Hello everyone,

We have a new (unofficial) channel on the OSM-US Slack for OGF. To join you have to register at https://slack.openstreetmap.us and join the #opengeofiction channel. The Slack is called OSM-US but people from everywhere are welcome, so feel free to join!

Hi all,

This is my first diary post, but it’s more like a question.. I would have posted it on the forum, but I can’t figure out how to log into that. It seems to be connected to a wiki account which I do not have either and am unsure how to get.

In the OSM world I use a tool called ‘whodidit’ which shows you recent edits for an area in a useful and clear grid cell representation. You can even generate an RSS feed so you can set up something to notify you when someone edits in an area easily.

I didn’t find a version of this tool for OGF. Technically it would be easy enough to install but I don’t know if the endpoints required are available in the OGF world. Specifically whodidit queries https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/ and https://planet.openstreetmap.org/replication/hour. Does OGF mimic this aspect of OSM infrastructure, allowing tools like this to be adapted to work in the OGF world?

I’ve been working on The Premises in Mecyna for a few months, but I’ve felt that the name feels too unnatural, so I need ideas on the city’s new name. I just deleted the name (although it might not have rendered yet).

Guidelines:

This city is VERY recent. It is a master-planned community constructed from the early to mid 1990s, and it flourished from a modern industry that was rooted there before the city was actually built. The Premises could possibly be the name of the city in the couple or so years before it really began to develop.

The area is very mountainous, and slightly chillier than the tropics of the lower ground, although it rarely snows. There is an area of flat land to the southwest (along route 193) that will consist of mostly farms.

It has few natural resources but is boosted by information technology and similar industries, and has several universities.

If anyone has ideas, please comment! i will appreciate the feedback! Megacity2005Creator

Im making a detailed new and future big city called Narf. The 1st thing I made is the Castle and the city hall. Can you help me with some ideas?

I’m finally back to this again, after me leaving and coming back to finish stuff in my territory.

Decided to take in more inspiration from my neighbors and real life. I have so far made enough highways for one time.

I want to ask for more help mapping like homes and farms and stuff.

I have looked for where to contribute in Opengeofiction, but I do not find anything relevant. Most of the spaces in the blue countries are occupied, countries can not be requested and I do not know what else to do. If someone has any suggestions for me where to edit, I accept their ideas.

Hi,

I got a small county to map in the Federal States of Archanta. Since I can’t write in the wiki and haven’t found any answers there I have to ask my questions here:

• are there common standards how to map motorways/trunk roads and railways, e.g. regarding the distance of lanes or tracks?

• I’d like to draw farms and farmland. What should be the typical size of a farm and farmland in this region?

• how to determine the width of rivers? I know the corresponding explanation in the wiki, but how to deal with rivers coming from/going to other states and don’t possess a reasonable width?

Enjoy your weekend

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So, lately I’ve been working a lot on my city of Klausburg (international/Ingerish name Clausburgh). I think almost all urban parts of the city are mapped to a certain extent. The parts that aren’t mapped yet are:

• the western parts of Antre and Neustat (up to West Ringweg and Sut Ringweg)

• the southern part of Neustat (south of Neu Kai and the small railway bridge)

After that I plan on mapping suburban and rural areas in the entire administrative area.

So, what I’d like to hear is: is this a good “sketch” of a city with around 120k to 200k inhabitants (I’m not sure about what the population should be)? Does it resemble a European city in a valley among the mountains? Is it mapped well so far?

Best regards and thanks in advance

Today is February 15th, meaning we’re now over the hump of the four-week-long City Sprint! I’ve noticed a slump in mapping, and have been feeling a bit wrung out myself lately…yesterday was the first day since Feb 1 that I didn’t map at all. A challenge like this is more fun with friends, so since the User Diaries send updates when replies are added I thought a post here could be a fun way for those of us who’d like a bit of communal cheering-on to get our fix.

Over the second half of the City Sprint, post updates, ideas, questions, etc. related to your City Sprint projects here. The point of this thread is to create an encouraging environment, so please avoid snark, sarcasm, rudeness, abruptness, etc.

I’ll kick things off. My goal was to kick the development of my country’s capital city into warp-speed; it was a completely blank slate at the start of the month, just a name on the map. I’m really excited about the amount of progress I’ve made so far; the central city is pretty much done in terms of the street network, and a number of key buildings are already mapped. Here’s a link where you can check out the progress I’ve made so far on Canan-Yar.

What have you been up to these past two weeks? Any exciting projects completed? New ideas sparked? Share away!

I designed a non-standard junction. Hope you like it! EDIT: I meant junction 2. Junction 3 is standard. Southbound traffic joining Attikai Expy. uses a different lane on the carriageway (A 301 B is undivided until just after the A 1)

I’ve been mapping Dunwic in its new spot for over a year now and I have to say I’m really happy with how my neighbourhoods are turning out, especially the city centre and areas north of the river.

Although I’ve been doing a lot of detailing my next plan is to start fleshing out the shape and limits of the city and when that’s done there won’t be much scope for making any major changes. That’s why I want to get people’s feedback on whether they think the shape of Dunwic is realistic and what kind of things they would expect to see in the surrounding area.

https://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/56.3649/20.0500

There won’t really be any traditional suburbia due to the political and planning history of the city. Instead Dunwic will be quite physically small but dense all the way to the edges like some Dutch cities.

https://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/56.40719/20.05437 < this is the northern extent of Dunwic and how I envisage many of the outer neighborhoods looking.

Four counties in New Carneby (Federal States of Archanta) west of the metropole of Stanton shall be develloped. This work is nothing for friends of motorways and excessive rectangled street grids - here we prefer a more rurual type of urbanisation.

Rails, motorways and primary roads are given. No more “towns”. (“Town” here mean a place with more than 50,000 inhabitants). Only one town in each county may have 100,000 to 120.000 inhabitants, the others with lesser people. Only small regional airfields (one in a country). Town boundaries here are usual with admin_level = 8

Only one wiki-article for each county to avoid overwikification.

Sure you may change details of the given items, but not the generel layout. May be at some occassions you feel, a changing of the layout is necessary - then we can discuss about. If you can be friend with this conditions, please write to BMSOUZA or histor to get your claim.

It can be offered:

=== Aldergate County === see [https://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/-40.3552/159.3622] flat landscape. In the east sleeping towns for Stanton, in the west rurual character. Town boundaries are given.

=== Beaver County === see [https://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/-40.6809/159.1116] low hills, generally rurual character, in the east sleeping towns for Stanton

=== Pacuhanco County === see [https://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/-40.7704/158.8712] flat landscape, rurual character, in the west more or less swampy area of Carnegy River. In the east changing to soft hills. You may add few towns

=== Six Lakes County === see[https://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/-40.9454/159.1143] hilly landscape, holiday area for Stanton, many weekend-houses, small villages and towns, romantic lakes

Hello!

I’m CharlieG from Artenia. But, in the real OpenStreetMap, I’m Gorbs. I map areas around my home in Suburban Philadelphia, USA. Recently, I’ve been getting into mapping extreme detail and residential areas, since that’s what most areas around me are comprised of, and what most areas are missing. While enjoying myself, I stopped mapping for a second and appreciated the updated design of OSM compared to OGF. I wondered why its top bar looked cleaner, why there were many more features for points, lines, and areas compared to OGF, etc. I noticed a while back (maybe 6-9 mo. ago) that OGF got an update, and the servers were down for about a day for me. Will this happen again soon? Could it? Not to be so arrogant in understanding how the server works, but I am curious as to why the major update has not happened yet.

Thanks for tuning in! -C

For some extra links,

osm.org/#map=15/40.2008/-75.0705 An example near me of what residential, etc. areas should look like

osm.org/#map=15/40.3505/-75.0847 What reality is in OpenStreetMap

osm.org/#map=15/40.2551/-74.9288 What I’ve tried replicating

I forgot to mention this in my previous post, so I’d like to ask if anybody wanted to collaborate on the coastline of my soon-to-be revamped country, Basmia. I’m absolutely hopeless at coastlines and natural shapes, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Please DM me if you’re interested.

Thanks, BP483

One of TCC last Revers of Vandalisem apparently faild or Buged out this resulted in the Creation of Many Nodes without any attribute if you look Closely you can estimate that these were Highways Exampel Picture

For Now i put these nodes in a Relation to Keep track of them Link

Please Reply if you have any more Infos.

To give my country, Liria, more mystery… one of the island will start using its own alphabet (notice that is another alphabet, not another language)

what do you think about it?

Earlier today, I cleared out my territory, Basmia, for the second time in a year (it may not have rendered yet).

My scale was out of whack and I hadn’t focused on the geographical features as much.

I’ve made a concept map showing my new plans for my country. You can see it here.

Any feedback on it would be much appreciated. :)

Hey everyone.

I’d love some input on Beaudry, a Leressan city right between the capital of Aludres and the stylish (soon to be overhauled) city of Montecari (maybe I could have worked on Montecari for the City Sprint… guess it’s too late, lol!). It’s main forms of public transportation are buses and streetcars, and is home to the City University of Beaudry, one of the most prestigious institutions in the Kadmar Basin.

I’d love to know how the city looks (sprawl, mapping of downtown, etc.), and ways to improve (what to do with the port, beaches?, etc.).

Thanks!

Somebody said they were on hold , But i want to know why and sorry for spam of entries . I have sent several requests . but several days and nothing. Do the admin only do the ones after 7 days of contributor terms?

Diversity of the OGF World must be one of the top Issues, e.g country size, politically, equality, wealth disparity and overall the level of economic development in a given country, to live in a OGF World where every country is in the High ranking of the HDI is rather unrealistic.

Edit— I also think that this whole idea of a global economy could relate to the FSA and a potential Community Soviet Union, ensuring we have a Limited Multi-polar world could tie in to economic prosperity. I have always thought that UL099 could be fantastic in that role, think how much natural resources it will have, also it would obviously be a strong ally with Antigo.