I noticed that new user imazzz has been making edits (http://opengeofiction.net/user/imazzz/history) in territories that do not belong to him. I have pointed this out to him. Can anyone reverse this “vandalism”, or does the owner of the relevant country have to do it.

Through my time working on the town of Plowford (Though recently more erratic), I’ve happened to have developed a sort of transect from the town centre, going outwards to its edges. I’m on its very latest stages now, on the rural-urban fringe (for my more rural mapping, look to the east). This is pretty much a summary of what the rest of my mapping in Plowford will look like for the foreseeable future. This is the stage I ask, while I still can, what there is to improve.

Transect along Harcourt Road (zooming in required)

Thank you and good day

Yuanls

It’s been a while since I posted on here. I decided to basically wipe everything in my territory and start over again. There are a lot of things that need to be addressed, and I would definitely appreciate any feedback regarding my capital, Bashkim and its immediate surroundings.

Hi everyone

I’m Jumbooo, and I’ve started mapping some 5 days ago. I’ve started a city with a population of about 120.000. It’s called Dominton, and it’s on the west coast of country Margarath, Midistland. I’d like to receive a feedback from more experienced users. Of course my work is far from being finished, but I’d like to know how you think it’s going.

Thank you and good mapping to everybody!

A small update from Řots (Southern Archanta) and Wyster (Eastern Uletha). In the last couple of weeks I have been mainly preoccupied with both countries’ capitals; before that, I worked on an altitude map of Řots.

In Wyster’s capital Hreawirc I just worked on creating streets and stuff; in and around Nekkar I focused on the satellite town of Bastet, southeast of the capital, and today I started working on Nekkar’s subway system.

Nekkar’s subway

For now, there are a Red Line (Airport-Sikē Va-Kervirep) and a Blue Line (Osente-Main Railway Station-Bastet, which will eventually be extended to the new airport that will be constructed southeast of the city; I should probably put that part of the line ‘under construction’ for the time being). The two lines cross at Sureekkar station.

The Red Line makes a huge detour near the airport, which is probably due to either protesting land owners who didn’t want subway constructions going through their fields, or a city council with too much money and/or wrong priorities, or both. The exact moment that this line was constructed will decide whether its construction was a waste of money or not: if it was constructed many decades ago, it may have been sufficiently useful to get to and from the airport. If it was constructed in the last ten or twenty years, it will turn out to be less useful, as recently the decision was taken to construct the aforementioned new airport, which, once completed, will significantly reduce the number of passengers on that part of the Red Line.

A third line (that I haven’t mapped yet) will probably go from Sikē Va via the Main Railway Station eastwards, via Karkar to Korp.

Altitude map

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Hey everyone,

I’ve had this problem recently, and it may be relevant to some of the newer users around here, so:

What system of road naming is consistent?

I thought of this one system for Litvania in April, where primary roads are S[number], secondary D[number], and tertiary are just numbers.

But where do these start? How do i keep it consistent?

I ask for suggestions and maybe new proposals, everything is welcome. Unnamed roads are boring.

Thanks!

Michal

Hi everyone i started planning some topography and i started planning the states (already drawed in my notebook) anyways… how can i create states?

(I already know about Split the lines but not about relations)

I would really appreciate some feedback on the airport I’m trying to detail (found here). I’m trying to figure out if I am missing any vital airport buildings, details, etc. ANY FEEDBACK IS APPRECIATED!!!! I hope this signifies my turning over a new leaf in my mapping adventures as I draw towards more and more detail.

Cheers,

Geoboi

Kurzov’s use of cancelled:()=yes

I use the key-value combination cancelled:()=yes (alternatively, I also use highway=cancelled and cancelled=()) for roads or other features that were planned but never built due to environmental petition, community action, lack of funding, etc, etc…

For example, the Sakatia Ring Road (also referred to as the SRR, pronounced ‘serr’) in Sakatia, Levarrie was planned to be a full trunk road all the way around the Sakatia metro area, but was either never envisioned or cancelled before the road’s building, leaving Sakatians with a non-grade separated but divided highway through the south side of the downtown area, and a grade-separated partial bypass on the rest of the Ring Road.

For the cancelled “Colosseum Extension” of the SRR, I used the tags,

• highway=cancelled
• cancelled=trunk
• cancelled:name=Sakatia Ring Road
• start_date=1994
• end_date=1997

Please tell me what you think. Or something like that. I dunno.

~ Kurzov/Katav

(edit: thanks markdown, I had to use “()” in place of an asterisk)

Hi!

I don’t usually post articles on the diary, but today I need to know your opinion.

I started mapping the new capital of Amsel yesterday, for now I like pretty much what I did at the center of the city, but I don’t know how to continue its development at the suburbs…

Moreover the area of the north of the city (near the university) doesn’t please me :( I think that it contrasts a lot with the rest of the city : it is too much circular for my taste, unlike the City center, even if it is meant to be a quite recent suburb (built in the 1980-1990).

What are your thoughts ? I hope you can give me some advice because I’m a little lost at the moment.

Greetings,

@redy

For real, this is some tips I do have for new mappers out there, unsure of what to build, i’d like to simplify the process for you, starting with the easy part INSPIRATION. What is your country based on? If the united states pops into your head you would go and place highways, but actually America was just forests and strange coastlines, the only reason the highways are all scattered is because of America’s urbanization on the land. So what should I do? One thing is to look around at roads in america, one place you’d never look is kentucky or west virginia, in those states there are a lot of hills, and highways have to follow the hill in order to go a specific way, so be bob ross and set your imagination wild. We are at the next step, unleashing your inner bob ross, now add realistic forests and mountains to your map, remember, don’t make it too filled with nature, because you need your towns and cities later, after you’re done, try mapping out a few towns and cities, but put it on rivers. America does this a lot, same with other countries with many rivers.

Here we are, the last part, designing your amazing flag, it might take some time to perfect but trust me, no flag is perfect.

(I might be untrustworthy but given me reading more ogf wiki articles i correct my past mistakes by filling up parts i left blank with amazing stuff, and in the end it looks, well okay.)

I recently discovered some of the remnants of my first attempt at a country still exists on the map. I also discovered how miserably bad it was. And when I say miserably bad, I mean “oh God that’s terrible block him before he messes anything else up” bad.

Part of me wanted to hope the original mapping stayed hidden/ignored forever. But I thought about it, and I felt that perhaps this will act as a bit of encouragement to newer mappers trying to get better, to show that if you’re willing to try, listen, look at examples, and take advice/constructive criticism/feedback, that you can improve.

Here’s the remains of the city of Noah in what I had at the time claimed as the first version of Freedemia in a different spot, ~2014ish:

this abomination here

And this is Quentinsburgh, Freedemia today, 2017, continuing to improve:

[not terrible if I may say so myself, still working on improving it daily] (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/-3.3853/-2.4529)

All this is to say, if you really care, and are willing to listen to advice from fellow mappers, learn different mapping techniques, look at well mapped countries and real life countries as examples, and take the time to slowly map and improve, it can make a difference and you can get better. Don’t lose hope. I know it’s been a bit rough on newbies around here lately, but understand that the majority of us just want you to learn from mistakes, keep improving, keep trying. If I’ve somehow managed to come this far, so can you.

Sincerely, Ernestpcosby

Hi everyone, i like to base my country in turkey. but keeping OGF style “no real world elements”. thats all. is good or bad?

Hello fellow mappers, Since I started mapping I loved the OGF Wiki and especially the stat lists, something inside me loves checking which countries got the highest GDPs or murder rates. The thing is that we don’t have many of these lists, so I’m bringing some ideas, hope you like them:

• List of countries by average wage
• List of countries by unemployment rate
• List of countries by housing type (houses, flats…)
• List of countries with paid maternity leave
• List of countries with universal healthcare
• List of failed states

Hi everyone, today i knowed something… There is no delete function in the OFG Wiki, i really need to delete all my articles (except Ukiria). If its by request: I request that delete all my articles (except Ukiria). I really need that.

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Hi everybody!

We are not completely satisfied with the “WikiForum” extension, but we have decided it’s the best option to provide forum-like functionality to the OGF community. Its advantages including being a part of the wiki (thus easy to maintain and integrated to the site). It can be a little bit wonky (the “edit” post function doesn’t work, for example), though, and it’s not particularly rich in features.

Anyway, it’s an improvement over these User Diaries, and it’s now open.

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Special:WikiForum

Since this is an announcement ABOUT the forum, how about you don’t comment about it below, and comment on the forum, instead? Try it out.

I have some news, Palaseskia will be remade soon. Here are the following things.

• The states will stay, some small ones will leave.
• The roads will be heavily remapped, with all highway systems staying the same.
• Town and city names will stay, except for one or more.

If you have any ideas/suggestions for Palaseskia, feel free to comment about it.

Thanks…

A huge segment of coastline is removed between node 8460513 (Meeonj near Artana) and node 36886472 (Attikai Beach in northeast Gobras City), causing a flood in Uletha.

~~How to undo an edit by someone else?~~ Someone did it

Also, it looks like this guy is frequently deleting coastlines.

Hey guys! I need help on making inner borders (like states). I know that there is a tutorial in the wiki, but I don’t understand it. Please help.