As Nordurland is quite vast and many parts of the country are unvisited by me for long times, I quite regularly find guerrilla mappings from new OFG members. Most of them are useless, some of them are really funny (but not useful in any way), but some very few stand out. This city for example. I’ve decided to keep it (even if I will rename it to a more Icelandic sounding name) as it is a quite complete, decent sketch of a city.

Did you ever stumbled upon guerrilla mappings that you found worthy enough to assimilate?

Hey everybody,

during the last weeks, I finally decided to touch a very hot potato which bothers me for at least two years: the Frjalshöfn area.

The Frjalshöfn area was one of my early mapping projects in terms of landscaping. At the very beginning of the OGF history, Thilo wrote a diary entry where he encouraged us mappers to shape their countries individually and creatively. He also linked some interesting topographical spots. The Stockholm area was within these links. And I wanted to let Frjalshöfn be like Stockholm.

In my opinion, I failed. This became more than clear to me when I visited Stockholm last year. And even worse, The Frjalshöfn area in itself is totally unrealistic. Where should the water for this specific landforming come from? In the hinterland, I imagined a mountainous landscape, however, the distance to Grænnshöfn is only approx. 75 kilometers. There is no room for the forming of large rivers with that amount of sedimentation. I was aware of that problem quite early, but I mapped on, adding more and more infrastructure to the unfinishedd geography, deciding to solve the problem of verisimilitude at a later time.

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Hi, as part of the review into Archantan territories we are reworking a number of territories to the south of the Federal States. This is the area: https://opengeofiction.net/relation/1001

The aim is to create a single country where the individual states, or portions of them, will be assigned to users. The hope is this will lead to more coherent mapping. However, in a difference to the Federal States, we are keen to not base this tightly on a real-world country, instead having the involved users come up with their own imaginative collaborative country.

Linguistically it will be:

• Majority Franquese (French) 50%
• One of the OGF-equivalent of Polish, Czech, Hungarian or Serbo-Croat (Latin alphabet) as an additional official language 30%
• Ingerlish (English) 10%, but only where already mapped
• Indigenous 10%

The capital city will be in a majority Franquese province.

Two coordinators are being sought to help with this project - French language skills being desirable for one and the additional official language for the other. Please contact wangi if you are interested.

Existing users of those territories which are affected have already been contacted, with many signing up and a couple taking the opportunity to move territory instead. Other interested users please post here, or preferably, on the forum post.

Thanks/L

Kinda proud of the Excelsior Thermal Area in Border Mountains National Park…

Some more work needs to be done, but I’m on a roll here

Trying to make an island in alake I created, but it’s just not showing up. I’ve looked through some OSM tutorials on this, but I still cannot get the boundary of the island to show up. ANy thoughts?

Hello all!

I’ve been mapping a bit less frequently lately due to college starting up (and a new relationship - eeek!) but I am still logging in every few days to check messages and map a bit, although since it is for shorter periods of time I am mainly working on putting in details in rural areas (smaller roads, little towns, canton and township boundaries, hills, lakes, farms, etc.) rather than any major projects. It’s actually quite calming to map like that, and I’m left wondering why so many mappers tend to overlook the rural areas in favor of mapping city after city after city (no offense to anyone whose territory is entirely urban, just my opinions).

-Duncan

Hello everybody… I´m working on my first city “Sawanka” (Country=Kalm) First of all… thanks for this very very good map. Finally something, I searched long time to create my own town. But I have a question, it´s a little bit difficult to create an “showable” city, so I´m looking for some tools, who can create cities an little bit easier. If there is some tool or program, let me know it quickly :P Thanks a lot! - Sims

I’m going to look for a different spot and start from scratch

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This is the final result, i am posting it here so you can tell me what shall i fix (or completly delete if needed :/) because i’m pretty new to this (7 days). 7 days of mapping, i changed the language which i used to have here due to it not being any official language of the country i’m mapping in (Gobrassanya, so it’s open-to-all territory) to Ingerish.

EDIT: There might be some scale issues i will want to fix.

O.k. - there are more places in Huntington, where you can go in the evening. But the real night quarter, the red-light district of the town is behind the railway station. In the north the Ispelia Street, east the Gobrassanya Avenue, south the Ataraxia Street and in the west the Kalm Avenue are the imaginaire boundaries of this area. Here the night can be dangerous, sexy, loud and fascinating.

[https://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/-37.6034/157.9145]

Who will map the houses, bars, pubs, music-clubs, cinemas, restaurants and all other features needed in this environment? We need a mapper with advanced skills in city-mapping. If you are interested, please send an inbox-message to Ernestpcosby or me (histor).

Hi all! I’ve got a basic airport sketched out for Seniqe, but I’ve seen some really amazingly detailed airports around the OGF world and am hoping one of you has a special love of mapping these kinds of sites. If you are interested in mapping Seniqe’s airport in detail, please shoot me a DM with an example or two of airports you’ve created in the past. Thank you!

After a several year hiatus, I decided to work in a common area . I figured on building a National Park.

Hello all, I have gotten my own territory. However, there is one big issue: I do not know how to make proper motorway interchanges/junctions, and even normal exits. I know the motorway_link syntax but do not know how to make them look smooth and functional, like this: . I was wondering if there are templates or a guide or something so that I can easily make motorway-motorway and motorway-road T and 4 way junctions. Thanks, ev3commander

Hey everyone,

I would love some feedback on my new sandbox. I’m not sure if I did it right, so I would love some constructive feedback to help me improve the page. While you’re in my sandbox, feel free to check out my first sandbox project!

Cheers, Geoboi

Hello everybody

Somedays ago, i saw the map of languages in the Wiki. Honestly, I didn’t like it because it used points and it was very unaccurate. I had the idea of doing the same thing, but with relations.

It has been difficult because I had to see country by country which language people use there, extract the points of the relations and put it into the map.

I hope you like it: https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Map_of_languages

Furthermore, I realized that there is a very common mistake in a lot of countries: mixing languages randomly. In my opinion, it’s not realistic at all. For example, I saw countries in which there are arabic, hebrew and chinese script in the same city. I think that we should follow the quote “a nation, a country”, or as least, “a country, a language”.

This is the reason why I didn’t add some countries to the map, cause I couldn’t determinate which is the main language of the country.

However, it’s a fact that there are countries where people speak several languages. That happens in the real life. So I recommend you to delimitate the border between those languagues.

That’s only my advice. You are not forced to follow it, but I ask you guys to think about it.

There are a lot of countries in which I didn’t put the language because I didn’t have time enough, so I ask you to add them.

In addition, I’m using the same colours that were used before, and I added the colour Black to rare languages that are spoken in very few countries.

Last January, I started work on a new city named Confluencia.

In Commonia, (of all places) there is a well-mapped and highly-developed [city] (https://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/1.6076/142.2853) also named Confluencia.

Did I subconsciously copy this city’s name, or did it change recently?

You are welcome to apply for, and discuss, OGF:AR001b

“a collaborative territory, which is inspired by the real-world island of Timor (shared between Timor-Leste and Indonesia) The provinces are owned by individual users so long as they agree to adhere to to collective territory goals and coordinate on development:

• Low GDP
• Poor infrastructure
• One major city
• Colonial history: TBD (Portuguese analogue?)
• Languages: TBD; assumed Tetum-analogue, Indonesian-analogue, colonial”

I’ve been working on Seniqe, one of the two major cities along the Strait of Abren in Dematisna, for the past month. While there is still a huge amount of work to be done, much of the city’s historic center has been mapped now (along with the outline for the metro region), so I thought it was time for a proper introduction.

Seniqe is a mélange of influences from Istanbul, Izmir, Barcelona, Seville, Athens, and Algiers. It has a fairly hilly terrain, but the central city is located on a broad, flat plain around Al-Hilal Aleulawi, the Crescent Haven, the body of water that connects the city’s historic port to the Strait of Abren. The ancient walled city was founded around 1600 BCE, and reached its current extent around 500 CE. The city greatly expanded following the arrival of the Castellanese in the 1450s. It continued to grow under colonial control for centuries, and through the strait’s status as an international territory (the Zona Internacional Abreniqe, or ZIA) from 1902-69.

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I have created a lake in north-western Uletha called “Paivat”.

“Paivat” probably means something like “the water of the day” in Läxian language. It may have different names in different languages.

The northern side of the lake is a rocky archipelago (which i am working on right now), streching from east to west. While the southern side is pretty sandy, just like northern Germany and Poland.

Paivat lake is formed by an ancient glacial activity within this area, which created the many lakes, inlets and bogs of Läxland.

Paivat is inspired by the Saimaa lakeland in Finland and the Ladoga lake in Russia. I have always loved the patterns of the nordic lakes and islands, willing to create such natural artwork on OGF.