This is rather philosophical:

You draw an opera in your map. By doing this, you acknowledge that in the OGF world the musical genre of “opera” exists. But this genre only came to be because of European music history of many centuries, so you acknowledge that this has taken place, too. So there has to be Europe, which there isn’t in OGF.

If OGF is a different world, why would they even have operas? Would they have orchestras? Wouldn’t they be playing totally different instruments?

Another example: The OGF encyclopedia states “Avoid referencing real world companies, organizations, and famous people or characters”. Alright, no Coca Cola etc. But what about math and science, for instance? Do we have to come up with a new name for Euler’s number just for the sake of it?

Of course all of this doen’t really matter much for the mapping itself, but I can’t wrap my head around the concept that the OGF world has to be similar to the real world when no real world history, people and places are supposed to exist…

Planoria has white lines and median lines are thicker than the other lines. If there is a concrete median on a city avenue for example, there are no road lines, but on neighborhood roads (with sidewalks) there is only a median line.

I’ve been working mainly on paper, like tracing maps, writing ideas and stuff like that. Also I don’t have too many time, so updating Aŭstrasuno Tero will take some time and I’m considering little changes and adjusting things. I’ve been looking for a grid background for JOSM, but I think there isn’t any.

Meanwhile I’ve found an interesting exersice of summarizing a country information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkSo0WIVNcw

I was wondering about the status of making important religious sites - Like the Vatican, Mecca, and Jerusalem. I would think it is okay to do it, but after reading some wiki talk pages about it, I am not so sure anymore.
It would be great to see a place like that somewhere in OGF.

I plan on creating one of the above if I can indeed create one of those places.

Thanks,
Zekiel

May I for once (hopefully) express my extreme displeasure in the recent change of OSM / ‘Mapnik’ rendering for ‘farmland’ ? I know there has been a discussion on GitHub, I know there is a (for some) valid reason regarding confusion of colours for social amenities and farmland, but still…

My point is this: I model a tropical island. There, farmland is rarely vaguely green, as rendered now, but often a vibrant yellow. And larger patches of farmland in moderate climates now almost look like the default background colour.

I know ‘mapping for the renderer’ is an ultimate sin, but f#*k it, I’m trying to make ‘my’ turf look good. For me, OGF is as much art as it is skill. The sudden change of my plantations from sort of golden glow (sugar cane, anyone ?) to a decrepit ‘vomit green’ is realy annoying - even if I have to accept it in the end.

sorry for ranting, thanks for letting me blow of steam ;-)

Marcello.

I’m John from the Philippines and I’ve been a user for quite a few years. One of my big projects here is my project on the connection of the separate rail lines in Commonia. Right now, I’ve been working to link the previously separate rail lines in the southwestern territories, as well as by creating new railway stations. Right now, I’m working to connect the rail services in the West and East Cape regions and am planning to connect to the central parts of Duvar. A rail depot is now in operation south of Nueron Point in Brogen to serve local passenger trains and a freight terminal is being constructed in Dodgerstown to accomodate freight trains to the city ports. A connector line to bypass the central stations of Confluencia and link its north and south railway lines is now completed. As of present almost every major city in the southwestern coast of Commonia has a dedicated railway service. I’m also doing a line extention and expansion work in the northern areas to link with other rail lines already in place.

Here’s hoping every part of Commonia has a dedicated railway service.

Gambling doesn’t seem to play a crucial role in OGF so far: where gambling is offered

If you are interested in where something is offered or where and how tags are used, just have a look at the list of standard overpass queries. There you can also look up the official explanation for keys and tags in the OSM wiki. Enjoy!

As much as I call Planoria the OGF Canada, what other countries in OGF are like canada?

I am a beginner on Opengeofiction, I am for a few days working on my own country (Free Republic of Limensophia, on the Uthyran coast, in the north of Tarephia), and I don’t know how to do harbours (I have tried to drive a line and tag it “harbour” but nothing appears on the map.) It is of course an obvious thing for many people here, and it is maybe not the good place for this kind of question, but if someone could answer, …

Hi All,

Following the advice of OFG Making Realistic Countries, I’m trying to draft my landscape and natural resources in detail before beginning to map human stuff. My country is Embla in Antarephia. Check out the latest draft (rough sketch) on my blog here:

https://emblaogf.blogspot.com/2018/09/revised-elevation-map.html

Let me know if you have any suggestions for the realism of terrain/river systems, placement of population centers, or advice on continuing to build detail into the terrain.

Hello. I would like to build a regional/national airport near Konalmi, in the gap between Conosa and Lumsoll. I can’t find any example of that certain type of airport, so do you guys know where I can find one?

Okay, so i’m extremely curious about the ogf’s world’s history, and not a lot is written about the days before humans. What roamed the OGF world? What did it look like? I have one map i made of what i think the OGF pangea would look like

Hello fellow mappers! I’ve got a bit of a pet peeve and was wondering if anyone on here could help.

Whether it’s a border (multi-polygons), an area, a river or whatever. I’d like to know if any of you can give me some tips and tricks for when it comes to overlapping lines which should belong to different relations, so I don’t have to redraw said complex object several times.

Practically, let’s say I want to make a national park follow the coastline - how would I do that without painstakingly making every single dot alongside the coastline a part of said relation?

Thank you in advance, Thanik.

My JOSM is not working, even though I followed all of the steps (which included downloading some other things too). Is there a step which I did wrong/missed?

Thank you!

-iiEarth

Is there a China in ogf yet? I’ve recently restarted whatever existed in my country and my origin being Chinese and my decent understanding of Mandarin and China, I feel I could be able to create an OGF china. I’ve been off mapping on ogf for a long time as I joined way too young to even have a good grasp of what makes a good map, I’ve played around on Cities Skylines and on paper, I feel I can start mapping for good this time. If I’m not good enough to make one I’ll just keep on trying to make my nation but I’d like too know if you think I could be capable of accomplishing this task

Please excuse this terrible ordering Egg

It is hard to believe that five years have passed since this thing of ours has started. I was a little late this year in adding to my little anniversary park in First Harbour. https://opengeofiction.net/#map=19/34.40527/144.13305

I started mapping an area in my country (Liria) and I don’t know how am I doing it. I like super-detailed things so I use iD. In the island (the link is down) I want to make two little towns + 3 very little ones (50-100 inhabitants) is it too much for such a little island?

I just started detailing around the borders and my fingers hurt from putting down nodes. Even if I wanted to place like a bunch of towns, it’ll still be a lot of work. Not sure if it’s the same for others, but it really makes my hands tired.

I’ve read ToS, however, i’ve read the ToS but i never got it so: Your creations are yours, Or is OGF’s property?

Hi, I’m CharlieG, owner of Artenia. Currently, my country is based on Ingerish like many other countries around the OGF World. I only know one other language–Hebrew–and Artenia was supposed to be a sort-of second Israel, but even newer (i.e. created in the 70’s) and less complicated (see the golan heights syria border and palestine disputed border). But, I did not choose Hebrew as mapping in Ingerish seemed the better thing to do, assuming that my country is first-world, new, and connected to many other Archantan countries. (and even farther countries)

I have stated in some Wiki articles that Native Artenian is a language–one that I haven’t made my mind up for how it is structured. This is when YouTube came into the picture.

DONG, a YouTube channel spread widely (with 1.6M subs), uploaded a video that showcased a language creator that was specific to your needs. It is called vulgarlang.com and you can buy it or try the demo online. I think this could be helpful for many people so that they can get together a whole language without needing to know another one. I sure could use this once I get to Native Artenia, but, for now, I’ll share it with the OGF World.

Thanks for taking interest, -CharlieG