Hey, folks! This is a question more for the admin team, but I’m just curious if somebody else had this habit. Some months ago there was a feature at the bottom of all wiki pages that showed the number of views that each page had since its creation. Although it doesn’t seem to be the most useful information, I always checked those numbers in the pages I created for one main reason: to see if the wiki pages I created were interesting for other people. I could easily figure out the pages people liked the most by the amount of views they had and I used that info as some feedback to my wiki editing (although I know the number of views should not be the sole aspect of a good wiki page).

Recently, though, this information has disappeared from the pages. I have no idea why, so that’s my question for the admin team!

Thank you and happy mapping!

I came to the conclusion it’s not the best name for Slavic language family, because it doesn’t sound very Slavic and it’s tough to pronounce.

In Czech (Drabantian), it doesn’t even follow the basic rules of spelling:

• s is followed by y only in certain words with a common root.
• r is a hard consonant, which means it should always be followed by y.
• No double l’s.
• G’s are very sparse.
• I could settle for Sirylankan, but that sounds even worse. (I associate it with baby care items for some reason.)

So, I played around with words a little and I have three possible substitutions:

• Slane (Slanic) (Drab.: Slán; the root slan means something salty.)
• Sleve/Leve (Slevic/Levic) (Drab.: Levan; the root lev means ease or left (direction) in this case, I’m listing both options because Slevan would mean ‘discount man’ in Drabantian.)
• Lave (Lavic) (Drab.: Lavan; the root lev would mean lion in this case.)

So, vote for your favorites! I like Leve/Levic the best.

Also, please note I definitely do not want to force my opinions on anyone and doing this is completely optional.

Hello,

For the last few weeks, I have been facing some issues regarding the climate of my country Guai. The main question is not necessarily about writing an article or an article section about it but more about adapting the landscape to the climate (rivers’ width, land cover, agriculture, etc.).

I have drawn the following sketch as a proposition for Antarephia climate with air and and ocean currents. I’ve tried to bear in mind that we are looking at the southern hemisphere but that Hesperic Ocean is closed by Kartumia to the west, meaning we won’t have an Antarctic Circumpolar Current as strong as we have on Earth. Consequently, Hesperic Ocean is likely to behave like Northern Atlantic Ocean but “reversed”: air and water go east and south instead of east and north. Western Antarephia would look more like Western Europe and Morocco than to Chile.

Anyway, it’s not written in stone and I’d like to know whether it makes sense to you?

Hello everybody,

why are there so little highway=rest_area and highway=services in OGF? The people have to travel vast distances (Especially truck drivers) and yet they don’t have a good place to relax for a bit or go to the toilet…

See also:

• osm.wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservices
• osm.wiki/Tag:highway%3Drest_area

My area at Singkangia is flooded. Sigh..

Hello all! It’s been a month since I’ve updated you all on where Tierajas-Verdes is, and there has been a lot of development from last update. I can’t much remember how much was done last month since there has been so much work, so I’m going to update you on everything I am sure you haven’t been updated on.

To start, following on from the responses last month on the delta of the Changori River, I got JOSM which I have been using since, and have remodeled the delta to something I feel is more realistic to what I wanted.

I’ve also changed the peninsula a small amount so it’s shorter. And the rivers of the country have been thinned…and will probably end up even thinner as I work through. A general over-view of my nation can be found below. Also to note, I have been in contact with georgecg and Oxalia about developing the Cathar Mountain range, mentioned only a few times on the wiki when talking about the Liberan Peninsula. I’ve only done the rough-massing so far.

A General Overview of Tierajas-Verdes showing changes in the Delta, Bay, Peninsula and Rivers

Moving onto Parirakbe, it is almost coming to completion in the actual area of the city, moving into the country-side and farm-land. The Metropolitan Area is still far from done, including Bhunda, Chakhat and Magara, as well as a lot of country-side.

The Overview of Parirakbe, close to completion

I’m experimenting with showing off densely packed blocks much like found in Bangladesh and India. These packed blocks would task far too much for myself and for OGF I do feel, so I’m only showing separate buildings along the main highways, while everything else that is too complicated to map are one massive blob of building. What you think of the idea?

The “High Density Block” Filling Project

… See full entry

Just a week or more to Chinese New Year, or rather Babelic’s new year!

I thought of creating a mapping challenge for this festive season: Create a Babelic town (chinatowns) where the Babelic-speaking people in your country can interact.

It must include: *Chinese/ Babelic Restaurants *Chinese temples eg Buddhist, Taoist etc. *Some plazas and shopping malls to serve the Babelic people. Happy mapping and have a blessed new year.

I have an idea:

What about an International Ulethan Motorway network?

This would basically work like the real world E-** road network, and would span the entire continent of Uletha. I believe this would fix the messes that people maoe when mapping highways, and would certainly improve international border crossing.

My ideas are:

-The roads would be numbered from U/I/M-1

-They wouldnt have to be newly built roads, but rather a layer on a layer.(i.e we would simp,y take the nice motorways that people build and add an international number to them)

-They would start somewhere in Pretany, Kalm or possibly the countries in western Uletha, and would slowly spider outwards into the northern and eastern regions.

There’s been a lot of discussion about forums and chat rooms. A lot. I have created an OGF forum to allow for a more organised method of discussion about our OGF work.

I have not created an off-topic forum, I might do in the future but after the last few days it seems best to concentrate things on mapping, cities that inspire our mapping and the wiki.

Take a look, register and we’ll see how things go.

http://opengeofiction.forum2.net/

So, I’ve created a university for the city of Jo’ae. It is the largest university within the Gagium Republic and it attracts students from across the world, having high standards. It can be found here: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/-31.5109/45.2412

Everyone is upset about Discord. I think it’s great to see the community engaged and discussing things, but we need to be adults. No ad hominem attacks, please - especially in diary entry titles.

All discussion about Discord will be restricted to this diary entry. New diary entries on the topic will be shut down. I will post a transcript of two other diary entries (now removed) as first comments, below.

Let’s try to respect each other. Happy mapping.

Hey everyone, has anyone ever made a map showing our worlds climate zones? Would be helpful to know exactly where its warm, cold, moderate etc. Example: My territory says it has a cold cimate, but compared to where it would be located on the real earth it would be in southern Brasil, somewhere around Curitiba or Sao Paulo, to be more precise. So the climate needs to be corrected in some places I would say. What do you think?

Is there anything thats going to happen this year on OGF?

Last year for example was the Quentinsburgh 2016 Geolympiad.

Dear other fellow OGF users, After having thought about this I realised that my country Pasalia and furthermore its capital city Pasaliapolis are absolutely horrible rubbish. Everytime I map something there it makes it look bad somewhere else. ,,Why dont you just start over again?’’ Do I seem like person who wants to waste his time deleting endless amounts of horrendous s….? No… So: Pasalia will hereby be declared free and open to other users. I am going to look around for some collab country and map some detailed! things there. Seems like I suck at creating realistic cities from scratch. The first step to improvement is realising you screwed up! Therefore… well… thats all I wanted to have said basically. Note I am not completly abandoning it! I will update the wiki maybe and might even map some stuff or not.

Sincerly and fed up, Kingfries

For help finding destinations for your international airport or airline:

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Where_to_fly

Anyone who has a city with a major airport is encouraged to add it to the ‘destinations map’ on this wiki page, so that people seeking destinations can find it.

For brief intro, name discussion, mapping guidelines, and more, see http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Southern_Islands

Map link: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=5/-69.334/0.615

Full size image: http://i.imgur.com/jQP2kLJ.png

Last month, while trying to gauge the prevalence of different languages in the OGF community, I looked into the user signup data and made a chart of the language preferences specified during the account creation process. This chart represents around 380 out of 3350 accounts (those with under 30 edits were excluded). It’s not a perfect snapshot of the community — many people specified multiple languages, for instance, so they are counted multiple times — but I think it’s still pretty interesting. A chart including all 3350 accounts is here, but bear in mind most of those accounts never even made any edits.

For the Construction of 1) A University Hospital which will include a vast majority of departments a hospital can offer, laid out as a series of highrise- buildings, greenery between, parking garages, access roads for emergency vehicles aswell as a helicopter landing site.

2)A University, Including most faculties, auditoriums, parking spaces, greenery and everything else a large university needs that can be mapped.

3) A botanic garden next to the university.

mappers are seeked. Hard Work with no payment :P

If anyone is interested leave a comment. Kingfries

Kanea is now a nation where UL015 g was west of Palaseskia! :D Also how do I make a provincial border?

Hello! The flag-carrying airline of Tierajas-Verdes is ready to be revealed to the world, if anybody would like flights to and from my country with the airline, just comment! Jatiya Eyaraoyeja Verdese, JEV

On a separate note, Parirakbe has a functionally mapped airport that I’d like to populate with some airlines now too, flying in and out. Parirakbe International Airport