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Hello guys!
I just wanted to annouce that Loravia International Airport is open for many more intercontinental flights! Make sure to let me know if you want your airline(s) to fly there.
Also, check this out: New section in litvanka article
I have created a clinical center in Bend. http://www.opengeofiction.net/#map=17/38.82588/98.50099
Opinions and constructive criticism are, obviously, welcome. My further plans with Bend is to develop Schugel suburb with some sort of residential projects divided in some sort of blocks or sections divided by boulevards. Any ideas/opinions on that?
Many times before, I and other mappers have observed the seemingly excessive popularity of motorways in our world. People seem to like to build them, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not always terribly realistic (who’s paying for all these motorways?), and I have come to realize that drawing motorways ‘‘first’’, as a kind of “skeleton” for one’s territory, is a fundamentally backwards approach to geofiction - in real life, motorways come closer to ‘‘last’’ than ‘‘first’’ - if they come at all.
So I had this idea. There are some major cities in the world that simply don’t have motorways. I’m not talking about poor cities, either.
One favorite personal example is Winnipeg, in Canada (osm.org/#map=12/49.8837/-97.1729) - a city which I visited frequently during a certain period of my life, although I’ve never lived there.
The city has at least 500,000 residents, but the only motorway is the ring-road, and even that is not fully limited-access for much of its length. There is not single kilometer of limited access highway within that ring road.
Looking at the map, Warsaw, Poland (osm.org/#map=12/52.2254/20.9659) is another interesting example. There appear to be several motorway “approaches” to the city (maybe only one?), but nothing to the center.
Vancouver, Canada (osm.org/#map=12/49.2475/-123.1645) also lacks any kind of motorway access to the core city, although they abound in the suburbs.
And Edinburgh, Scotland (osm.org/#map=12/55.9512/-3.2394), seems to well-developed suburban motorways, but nothing that enters the city proper.
Hello mappers! I have been working on a possible map of tectonic plates in OGF. I would like to know your opinion about it. There are many possibilities for the location of the tectonic plates and the direction of the displacement of these influences the existence of rifts and mountains, as is the case of the central mountain range in Uletha and the high mountains of the north of Castilea Archantea, in the Center of Archanta Major. Espero que os guste. Poco a poco iremos perfeccionando el maravilloso mundo de OGF. Happy mapping!
There’s a website in the Czech Rep, where you can watch what’s happening at the Prague Central and Ústí nad Orlicí stations. The videos are given commentary by the announcement lady with an incredibly tranquilizing voice, as recorded from the station building. I find this really interesting (also it’s snowing so the stations look pretty), so I just wanted to share.
Do you know any other cool webcams? Feel free to share!
Enjoy life and happy mapping! George
Get your jackets and umbrellas because Uletha is flooded!
Kingsbury has been the featured map over the last fortnight, an honour I was delighted to receive.
That said, it can always be better, and so I’ve spent much of the last few days working on adding more details. From buildings, offices, shops, and clubs; the city now looks more filled-in and alive. But i’ve also been working on adding those small things that add reality to a map, and are a reality of city life, such as payphones, pillar boxes, bus stops, and bins. It’s fiddly work, but definitely worth the effort.
My next challenge to resume adding the streets in the various outer suburbs of the city. Something i’m not looking forward to, since getting curvy suburban streets to look accurate has been beyond me so far
My recent obsession in OGF seems to be air travel. I mean it. I have created 5 airlines that are based in Litvania already, with barely enough mapping to support that. I need your advice. What should i do? I want to help the OGF world develop its aviation industry, for more airports, more developed and structured Callsigns, Airport Codes.
Spent all day in the field today. The team caught a terrible cold, and i had to do most of the work for the mission. Hiked up the West Peak aswell, and admired the blizzard for about 30 seconds, before eventually walking back down the slope in a hurry, to get to the warm comfort of the dorms.
The research for today was complete, but was really messy and unorganized. Unfortunately, Mr. Špihlerov will not accept that as an excuse. We are boarding a Cosmos(Litvanka’s ultra long haul aircraft) MIC-L300 for Loravia via Latina in 2 days. Apparently its already on its way.
Anyway, ill write tomorrow, when the sun will set at 15:00PM.
Nashledanou Dennikou
A new town Nahoniakburg is being built on the site of what used to be Natesville in Rhododactylia (which appears to have disappeared in a cloud of white smoke). I have rebuilt a couple of roads and added a new town POI node. Rather than do the rebuilding myself, I’d like to see two or three people collaborate to build it. Remember, don’t use real world trademarks/company names. If you don’t know what to name something, fill in the other tags (add a cuisine for fast food/restaurants) and let me know what needs naming.
Can people stop editing Natesville? It’s my city, thank you for understanding.
Hello to all fellow mappers and the admins, This is a Chinese New Year Message from the mapper of zhenkang. I wish all of you a happy Lunar New Year.
I hoped that for the following year, we will collaborate more and better to create a more realistic world rather than have some countries being so isolated that they had seemingly no relations with the outside OGF world (possibly they did not have time to write about foreign relations).
Secondly, hopefully mappers will not just spend too much time on mapping, but have an equal balance to write short yet explanatory articles about their wonderful countries. I wish that there will not be just multiple sub-standard articles, but rather one or two coherent articles. Also, they can also request others to help develop their articles, based on what they wanted written on the article. This is another way I believed that is another way of collaborating.
Last thing is to clear up a little misunderstanding of Babelic People. I doubt the Babelic people come from Commonia or either West Commonia (maybe I would write an article about the people and their customs in the future), but came from somewhere I don’t really know, maybe from one of those unmapped continents. As Luciano told me, ‘I would like to just add a very large caveat to this discussion: it is not clear or established that the home of “chinese” (Babelic) culture in OGF world is Commonia. I personally don’t like the idea. I’d rather see some true “China” created someday, somewhere - maybe in the Western Continents. In fact, when I created Babelic, it was not meant to be Chinese, but rather a “contact culture” like the Vietnamese, Japanese or Koreans, who used the Chinese Characters for writing, but which was linguistically distinct. I have always called Chinese in OGF “Sinian”. I’m happy to let go of this concept, but just so you have some alternate perspective.’ I should thank Luciano for giving the green light to take over the wiki work on the Babelic language.
I would like to thank all the participants of the 2016 Sez-Mareb Rally that took place during the last week of December in Neo Delta! More than 20 countries participated and I chose the winners based on the amount of content on racing that each country has produced and also the maturity of the countries, i.e., countries with more details mapped.
It was not an easy choice, so I picked up some other nice countries to be winners of one of the stages of the rally. If your country did not win the rally nor one of the stage, do not worry, you can choose among any of the past edition of the rally to be the winner (feel free to edit the past editions here).
The winners are listed below, see more details on the wiki page.
Today is the eve of Lunar Chinese New Year. For the occasion I has set up a franchise for delectable chinese food called Haochi Fandien. Set up restaurants in your countries for the Babelicans who are staying in your country.
Have a blessed lunar new year. 恭喜恭喜！ Zhenkang
How do I figure out how to find the square kilometers and meters of my country Kanea http://opengeofiction.net/#map=8/40.612/131.001
Hey, everyone. As you all may remember, I’m the manager of a collaborative country called Woolonia in Archanta. Woolonia is a purple country (managed but collaborative), and is a modern country with a sheep-centered society. It’s largely split between urban modern cities and smaller more traditional herding towns and sheep pastures in rural areas. The wool and sheep product (including food) industries are the staples of the country. Woolonia developed in an interestingly unique way- It remained very sheep centered, but the cities urbanized and developed around it.
Having dedicated more time and concentration to working on my own nation of Freedemia, I haven’t really had a chance to do much work on Woolonia. On top of that, I haven’t been able to figure out where to start. I’m looking for more people interested in helping out. For more information, see the three links below:
OGF:Woolonia Collaboration Talk Page
Ideas, volunteers, and people interested in taking on a side project of helping with it are welcome. Please respond in the comments if you’d like to know more. I’m not looking for a bunch of new motorways-I think the current motorway system is already pushing it. But small towns, a few select new cities where city markers are on the map (Centerport, Shearville, Pastureville), and rural areas are welcome. Improvements of Woolport and New Wooley are also greatly welcomed.
*To be clear, Maydien is property of user Belphenia Project. Please don’t mess with that area, it is not free to edit. Also, Belphenia Project has already gotten a good start on Slauson City, but the area listed as “Shearville” could still use a lot of work (it was originally just a copy of LA and frankly most just needs deletion and replacement). If you do take on this project, please try not to mess with what has already been done in the Slauson City area. :)
Since there is a page for List of country names in various languages, there should be another page for List of continents names in various languages.
Translate these continents to your country’s language! (only showing continents that have been mapped)
I’ve been working on Plowford since October now, and I am very pleased with my mapping. Absolutely everything street-level is mapped out (or will be*) mapped out.
*Postboxes, trees, bus shelters etc will come when/if I finish the town
Because of the enormity of this task at hand, does anyone have anything to say about improvements I can make? This is basically the last stage where I can go back and correct all of my work, as the more I map, the more difficult it gets. At later stages, I will only be able to rectify small areas, as any changes will have to be implemented to the entire city.
Rural-urban fringe (You may need to zoom in)
Contamination Zone The site of a major chemical spill in 1998. Due to the poor response from the Glastian authorities, this area has been permanently cordoned off and is now under Glastian military observation.
I tend to do my mapping with some historical context-but not with larger and more obvious features such as castles or manors. The historical context is a lot more physical and infrastructure-related than that. See if you can spot anything!
Happy mapping!
Yuanls
Anyone interested in adding companies in Mariana? Looking for a bank, fuel filling station.oil company and other retail and such. Would liek to do the same viceversa if anyone’s interested.
Hi everyone
As the title suggests, I’ve been working a lot on the railway system in my city of Igwepir. Some things (main station, old main station, yard, underground platforms) have yet to be finished, but I’d like to hear your opinions, and whether y’all think I’m on the right way. If I’m doing something wrong, be sure to let me know.
Regards
Edit: the Nortkap line is not supposed to end there
This morning, I woke up to Uletha being flooded. Can somebody please fix it?
Thanks.
