Hello dear mappers,

I have started to move the embassies in Guai from their current ungrouped relations type to a set of nodes grouped in a [dedicated relation] (http://opengeofiction.net/relation/76439). The purpose is, of course, to manage them more easily in JOSM but also in the corresponding Wiki article.

I started with using Mstr’s automated tables but switch to using a regular #get_web_data so that I can concatenate values from “addr:street” & “addr:housenumber” in one single column and displayed “name:en” below the original “name”. On this table, I’m facing two issues:

• The table is not necessarily updated when new members are added to the relation. It does not even display the same results when I’m logged in and when I’m not. I’ve added #clear_external_data but it doesn’t seem enough.

• I cannot “Order by” country the table so that the result is displayed by node @id by default (e.g. Broceliande Embassy and Cultural Centre are shown separately). Apparently, data should be sorted before being uploaded on the table. For xml file, it appears you need to code in xPath which doesn’t contain “order by” operator but a function expression.addSort. My coding knowledge having reached its limits, does anyone know how this could be embedded in the query?

I thank you a lot if someone’s got some clue on how to fix these two issues.

Aiki

Hello guys. Today’s is the 52nd year of independence in Singapore- 9 August, the day Malaysia expelled Singapore and we are independent, like unexpectedly. My nation is commemorating the event through a National Day Parade, to read more see here.

I want to ask, in your countries, do you all celebrate national day, or some national event like ‘Democracy day’, Freedom day’. ‘King’s xx Birthday’ etc.? Write down those dates below!

How does your country celebrate that event? Is it like a parade in front of a palace, or something else? Are there performances? Besides that, what does your country do leading up to the event?

In Singkangia, two days were celebrated: ‘Republic Day’ and ‘Freedom day’. Republic Day was celebrated since the fall of the Singkangian Nationalists and the start of being a ‘socialist republic’ on 13 June, while ‘Freedom Day’ marks the end of communist rule in Singkangia on 31 August. I still have not set up a venue for such events, maybe that will be part of my next stage of mapping my main city in Singkangia.

I will also like to see the locations where these celebrations took place.

Hey everyone, I’m having some issues with JOSM. I have a lake in my country that has two small islands on it, but I’m trying to upload a new version of this area where I have done more work, including more detail on the shore and the islands, and I am receiving the error “coastline inside natural=water, 2 objects: Lake”. I’m assuming this error is referring to the two islands in the lake, but I’m not sure what the problem is, given as far as I can tell they have the exact same tags as the previous versions of the islands. The entire object is a big multipolygon, labelled as “natural=water”, with two inner polygons forming the islands. I can’t really tell what the problem is.

What am I doing wrong? Should I just hit upload despite the error? I’d appreciate some advice.

Thanks!

Hello everyone!

I’ve begun mapping a new country in Uletha - Ćira. I’m hoping to stay active and to keep good relations with everyone.

Hello everyone

I would like to thank oscar2002 for the opportunity to do this

So this week’s word is

RAIL

This could include anything related to railways, for example, stations, rails, or any other related infrastructure.

For example

Waterloo Station

Pinjarra Refinery with associated railway

Depot

Or even trams

Deadline is Midday Saturday 12th Aug, Australian Central Standard Time (GMT+9:30)

So this is probably still Friday for people in the Americas

Thanks

When I zoom in, all but a quarter of my nations land is blue. I didnt edit the coastlines to do this, this could have been someone else. If someone can figure out the problem near Ferran, and a few other places, that would be appreciated.

Hello! I’m creating a new town in my country (Illiria) and I’m trying to save the last changes without success. I received this message: Placeholder IDs must be unique for created elements.

Which is exactly the problem and how could I fix it?

Thanks

Hello all, I have claimed the medium sized territory ‘TA114f’ and I have renamed it Ferran.

I would like to have tips from the community and see if you all have a great idea for me. If I want to use it, and if its good, I will take your ideas. I would like to see what you come up with guys!

Thank you, GeoMAPS.

Hi all,

I’ve started to create a medium sized city in the central area of my country I would like to get ideas and tips from others.

Stats: Name: Karovslak Population; City: 67,600 Metro: 103,000 Style: European River City Other info: I want the central city to be rather commercialized and the outer suburbs to have pockets of market places.

Can’t wait to hear your ideas, Tommypoo

Hey there fellow mappers!

I have a love-hate relationship with mapping buildings. On one hand, I love the feeling of scale and detail they give to a map. They are the first step in creating a city that is more than just a network of roads and rails. So what’s to hate about them? Well, I’m no architect (surprise), and especially when it comes to representative buildings I continuously fail to produce anything that leaves me with a sense of satisfaction.

Currently I’m having trouble with the heart of the Kojolese government, the Gankakuchō so Hyosilwe. I redid that area recently, and now I’m struggeling to come up with a new building. To be fair, I’ve done everything to make the situation as complicated as possibly, and I wouldn’t want to swap roles with the architects in 1990’s Pyingshum.

I’ll try to summarise the basic idea in a few key points:

1. administration around the chancellor had been growing for decades, need for an adequate office space that could also be used for representative purposes became more and more urgent, however unfulfilled.

2. A fire in 1984 (read more) puts a large area in central Pyingshum to ashes, killing hundreds of people. The event is a major disaster for the government of that time conspiracy theories have their heyday.

3. The area is to be rebuilt, with a new Chancellery facing the Jōbun so Gúwan place. However, the building needs to be built in a way that it doesn’t evoke the impression that it outshines the adjacent memorial park dedicated to the victims; yet it still needs to serve for state receptions and other representative events, while also providing the executive with much needed office space. A somewhat, contemporary feel shall be used.

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hello people i have acquired the land ARO20c or now know as cordinia i will take all the help i can get and all the advice i get.

the country is new and I am making a forest in the center left part and a few mountains in the center of the forest.

please comment and give me advice

The title of this entry is the peak of my humour guys, get used to it.

Nice holiday so far no? Been on a language camp in Berlin and then a sporting camp in Ińsko, Poland where I became a certified lifeguard. Next I’m departing with friends to sail up and down the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. A lot of Sea and marine related stuff this vacation.

Anyways I’ve been a little (just a teeny weeny little bit) inactive since May because of all this stuff, including my new passion physics and astronomy, and I don’t have my computer with me so I can’t edit. However, I’ve got some ideas as to what I want to do with certain areas of Litvania.

Pomorie (formerly Egalský kráj)

I decided to rename this one because it’s name could be confused with the Drabantian one in tourist adverts and stuff. So I simply took the Slovak word for “sea” - more - and added a “Po-“ prefix denoting a region or area.

The capital of this region is Jankovar, which I am struggling with a little bit with and might even move its position because it’s a bit awkward and unnatural. It makes the street grid and railways a bit hard to navigate naturally and logically with a city in a weird place like this. I might move it a bit to the south, nearer the coast, and on the shores of the inland seawater lake Moržíca (which I might rename Koblín) and build a small town of around 5,000 in the original position.

The entire region per se is going to be sort of modelled after the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship(my true native land). Because the Egalian Lake is a glacial lake, it means that obviously a glacier had to go over the land in this area and form it using its mass and power. That’s why there will be hills (a lot of them), post glacial period lakes, ponds and also marshes, and ancient culture megaliths. Small towns will dot the region and it might aswell be a popular local tourist destination for average Litvanians who seek peace and quiet in the untouched wilderness.

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I think many of you already know about my most detailed city, Igwepir. So I’ve noticed that there are not enough parks in the city, and I thought this was a nice place for a large park.

My question is, does it look good that way, and should I expand it to the whole area marked green (the part of the trunk road (marked red) would be a tunnel, and the parallel tertiary road will probably be deleted or turned into a small street)? I’m not sure if the park would be too big that way.

I’m sure many of you have noticed, I no longer post my monthly challenges. I’m sorry about that, to those who miss them. In fact, I had hoped the community would take up the torch and run with it, but it hasn’t really happened. The closest has been what niels20020 did with the Weekly Word concept - it has been a nice effort and some great results.

This challenge is different. First of all, it’s an invitation for collaboration in my country, Ardisphere, rather than a challenge for you own work. It’s also quite detailed and difficult. It’s for ADVANCED mappers only, and especially for those obsessed with railroads.

Some of you are quite good and knowledgeable about railroads. I’m not. I enjoy thinking about and mapping railroads, but I am not any kind of technical expert.

As you know, I have been placing contours on parts of the Ardisphere. Once contours are in place, I can start to think about very realistic railroads and highways (i.e. “engineered” to match slope, terrain, etc.).

I want to have a freight / passenger line between Las Vegas, DP, and Narao, DP.

I built one a few months ago, but it was “over-engineered” and was quite baroque and implausible, and it required some excessive modifications to the contours to make it “fit.” I have deleted this draft (you might still see it on some lower-number zooms on the TOPO layer, which seems to update rather inconsistently.

Your challenge, should you wish to try, is to design a contour-realistic railroad for this stretch (see map).

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Ok, so I do a few strange interchanges in Arlington, but they are all efficient (at least from what I can tell).

This one connects not 3, 4 highways (AR F 3, AR F 7, DO 1 and AR 3).

Any suggestions for this?

Hi everyone and good afternoon!

First of all thanks to Aces California for give me the opportunity of choose the word for these month… And also wish to all luck for the next competition…

So the Weekly Word is inspired in my holidays in Portugal next to Caldas da Rainha, a beautiful countryside area:

RURAL

Farms, agrarian land use, rural roads, towns, lakes… That’s the challenge!

Here is some inspiration from my favorite rural areas in real world:

osm.org/#map=14/39.3764/-9.1940 (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)

osm.org/#map=13/43.3266/-1.8466 (País Vasco, Spain)

osm.org/#map=13/45.0048/12.2731 (Po River, Italy)

Deadline is on Sunday 6 of August at 20:00 (UTC+1)!!

Guillermo Cara

Hello,

What do you think of my recently added part to Teberia’s capital city of Rovigna? You can recognize it because it is the only part of the city with buildings. You maybe have to zoom in, because it’s still on rendering for now.

I was wondering if there is a Castellanese (Spanish) word for Babelic. I want to make a Babelic church in Balonis :)

So somebody helped me move my city and there is a piece of land for sale that could be useful also it would be helpful you guys could help me develop mt growing town

there is also a big prison just south of the military airfield

After being on a trip for the last few days I came back to find the Blue Laden Power Plant had been removed which had (in my little town’s history) where most everyone worked. In light of this I have done a lot of forest reclamation and detailed the mall area. I did slightly bulldoze the mall and changed it to an outside mall on one side and on the other side it will be the downtown area and town hall. Please feel free to help me develop the area and give any tips for future development. Thanks!

-Elimis