Hi everyone! I created a new city north of a small town it’s National Park. Obviously, I need to fix up the freeway and major things, and I’m going to add a big addition west of the city.

What are your thoughts so far? Any criticism is supported, but keep in mind this is a “Regional” City, not a major one. So the motorway doesn’t need to be changed, unless y’all have better ideas. Thank you!

People have been expressing discontent with my national flag. In reality, I don’t care what you think, but to pacify those who are angry, I have listed some proposals for a new flag made by me and other users here: https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Talk:Capitalia (SCROLL DOWN)

Please comment some of your thoughts, and which design you prefer on the talk page.

I myself would prefer Proposal 1 or 3.

Hey OGF World!

So, I just saw this interesting video on clichés from countries around the world and thought “Hey, what would it be like here in the OGF world?”

So, I’m here to ask people to create a cliché from their OGF country that may or may not be true! Feel free to add it to the comments. I can’t wait to see what you guys create!

Here’s an example:

Leresso (my country): We drink a lot of wine (true, kind of).

I have not requested for embassies for about a year. I will double the size of Embassy Park and add new service roads. I will not move the existing Terwen embassy, but i will prop up the Draco embassy. So, does anyone want an embassy?

What do you guys think about the West Bay Region (including Saint-Pascal) as a whole?

I have done reconstruction in the past week and i would like to have opinions.

Criticism welcome!

Hello, everyone!

It’s time for this month’s mapping challenge. The focus this month will once again turn to culture and tourism, but with a different spin.

Imagine you’re walking through your favorite bookstore in another country. You stop at the travel section, and what do you see? A travel guide from Sociable Planet (or some other company) about your country! What does it say inside?

Your challenge is to create a few new places that would be highlights in a travel book about your country. The possibilities are almost endless: museums, religious buildings, historical sites, nature walks, parks, abandoned buildings, unique sporting events, concert venues, restaurants and hotels, unique architecture, fun beaches, etc. How detailed you go is up to you. As you complete your new work, share it for the community either below or in on forum page. But, I’d encourage you to post more than one creation! If you’d really like to play along, go ahead and give it a rating or a cost below, too.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask a friend! As always, I’ll do my best to provide feedback where I can. Good luck, everyone!

Hopefully this will be a fun challenge for people. I already have a ton of ideas and things in the works. What about you?

Hey, guys, I have a question. Actually, questions:

How much should the population of a city be to make it… ‘major’? I know that you can’t just make a point, call it a city, and put its population to 150 mn, saying it is major. Also, how much should the pop. be for it to have: an airport, its own companies, big parks, and others.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I am ready to host Geovision, but under a different style.

On my previous post about Geovision, people suggested that i do a festival instead.

I would like to build a venue, but as always, I will need a bit of help.

So, I am searching for well-experienced users who can help me build the venue.

The 1st Geovision Song Festival (besides the contests) will be held on the 23rd and 24th July 2018 on Pioneers Island, Skalenia!!!

The press center will be in neighboring Franquese town of Saint-Pascal.

https://opengeofiction.net/way/11767614

Well, Bhj867 and I have just finished zoning off the Pretanic Demilitarised Zone (PDZ), possibly one of the longest heavily fortified border in the world. Not wanting to brag, but it is quite significant even in the OGF world.

If you (an Antigoan) try to even enter the zone, 40 bullets will start hailing at you, and possibly 3 to 5 grenades will be thrown, and last of all, get exploded by a landmine before you can cross to paradise in Pretany. Charming. (Antigoan Propaganda-Why even try to escape the paradise of Antigo and go to the hell in Pretany? Why also die in this disgraceful manner?)

Comparing to the Korean Demilitarised Zone, it is much longer, and zigzags crazily not on one straight latitude (the DMZ in Korea used to go along the 38th parallel, but the current one is not). However, it is still slightly too straight for some parts.

There are still some more things to do, such as adding more army bases on both sides, creating a Joint Security Area where negotiations can take place, and make it more zig-zag-gy like this.

The border is believed to be formed after an armistice is signed between the two states of Pretany and Antigo following some sort of civil war. Similar to how the DMZ in Korea is created.

Behind the senses, bhj867 and I are still discussing for potential border conflicts, such as a case for hikers from Rickorack Reserve getting lost and entering Antigo by accident. (Hike at your own risk!)

Si caedhys moocstat sie hoostec peubh ygh paef ranael ug weas ceal sie hoostec, his ug vemefnu vicstat gu it no Wysthyr eglis ceal untensubh. Begher hirtyn, ug màh ca se hen se judhghen hiven sie Wysthyr po creelle. Er gesaerva menner ug paevàst po earre: ug daecena ecest oncun ghavenne ym pòbynnerthe ym sie hemys cehe. Ym meheven er pyh heanne sie hiven ceal egul, ug ivyrth oog po connostat menner paevist east weas meub.

A recent change in my free time priorities gave me some extra time, so I used the opportunity to work on Wyster a bit more intensively. As of today, three out of fourteen counties of Wyster have been completely covered with stuff. This doesn’t mean that I have finished with them: names and buildings and other things still have to be added. And since it concerns three of the smaller counties, I can tell with certainty that I won’t be finished any time soon.

Hey fellow mappers,

I have transformed a mountain from a single way (natural=wood) into a way more detailed map. What do you all think?

Best regards

A few months ago I decided to wipe my first city in Glaster, Ellmouth, clean straight off the map. It was simply too outdated in relation to my current mapping style, so I deleted the entire thing. Being a very sentimental person, I decided to keep the original Ellmouth as an OSM file, as well as leaving some places or landmarks tagged as ‘line=yes’, just as a testament for what was once there. It would be useful to re-render the old Ellmouth and lay it over my current work. Old screenshots of Ellmouth do exist, but they are all at either a too low or too high zoom level to be useful at the current time. Is there any way of rendering the OSM data without uploading it to OGF?

Mappingwise I’ve taken a break from Plowford and have started rebuilding Ellmouth now, mostly here, although my progress has somewhat ground to a halt. I don’t exactly know where to go with my mapping now. I feel like I should do something significantly interesting to the place, rather than normal, everyday kind of interesting I am accustomed to mapping. Any suggestions?

Happy mapping!

Yuanls

I just became aware of a comparatively new WebGL globe framework (via weeklyOSM), which looks very promising:

http://www.openglobus.org/

Make sure to look at the examples. It’s not yet possible to add arbitrary 3D objects, like e.g. buildings but it seems to be planned. WeeklyOSM mentioned that the developer asked for data city models in the OSM forum, so exciting times might lie ahead…

For an OGF example, see here: https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/openglobus.html

I have major changes happening in my life - announced in my blog: http://blog.geofictician.net/?p=126

Hi there!

Because I was uncertain of some renderings, especially of the wetland subtag, which isn’t further explained on the OSM map features page, I’ve decided to use some empty space in Nor∂urland to create a rendering test area. I will keep it there as long as I don’t use this area (and then I will move it elsewhere), so if you are interested, take a look at:

https://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/71.5514/35.4618

This problem has having me troubled for long: When I search my city’s name, why does it show a tertiary road called Calle Orós instead of my city? Whenever I want to know how to get to my city to, suppose, Katsnelson or Dolala, I have to always search up from Blaan instead of my city, which isn’t that accurate in the sense of time.

Hopefully someone knows why…

-iiEarth

Hey everyone,

I tried to make some untagged ways which show me where the mountain range “goes”, if you know what I mean.

My question is, is that realistic? I know some things, but I am not an expert in geography/geology. But anyway I find it useful because that gives me a sense of topography.

What are your opinions about this?

Best regards

Hey Guys,

I wasn’t that active in the last half year, because I had to look for a new job! But now I’m back and I was wondering what happend in the last half year? Are there any big changes or is there somethingelye i have to know?

I’m really excited to be back and to work more on my Country! happy mapping!

I think it would be cool if, like in Google Maps, we could click on buildings and city names and read info about them instead of having to type them in on the search bar. And even then it’s a raw table with the attributes and values.

Is it my (seriously old Win7) computer finally dying or do we have an issue in tile renewal ? Changes done a good 5 hours ago show not or only partially.

Marcello.