Under the project name “Operation Chireiden”, I’m currently rescaling and reconstructing the whole of Fressland’s capital city, Konkordia. Expect major mapping changes to Downtown Konkordia within the next few weeks.

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Is there an actual way to map poorer communities in a way that gets that idea across? I don’t mean third world country poor, just like slightly more impoverished neighborhoods, maybe kind of American style poorer neighborhoods. Is there a distinct look these types of neighborhoods have on the map? So far the main thing I’ve done is put some mostly abandoned strip malls and a couple discount supermarkets and businesses like hair salons, laundromats, and non-chain fast food type places. Most of Quentinsburgh is meant to be pretty well off (upper lower class to upper middle class), but there are one or two poorer areas that I don’t quite know how to map.

Up until today I had labeled my channels based on the American-style calling letters of KXXX and WXXX. However, I remember we had discussed this briefly in the User Diaries a long time ago, and someone pointed out the fact that they should vary from country to country. At the time I had wanted to retain my system so I wouldn’t have to change all my logos and wiki pages, but upon remembering this, I went ahead and changed all the Freedemian stations to the system of FXXX (F for Freedemia). For example, WQTN 13 is now FQTN 13.

Community question.

I’ve been on and about thinking how I could improve my country, Drabantia, to be more realistic, especially in terms of geography and climate.

First of all, I’m still sort of confused as to what the climate could actually be. The hypothetical maps on the Talk:World climate page didn’t really help: one says steppe, the other says Winnipeg. So I settled for somewhere in between for now. And then it kind of hit me: The lake surrounding my country has no output. There has to be saltwater.

Or does it? The lake, which lies on the same latitude as Edmonton, Copenhagen or Moscow, probably doesn’t dry up as much as the Caspian Sea does, for example. Meaning that with no output, the water level would just keep on rising and the salinity would remain the same.

Even if the area was dry, I still don’t think the temperature and other aspects of the climate allow the lake to have no output at all. There’s large rivers: Bráh and Lorava, draining all Litvania; Borava, draining 80% of Drabantia; Banuj, draining the remaining 20% + some of Escadia and possibly UL100h too; and finally Helm and Gilson.

TL;DR So, my bold proposal: Is it possible to connect the lake to the Great Rift Sound? I imagine it similar to the Saint Lawrence River connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.

There’s many pros:

• There’s wetlands (that until recently were lakes) in Suria, where the river would flow- no radical changes required.

• Several proposals on the OGF:Plate tectonics page see the area as a mid-continental rift.

• The benefits for the countries around the lake would be immense. In addition to opening them to intl. shipping lines, it would make for a better connection with the rest of Uletha and more importance.

So, what does everyone (namely the admin team) think? I know edits and changes in grey territories are usually frowned upon, but I feel like this is a really important issue.

The lake as it is now

How do I make perfectly orthogonal, regular grids in JOSM? I’ve tried various things and am struggling to figure it out so far.

Is there a Photobucket type site where we can upload photos and use them in OFF? I’ve probably taken some 1,000 photos of I-17 & Sedona, Arizona. Not to mention the thousands I have taken around N.Y. I figure someone could use them and there’s no copyright issues. Meteor Crater & Grand Canyon tomorrow so my OFF edits will probably have a desert theme for a while when I come back on.

Well, it’s been a long time, OpenGeoFiction, since I was last here. I’ve decided to split off the northern half of my northernmost territory into a new country: “Norkolnia”… Mainly because I never edit there. It has no OGF-specific tags (the internal OGF code, the actual name that OGF picks up, those things) at the moment, just the boundaries and the relation.

“Kurzoviya”/Katav

I feel I’ve ground to a halt with Utterland. I know full well that I can do a heck of a lot more with the territory, but my inspiration has temporarily dried up.

I’ve been focusing on getting the road and rail networks sorted, but apart from places like Welle, Solsburg and Galmosen, not put a lot of detail into towns and cities (yet). I do realise that this is a long-term project (years), but would really appreciate some constructive input, hints and suggestions on how to go on from here. I’m not much into the Wiki thing; I want to focus on the mapping.

Hey all,

I have created the Trans-Asperic Union, or TAU for short. Send me a message if you want to join!

Just giving everyone a quick heads up that my nominatim-service available under http://nominatim.opengeofiction.net:8080/ will be down for maintenance tomorrow from about 10:00 CEST (GMT +2) to at least 14:00.

Other affected services:

• OGF-Main Page: Search will not function
• Names in the routing will not be searchable, you have to use the right-click features to add locations or drag the markers around
• Reverse geocoding for diary entries
• Every other service that uses the nominatim-service provided by me, if I forgot something just leave a comment below.

Technical Background: After the OGF-Update to a new version last month the replication-update process was not working properly on my side anymore so i’ll have to set the service up from scratch again.

Kind Regards

Martin

Update: Downtime for at least three (3) more hours due to database rebuild taking longer than expected

Update 2: Nominatim is up and running again, but the Database is still about a month behind in processing, so stay tuned…

There’s landflooding in Archanta. The admins might take a look on the landflooding.

I just want to run Dunwic’s population estimates past people and see if they agree. I think the city is comparable in density and size to Dusseldorf, if you look at the OSM vs OGF comparison it seems quite reaosnable

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/56.3433/19.2463 osm.org/#map=13/51.2355/6.7861

I have yet to map all of the outlying towns and suburbs of Dunwic, there will be more and then it will be even more comparable. The population of the city of Dusseldorf (which does covers an area roughly similar to urban Dunwic) is 612,000. Is this a realistic number?

In that case I think it’d probably give the whole country a population of around 1,000,000 which is what I’ve always invisaged. Essentially it could be argued that Myrcia is so small that the whole island is the ‘Dunwic metro area’. It is only 1h40 by train to the farthest city on the island.

Anyway, thoughts welcome as always.

Greetings from Zoologischer Garten Bhf Berlin!

Adam

I am not sure who caused this (I most likely did not otherwise JOSM will tell me), or is this real, but i think Archanta is flooded again.

http://api.opengeofiction.net/#map=9/-9.4748/161.5677

All New immigrants are brought to Arlington for Passports, Citizenship papers, and converting drivers licenses to Planorian.

In order to be a citizen in my country you would have to join https://discord.gg/ZsV9n7y Then I have to do background checks, and look in your luggage. If you’re visiting you just say so and you will be a tourist Immigrants will be given access to Arlington Immigration centre text channel for citizenship papers.

can someone help me with administrative boundaries please? thanks!

I have drawn and linked up several roads in northern Vinnmark, particularly around Hanviller, Vinn, Köln and Kongshavn. This means that it is now possible to get “directions” to those places. I have also cleaned up some of the motorways and primary road system around Berles and the aforementioned towns.

Hi everyone!

I keep going on with my Welstand-Westrijk rebuilt. Everybody is responding so well to my changes even if I’m focusing on the capital Kirchenburg right now, so THANKS SO MUCH everybody.

The Kirchenburg 2020 Geolympiad bid is starting working. I know Kirchenburg is still not finished, but i like it to be so detailed, or at last half detailed for the begining.

As i told sometimes before, one of the things i love the most of OGF is the opportunity to design stuff. And international events are like candy for me. That’s why I apply to the Geolympiad, and that’s why i was asking days ago about what hapened to Geovision Song Festival (I’d love to host an event like that) That’s why i have the only international art fair in OGF, even if no one was so interested, and that’s why i have the main haute couture company (I’d love to prepare a Fashion Week too) So, if any of you are interested in create something like this, or have any opinion about it…just tell me.

While creating the new Kirchenburg and deleting the old one, I’ve lost a lot of embassies placed in the city. At this moment there are only a few from neighbour countries (Vinnmark, Shilesia and Koban). So I’m interested in knowing who is interested in having an embassy at Kirchenburg.

Since the area changed by the Hetzer Firth, Welstand-Westrijk started to being part of the Vinnic Economic Comunity. Has anyone talked about the idea of build the official buildings in the same city? Or would be possible to give each city an official building? If so, Kirchenburg would be a perfect place for it :P haha

I remind to all the monarchies around, Welstand-Westrijk is a monarchy too. Welstand-Westrijk history is just a sketch by now, but i’d love to write some common history between other countries and Welsrijk.

Taking the chance, now that im talking about a lot of stuff, want to say that I’m in love with Myrcia hahah.

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How are you folks doing? My redoing of Pasalia’s Capital is continuing. Your nation is invited to build its embassy here: http://opengeofiction.net/edit#map=16/-46.8080/68.9973 Happy Mapping everyone

Yes I know the name of the city is in no way original. Can someone advise the population estimate of the city? With this city I am looking at how things were when motorways were being designed and constructed.