Hello everyone!

This week the format for the Weekly Word changes, because of a discussion after previous week’s word. With the new format, everyone can enter a submission until Saturday 18:00 UTC. Than the winner will be announced by me on 20:00 UTC. Than the winner recieves the right to post the new Weekly Word challenge next Monday. The winner will also choose the new winner for that week and that person may announce the new Weekly Word.

So, this will probably be my last Weekly Word for a time. It is:

MILITARY

Post your creations in the comments and maybe you will win the right to announce next week’s Word!

Niels

I’m at a loss as to what got messed up this time. Can someone look into it?

There is just too much space for one person to add residential zoning to. I’m talking a lot of space. so here is the jist, Anyone in the Commonia Area that is editing near New Commonia in the Upper Thoraqua/ Lower Thoraqua area and has nothing to edit … well I got something for you. I am creating a town “Freetabourgh” at the end of the C12 corridor right after The I-85 exit. This town consists of alot of city space for houses, and other city services. Please feel free to add anything you want, anywhere you want, but please do not cross the border. I am asking this because I am about to go on a holiday to West Virginia, and I will need as much help as possible. I do not want to have to completely do the whole thing a couple days behind where the town should be done… Thank you in advance! P.S NOTHING INNAPORPIATE

Uh oh

I just don’t know what it is, but I suck at sizing stuff, properly. When I look at this area, it just feels off. I tried several methods described here, but I just feel lost.

So, if someone could show me how they would resize it to something more… realistic? That would be awesome and I’d appreciate it.

I am also thinking about opening this nation up to others aswell, so we can map a Dutch/Germanic/Anglo nation together?

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=19/-46.68215/65.50278 I tried my best to make it like the Morningside Avenue in toronto

Perkins Point, a small plot of land with unusually-sized houses, all surrounded by a seawall that even continues onto the land! It has a futuristic type of airport with circular runways, actually researched by the BBC. It is followed by the Greater Perkins Point Area (GPPA) that hosts an [OK] industrial sector by CorpalBrandon and an unfinished Suburbian community. It has a canal for ships and three separate forests (Beatland, Abedies, Point Forests), one with campgrounds. The city is situated near the Drew River Delta NR, a beautiful area, and there is easy access there through Galvin Rd. The city is easily accessible through the N5, Coastal Rd., and Galvin Rd. There are some security bases on the outer islands to ‘Protect’ the area.

*Asking Price: Absolutely nothing. *Host Nation: Gobrassanya. *Nearest City: Bayvue. *Land Worth: IDK. #Feel Free To Edit It!

Have a nice day.

Lately I tried to re-edit the boundary between Cameron and Ghranata states in Unesia.

It had been a year since I first made the boundaries, so I re-read the tutorial on Administrative Boundaries. It seemed pretty straightforward, yet after several attempts, the [boundary] ( http://opengeofiction.net/way/7888313) didn’t [render] ( http://opengeofiction.net/#map=8/-30.761/166.179).

Another weird thing is that the boundary showed up in JOSM, but not iD. I didn’t notice any breaks in the way, and the end nodes are all connected to the adjacent ways in the relations. I also checked for duplicate ways and found none, so I don’t know what the problem is. Maybe it’s something obvious I’m overlooking, but I can’t see it.

Can anyone help with this?

Can I map my own island in Lonowai District? I somehow cant edit areas in Mecyna, I was making a mountain town, and clicking on an area in the editor dosen’t work

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to point out my new island chain that I am mapping off the Leressan Coast. Any feedback helps.

The OGF planet is even more industrialised than the real world, even though only half the world has been mapped so far. It is thus inevitable that the problems of worldwide climate change, air pollution and fossil fuel shortages would likely be even more advanced than in real life. Whilst we can expect there to be a comparable battle of words and politics going on between governments, the green movement, the oil and auto industries and private citizens, it seems likely that efforts to tackle these problems would be at a different stage to the real world - hopefully more advanced. Either way, the likely state of the world is that oil is getting more expensive as it runs out, and this is going to have the biggest impact on transport.

With this in mind, how advanced is the cycling culture and provision in your country, specifically your cities? It is going to be almost inevitable that citizens are economically pushed towards both electric cars and bikes, and enlightened and democratic governments are going to realise the latter is the better choice to encourage. As a keen cyclist myself, I’ve started mapping in much greater detail the urban cycling provision of Karolia, which is at an almost Netherlands-like level (with somewhat less exclusion of motor vehicles from the city centres, but deliberately limited car parking vs adequate bike parking) and with a comparable cycling culture where cars are seen as a secondary option to be used on longer journeys or when heavy items must be carried. By contrast, perhaps your territory has a piecemeal provision that makes some cheap fixes but overall still favours cars, or is an outright hostile environment for anyone not driving.

… See full entry

Hello,

I’m relatively new to OGF and only started developing my own country a few months ago. I recently began my country’s capital city and now have made an area suitable for embassies. If anyone in interested please feel free to drop in and make one.

If you require more information about my country or anything really please send me a message

Many thanks, Tommypoo

RE-EDIT I’m trying to find out which territory to claim. I’m trying to get a desert country with a long coast to sustain some major cities and an inland desert. Ideally it would be a major muslim-analogue nation. Any advice? Also, are there any Islam or Judaism analouges I don’t know about in OGF?

After much deliberation and discussion, I have taken on the task of drawing up a list of Ingerish monarchs to help further flesh out Ingerland and it’s empire. Also coming will be information on the Ingerish Commonwealth and the Ingerish Games (a version of the RL Commonwealth Games that involves ~53 countries around the world)

Given that a page listing any monarchs is likely to affect a very large number of you out there, I wanted to avoid any conflicts and duplication. So if anyone has already named an Ingerish monarch in the history of their own country, please let me know. That way, I can make every endeavour to incorporate it into the list.

The list of monarchs will use English-sounding names, that are era appropriate, and attempt avoid clashing with RL monarchs wherever possible.

Stay tuned for a list on the wiki in the coming days :)

Hello everyone!

Wow, this is already the fourth weekly word. Time flies :)

So, let’s see what the word is this week:

BUS

I would love to see you creations! Post your mapping in the comments.

Niels

I noticed the node feature on the map today. I added one in Vinnmark, which should be a useful tool to let other mappers know what your doing and what can be fixed. Particularly in the blue countries.

I think we should make this a thing

Making a city is hard. But having no jobs for you citizens is horrible! Industry to the rescue!

Are there any examples in OGF of runways for a Regional Airport? I have been using Toronto Pearson International Airport as a benchmark for runways, but I think I’ve taken it a little too far… Thanks! It might not appear yet in standard mode at the time of posting.

I started on OpenGeofiction about a week and a bit ago, and while I waited for my territory-requesting period, I decided to make a city from scratch. It was a little confusing where I could build until someone sent me the overview map. I found an area I wanted and started by building a road that went straight across. I then built many supporting roads to fill in the rest of the area. I built a lighthouse on the northernmost point of the peninsula, and some beaches. Following that, I just built whatever I thought I needed in the city, basing the center-area on my neighborhood. I also added a few artificial islands, Karpen and Kirken island on the west coast. Note how they look extremely unrealistic. I then proceeded to build the Business-Residential area. I placed a Moderate-Sized [or so I thought] blob for a residential area, called it the Jan Mooren Townhouses, and put a massive forest behind it. I did not know about the OGF Scale Helper (http://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/map_scale.html?map=2.466367943172236/11.97132/85.14261&map2=x/36.23664/68.11143&pxpt=0.277&scale=100000000), so I did not think about checking the sizes. I then went east and made a suburban area, using the same size houses for every street in the area, and numbering them intricately. I left it there and worked on something else, until Isleño told me to use the OGF Scale Helper to compare the sizes of my buildings to their real-life counterparts. I checked one of my Suburban houses to a house in real life, and my house was 10 times larger. It was too late to resize them all, so I had to build another one, still near Perkins Point.

Lesson of The Day: Always check the scale of your buildings so they aren’t palaces instead of houses. Also, don’t make your buildings weird shapes just so they fit in between every block.

Hello, everyone. I’m fairly new to this website, and I’ve recently decided to start mapping some things. I just finished working on the downtown area of the city of Alexandria in Mecyna. I added some new streets and buildings, and created a few parks. I’m currently looking for some constructive criticism on this location. If someone could also tell me how to find out more about the region’s Climate and geography, that would be very helpful.

Location; http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/-24.98585/146.03271