Hello! I am PColumbus73, I found out about OGF through AARoads. I have founded Duranth, Grainger and New Charleston.

Some of my notes:

I’ve viewed Grainger and the southeastern side of Duranth as industrial areas (due to the Grainger Power Plant. Grainger would be more of a low-income, working class area.

New Charleston is intended to be a vacation/tourist spot.

With the Grainger Power Plant, I’ve drawn power lines connecting Marshall and Kuhn-Labrie. I’ll try to add new power lines as nearby cities get bigger.

I know it’s just a rendering error, but it’s pretty irritating after a while.

Hello all, First of all I want to welcome BalpheriaProject to OGF. Anyway, I want your all’s help with my country Drevet. It’s going fine so far, but I just need people to expand on it. I’ve noticed already that PColumbus73 has been making edits so far, and I want to thank him. And newbies, if you need a country to edit, you can work in mine! Thanks, CT21

Hello, and I would like to introduce myself to you. I am BelpheniaProject.

I’ve been here for 4 days now and getting used to it. I came across Opengeofiction when I was surfing the web on AAroads.com and found this site. I’m also interested in creating my own fictional cities and maps at Opengeofiction.

At this time, I’m making cities in countries AR900 (someone named it Commonia but when I looked at the overview map, that country is still marked as blue) and AR901 (marked blue) at this time until I wait to get a chance to claim a country in the future.

I went through the tutorial already and still learning to create maps using this website as I make progress.

Have a great day!

Holy crap. I was working on my town, and I noticed that part of my town a good way away from the lake was water-colored. I thought it was just a bug, so I went to view mode…

…and everything was flooded.

Not just on my peninsula, but on the main continent, on the other continent… basically EVERYWHERE. Does anyone know why this happened?

One of the most annoying issues I encounter in creating cities is that there is no easy way to connect ways at intersections where they overlap with a node. I am using JOSM. I am required to go back and connect these ways with nodes manually one at a time. a very painstaking and extremely time consuming process that can take hours when I would much rather be expanding my city or coming up with street names, buildings and more. I have tried to use the Grid building option in JOSM but it does not work as I would like it to. It does not create a regualr grid of connected nodes that can easily be converted to streets. Nor is there a way though the validation process or any other means I have been able to find where it is possible to connect a whole series of nodes. Has anyone found a way to connect the nodes intheir downtown grids without having to individually connect each intersection.

Its very frustrating

So. A few minutes ago, I tried to refine my coastline south of one of the areas that I have developed in my country:

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New users can now choose their territory after one week of membership. Based on my experiences so far, I’ve come to the conclusion that one week is probably enough.

~ Thilo

No wounder about the catpaw. The same photo you can see in the german wikipedia under “Hauskatze” (house cat) [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauskatze#mediaviewer/File:Catpaw.jpg] as example and it is my tom-cat “Ziggie” - born in Krete / Greece and now 7 years old. Has an own webside [http://www.ziggie.de] , which cost me 65 €cent a month ;-)

I have decided to change my username, because it creates some confusion to have my username be the same as one of my countries (Ardisphere). I have contacted admin about changing on the wiki, too. I am now known as Luciano.

Sorry for confusing anyone, and thank you for your patience and thank you to all (especially admins Thilo and Histor) for all their work building this fun site and community.

~ Luciano AKA Ardisphere

It seems there are some new Islands known as “”"”XIAMO”””” that have mysteriously appeared on the globe but are not anywhere on the overview map. Are these part of the large COMMONIA territory or are they a new country founded by another OGF user.

Additionally it seems that there is a new country ‘’’’’'’KHATULISTIWA’’’’’’’ that was carved out of the COMMONIA territory as well. This will probably also need to be updated on the overview map as well.

As far as adding land areas. What is the overall policy on doing this in OGF.. I was under the assumption that we could modify our coastlines (within reason) and that to modify boundaries with neighoring country areas that we need to collaborate with our neighbor. If we want new territory that we should email and apply to have it assigned to us. But as far as creating new terriroty out of the sea without approval, I assumed this was not allowed since the land masses have been set in place. Do new land masses need to go through a moderator approval before they can be done?

Hi I’m new here. Could someone please give me a the way to form a country in browser, because I am still confused about the wiki’s directions, and I don’t want anyone to mess up the city er…interchange I created :) . Thanks!

Hi everybody. I opened up my country, Drevet (pronounced Druh-VAY or Drih-VAY), to be edited by anyone and everyone. I’ve started some roads and cities and whatnots in it, including Marshall, Burke, and Griffin. You all are welcome to expand on Drevet, but please, PLEASE keep in mind these guidelines.

1. Try to be consistent. E.g. Don’t take SR (Secondary Route) 63, or Ruby Road, and turn it into SR 1337, ‘I am Awesome and Better than all o yalls Blvd’ or whatever.
2. Don’t vandalize. Nuff said.
3. Me being the owner of Drevet, I can still make edits to the country AND rollback changes. I can and will have the final say.
4. Use common sense.
5. Have fun with this. Most important rule of all.

Thanks a bunch, ~Logan

Just now I went to the OGF site to view the results of some edits I did last night - and found the entire continent of Archanta flooded! Oh no!

I don’t see how I could have done this, since I didn’t edit the coastline at all. Yet I have to consider the possibility that I am somehow responsible. The reason I think that is that in the server version of the map, the entire coastline of my country, Orlenna is missing, while neighboring countries still have their coastlines.

However, I have no idea how that could have happened. I opened my local copy of the area in JOSM, which should be in sync with what I uploaded last night, and the coastline is still there.

On the other hand, the coastline of Commonia is also gone, so maybe someone’s editing in that region caused the problem?

Anyway, I’m sorry if I did this, and will be happy to help repair the damage (though I don’t yet know how).

PS: Shouldn’t Ingerish be one of the language options for this forum? ;-)

Update: actually, I guess the entire coastline of Archanta is gone. When I said the neighboring countries still have their coastlines, I was actually seeing the ocean-facing borders; I’ve defined a border extending beyond my coastline, while my immediate neighbors have not.

I’ve noticed the decent amount of OGF users whose first language is not English and have mentioned it. As English is my first language, I will gladly help anyone who needs correcting on their wiki pages, as Google Translate really doesn’t cut it in terms of quality. As the only other language I speak is French, I won’t be able to directly translate much for you, but if you are using Google Translate, or if you aren’t too confident with your English skills and want some mistakes corrected, feel free to send me a message!

Today, I added many details west of the city centre of Tarott (capital of the Republic of Kalm). Actually, I copied the whole city of Tarott from a vector file - and now I have to correct many things. E.g., in the vector file the ends of the streets were not connected as they have to be in OGF. And there was no possibility to add the labels automatically, as they were drawn as separate objects in the original file. Wow, that’s a hard work, adding al the labels, connecting the endpoints and so on. But step by step, the map will be completed.

Hm, thought I was done for the night, but apparently not.

I was just wondering: I would like to have shipping lines running from Orlenna to several other places, e.g. Khaiwoon, Villa Constitución, Phoenix, Elegantia … do I need to ask permission of the owners of those places to enter their harbors, or should I just go ahead and do it?

Well, I suppose I should introduce myself. I’ve been here about a month, but have been pretty quiet up to now.

I’ve been a map geek all my life, but for some reason have never really done anything with online mapping before. But here I am, and I’m greatly enjoying this little adventure.

I have established the country of Orlenna, at the western end of the southern part of Archanta continent. Come visit - the weather’s nice! Be sure to visit the legendary Citadel of Samman Wey (uh, well, I haven’t actually mapped that yet, but it will be there soon - and perhaps discerning individuals will be able to guess where it is supposed to be), and try some Brandeia wine - it’s the world’s finest (in our humble opinion ;-) )

By the way, it has occurred to me that it might be a good idea to have an OpenGeofiction tutorial. I know there is extensive documentation on the OpenStreetMap site, but I think that even though we use the same tools, there are some fundamental differences in the process: in particular, I don’t think people working on OSM do very much drawing, and certainly not over long distances - and the easy-to-use web-based editors reflect that. Whereas here we are creating whole cities and countries from scratch, and it’s really pretty awful trying to draw, say, a 500-mile railroad in iD or even Potlatch. So I think among other things, newcomers to OGF should be encouraged to learn JOSM as soon as possible, and a tutorial would help with that. I might be able to write such a document, though I don’t have very much free time just now.

Last but not least, I’m attempting to include the Orlendi flag below … I don’t have wiki access yet, so I put it on Imgur. However, it’s not showing up in the preview, so if you can’t see it, go to Orlendi flag image. Should we be able to include inline images? The Markdown mini-reference on this pages suggests it is possible.

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So many hours, days, more than a week, creating my capital Itacolomi with iD editor in browser

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/9.9721/96.3031

Then, I downloaded JOSM, and… Itacolomi is all out-of-scale!!!!

In last days, I was creating the third major city of my country, Paranabi http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/10.5590/96.3889

and this city is been in a “decent scale”…

Maybe, I will need to delete and rework totally my capital… it`s annoying!

The Gobras City Zoo is open. I have no idea what animals live in the OpenGeofiction world so feel free to add exhibits and such, to the zoo. Each continent has it’s own separate section.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/20.6856/86.7276

Does anyone know how to make the trams look like this example, like the Skyfari in the San Diego Zoo?

osm.org/#map=17/32.73531/-117.15096