OpenGeofiction
Hey everyone!
Just trying to figure out what to do with my city. I’m stuck. Here are a few things I’m trying to figure out?
Any and all feedback is much appreciated! Also, I am open to any NAME suggestions!!!
Cheers, Geoboi
Is there something I’ve done wrong or will it just take a few days for it to appear?
I created a small island called Felipina a few days ago, but I created it in an unauthorised region and so it was moved by an admin. Now it lies off the west coast of Hammersmith, in the Isle of Charlington.
The issue I’ve discovered is that - while the roads and docks I created are still fine and proportioned - the outine of the island itself is a ‘line’ and not an ‘area’ meaning that I cannot fill it in.
I shouldn’t need to explain the complications that would arise with a network of roads that are placed into the middle of the ocean with no land to support them, so I would like to know if there is any way I can change the coastline to an area without having to completely redraw the shape of the island! (It took me a while)
Many thanks!
Hello again,
Just wanted to thank people for the warm welcome - I know the internet is often a hostile place so I was pleasantly surprised reading the comments on my last post!
I have since realised my error in creating islands outside of the blue zones - thank you for correcting me and it shan’t happen again.
I’ve been viewing the map and been seeing that people are making the city/town marker before making the town and zooming in to check it out and seeing nothing. To me this is very inconvenient.
Hi everyone, just thought I’d introduce myself here! I love the look of some of the places on the map here and I hope I can add something great to it in the near future.
So I’ve continued developing the “confluence city”, or in Reelandic, Symflusstat. I’ve expanded the city beyond the island. For now I’ve just made a few streets, but I like it a lot. What do you people think?
Looking forward to all kinds of comments and criticism. Regards
The subject says everything
Haarinkonaaipi lies in the north of Uletha, a few kilometres off the south eastern coast of konsiat. The territory consists of a group of mountainous and flat islands.
The country is inhabited by two contrasting groups of people: Haapi people (or the fishers who have blonde hair-blue eyes) and Ölleau people ( the reindeer herders who have dark-brown hair- green eyes Aasiatic people).
*Today, 1st januari marks the national day of the country! *
The name “Haa-rin-ko-naai-pi” literally means “Sea of sun’s new land”.
Being very excited and impatiently waiting to map on my claimed territory, I wonder how long it usually takes for other users to get approved by admins in order to start editing on their claimed territories after their first 7 days.
Hello! I am Arlo, a new mapper to OpenGeoFiction and would just like to introduce myself.
Over time, I noticed the Word of the Week being posted here for people to participate in, but now there aren’t any more being posted. Are the people busy, was it moved elsewhere, or was it discontinued altogether?
Thanks, Zekiel
With this, wiki collaborators might revise pages with “Omniville” in it, and mapmakers can rename embassies of Omniville to Embassy of Buildtion.
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! Does anyone know how to make a large plateau in their nation? I’m thinking that you just put a cliff, but it is not very representative of a plateau and doesn’t render as quickly as the structures around it. If anyone knows or has any examples, please tell me. Once again, Happy Holidays!
Thanks, Zekiel
There is a cliff on the map that I’m trying to use as a plateau, but it does not render as quickly as the road on the other side of the border (At Zoom 12). This is what I mean.
Having recently acquired my own land in OGF, I have started work on the capital city of Myola. But first, a brief introduction to the basis of this country.
New Austland is intended to reflect Australia and New Zealand (as suggested by its catchy name). The attributes of New Austland, both natural and artificial, should seem reasonably familiar if one has lived or travelled in either country.
For example, the WIP capital city of Myola is located slightly inland from a river mouth and a large bay. Every Australian state and territory capital (except Canberra) is located in a similar position. This was due to the early European settlers deliberately choosing these locations for practical reasons (i.e. trade, agriculture and transport).
I am aiming to create New Austland as an ‘improved version’ of an Australian/New Zealand city. Those who are Australians or Kiwis may recognise some key features already in Myola that are characteristics of cities from these two countries.
What constitutes a ‘better’ country or city is obviously subjective. To me, there are many issues present in Australian cities that can be addressed. This is, in fact, my day job. So I do have some experience and knowledge in this area. I might go into some specific measures in later posts. For now, have a quick look at what I have done so far in Myola if you would like a general idea of what I am talking about.
New Austland will not be built as a fully-planned country. Instead, settlements will show patterns of historical organic growth followed by retrofitting of improvements in the recent past.
As such, I hope to use this as a project to show what can be achieved in real life throughout similar cities. It is very possible to make better habitats for humans and geofiction can be a useful tool to showcase the potential of creativity and imagination.
As much as we have our own OGF featured maps, shouldn’t there be a page where good OSM maps could be shown, so that we can model our maps based on the RW maps?
(If only if at least 75% of our world is as detailed and realistically looking as OSM’s)
Hi all! As i am developing my country Ünglend I would like to make a Layer for all roads I wanna build. I already made the graphics, but I would like to see how the ‘big boys’ do it and if it is right.
This is the picture
To everyone! May the next few days be the best!
AFOREMENTIONEDD
Now that I’ve finally got JOSM set up, I spent a good chunk of yesterday mapping out the rough outline of the topography for my country, Patermas, which you can see here. There are two mountain ranges, the Brocades to the west (which begin to the north, in Gamen, and are based off of the Tell Atlas in Algeria) and the El Salteadors/Yaguis to the east, a large karst formation which Patermas shares with Draco and Targueral (and are based off of the Mogotes range in Cuba, with a bit of southeastern China/northern Vietnam, though not quite that elaborate). They gradually move toward each other, creating a large, tapering central valley, and meet around the southern border with the massive TA013 territory, currently unclaimed.
I also mapped out the country’s major river systems, including the Col River, which is the wide, central river into which the southern and eastern mountain watersheds drain, creating a large fertile territory, protected from the Serion Desert by the Brocades, and suitable for agriculture. There are also several large salt lakes between the Serion in the Brocades, based on the Chott el Djeridd in Tunisia.
Last but not least, I added a few more minor cities so that every metro with more than 200k people is mapped, and then drew the main lines of the country’s expressway system. There will be a dominant urban mega-region in the north along the coast, three cities of about 1.5 million, and then a network of cities with 200-500K people. There will be a population of about 22 million, giving Patermas a population density of 125 people per km2, similar to France or Poland. About 80% of the population will live in metropolitan/urban areas (similar, again, to major western countries), meaning a rural population of about 4 million.
