at your mapping results.

3rd: CALM…….DOWN…. Everyone starts from the bottom, but before asking if we are ok with every little detail It’d be useful if you read through the help pages and wiki articles before. Maybe that’ll help you decide, afterall if its not unrealistic its ,your’ country (if you claimed your own already) and you can do whatever you have planned.

Have Fun and Happy Mapping :)

(If this also doesnt help make sure to bother the admins with your questions hehe)

Hi!

I have a question especially to the admin team. My edits north of the polar circle take unusually long to be seen on the map during the last days and were only partly completed (the rendering process seemed to stop an a certain line which randomly(?) matches with the northern polar circle). Currently, it took more than one day even on the higher zoom levels until the content shows up, and somehow, on one zoom level, the map wasn’t updated for three days. And some edits around the Frederikshöfn area show up only partly on different map styles and only different zoom levels, too. I’ve never experienced that kind of weird rendering behaviour. Were/are there any rendering problems? And in general, what are the rendering intervals for the map?

Greetings, Markus

While I was editing my territory, I began to notice huge swaths of water where land should be. After checking parts of my coastline that I recently worked on, I realized that the continent of Uletha seems to have been flooded elsewhere.

Can someone please resolve the problem for me? Thanks.

Even though I did the country naming, it still says UL015h and not Palaseskia.

I did what I was suppose to do in order to make the map show it is Palaseskia, but it isn’t working. Is there a reason?

Hey Guys!

Thanks to @isleño ‘s recommendations, i started to work on a large county in Eastern Litvania. Its the Lurkov County. This is a small hilly region that is part of the Eastern Litvanian Highlands, and i just wanted to see if you have any tips or recommendations as what it looks like now, amd what it will be in the future.

Michal

On the wiki page, I saw there are organizations, like the Assembly of Nations, ANESCO, ANICEF, and other organizations.

How do I join one and what do members do?

Hello there, fellow mappers!

I’ve started the first major approach to shape the coastline of north-eastern Norðurland. It’s not that easy, because I have a vast fjord scape in mind. I hinted that in one of my early mapping sessions with that “saber-tooth shape” of the coastline. Now, I finally want to map the whole thing out.

But there’s a problem: the details. When you take some minutes to closely inspect this (not so) random snippet of the norwegian coastline:

osm.org/#map=12/58.9968/10.0690

you’ll see that there are dozens of hundreds of islands, all in a very rough shape. A realistic rocky fjord coastline is suchlike rutted that it is almost impossible to map it out completely in this century, eypecially on such a length. What you see in the linked map is a coastline of ca. 30 km while the coastline which I intend to “fjordize” (from Frederikshöfn northwards, measured straight, without those cuts) is 3000 km - just mainland, not the huge islands… This means millons of small isles and thousands of narrow and wide cuts, fjords and lots of frustration…

… See full entry

I am happy to present my nation called Palaseskia.

Here is the climate: Hot summers and cold winters.

Transportation: It will have American-like roads.

I will need to know some of the history of the countries that neighbor Palaseskia in order for me to start the history of Palaseskia.

It is also known as the Republic of Palaseskia and has been a republic ever since the beginning of its existing time. Palaseskia does a presidential election every 4 years (it use to be every 2 years).

The capital name has not been confirmed yet.

The first city I will start with is one on the northern coast. (A coast name coming soon)

Palaseskia’s road systems: 1. Palaway The Palaway Highway System is a freeway system in Palaseskia. On the signs, it’s labeled P (number) for short. The images of the signs will be revealed soon. 2. Palaroute The Palaroute System is mostly a non-freeway system and is labeled PA (number) for short on the signs. Note: More routes coming soon.

I still need to figure out what districts, provinces, or states I should have.

Also, I might do something like this: http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Frequently_asked_questions#Can_I_split_up_my_territory_into_several_countries.3F

Pronunciation of Palaseskia: Pal-uh-ses-key-uh

The people of Palaseskia are Palaseskians.

Official Languages: Ingerish and Palaseskian Other Languages: To be confirmed (your language could be spoken there too if you want it to be, but it needs a small number of speakers)

More information for Palaseskia is coming soon.

Help! I’ve downloaded JOSM, and I’ve been following the OGF wiki page onto how to get JOSM to use the OpenGeofiction map, but i’ve gotten extremely confused at what to do all together? What does it mean adding the server? It was already on Selected entires, it’s not in the default entries? What’s the “Imagery” menu? Where do I input the OGF map layers. I am extremely confused :c

So Luciano’s current monthly challenge, ‘oops’, challenges us to fix any previous mistakes and, seeing there are probably many mistakes with my progress so far, I though I could try attempting Luciano’s challenge. So, here I am, slightly over 3 months after starting work on Tengappei, looking over my country, seeing what needs to be changed, and I thought that your feedback could be very useful, especially seeing the feedback to other player’s countries.

Whole country

So my country, Tengappei, has only some basic planning as well as a few, fairly detailed coasts and rivers. I tried following the wikis advice on how wide to make rivers and such but I feel as though I have ended up with some really narrow rivers with a perhaps too big delta. It is meant to be a tide and wave focused delta, but I might have made the rivers impact too strong. But the thing I have been focusing on is the capital city, Oniko.

Oniko

I’ve really only been doing the main roads, railways and tram lines, but recently, I’ve added some more details in the city centre with various buildings. I still need to add some more buildings as well as tag everything but I am fairly happy with the detail so far. The city is meant to be very much a commuter focused city, with a massive pedestrianized area in the center. Is this too unrealistic? I haven’t written the history of the city yet (I plan to write it this Christmas- this is the wiki so far: http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Tengappei ) but I have some ideas for reasons behind it. The main thing I think I made an ‘oops’ with is the tram network. I’m just not very sure how close to make the lines and stations in a pedestrianized area like Oniko’s. I plan to make the population of the whole city (the grey area) 3.5-5million, but that will take a long time. Anyway, thank you for listening to my rambling. Any feedback would be appreciated!

For some reason, the territory map and list show Fressland as “taken” by me or whatever it’s called, but on the border way, it shows as “ogf:owner = admin” and “ogf:status = free”. Is it available or “taken”?

Thanks

Katav

Hey guys! I’m in the midst of making up my country’s wiki. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on what program to use to make my national flag. Also, what do you think about my country’s storyline thus far?

Thanks!