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Posted by CaboAzul on 25 November 2019 in English.

Was browsing the web and stumbled on an old OGF tab. I decided to try my hand at mapping one more time.

I need help though. Not with mapping, I’m fine with that. It’s about getting a territory. I tried many, many times to request a territory, but the answer was always “keep trying, make it bigger,” etc. etc. Now it has become much harder since the implementation of the new territory system to get a territory. What should I do?

Edit: I just noticed that UL303 has been claimed. :,( Are there any available territories consisting of a small peninsula and some small islands? (Can be anywhere, but preferably around a temperate region). Thanks in advance!

Okay so this is a bit of a stretch, but I need help finishing Ykphane in the lines of Zoning and creating a capital district of the city. Honestly, I would also like help with a larger project that is the coast line of Aracadiana. I’m half tempted to open up my nation to more mappers but I also am scared of losing progress. So if anyone is interested in these following projects please message me:

  • Ykphane (Capital District )
  • H5, H5W, H6, H10
  • Districts/Oblasts
  • Coast Line (More Islands)
  • Villages along Route 41 (Islands)
  • H49 Corridor
  • H7 Northern Terminus near Emedekee Basin
  • Route 27 Removal
  • Route 88 Removal
  • Route 73 / H7 Interchange Removal

…

If you couldn’t tell by the list, I have trouble finishing projects.

Location: Departamento de Santiago, Entrelagos, Tierra Nueva
Posted by Brunanter on 23 November 2019 in English.

I recently built the football (soccer) stadium for a Federal States league team I plan to add for Sierra.

https://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-32.65884/140.76660

It’s presently called the Meadowbrook Park, but wondering if anyone has a business to sponsor it. I like the current name, but it would fit in better like a sponsor name (most U.S. stadiums seem to have one).

Posted by dsilcott on 17 November 2019 in English.

I’ve been trying to get an idea of the potential weather conditions/climate of the southern half of Nova Calabria, specifically, the state of Sotagnà as well as the mountains in Sotagnà and the southern half of the country. Nova Calabria sits just north of the southern tropic, which i’m imagining the entire country would fall into the humid-subtropical (cfa) and maybe a tropical-monsoon climate (am) in the northern coastal areas. My question I guess is how extreme could the weather get? I’m picturing that due to winds and the water, the western half of the area would be slightly cooler;

December - H: 88 L: 75 January - H: 91 L: 77 Feb - H: 87 L: 78 March - H: 84 L:75 April - H: 80 L: 71 May - H: 76 L: 69 June - H: 69 L: 58 July - H: 66 L: 54 August - H: 72 L: 59 September - H: 77 L: 63 October - H: 81 L: 65 November - H: 84 L: 69

and the eastern half would see temperatures an average of 5 degrees warmer on the eastern half. But the reason i’m asking is because humid subtropical has a pretty expansive definition and I have very few nations around me to gauge the temperatures. Lexington Kentucky and Orland Florida are both humid subtropical but Lexington is lucky to see 50 degrees in the january while orland florida is generally in the 60s to 70s during the winter. I have marked specifically the western side of the state and the answers I see will help me decide on the southern half the mountains as well if any form of snowfall would be appropriate in the mountains (not yet mapped as far down in Sotagnà)

Location: Déparmênt Cartiuqhoz, Hmál King, Airannia
Posted by Rustem Pasha on 12 November 2019 in Polish (Polski).

I have a pleasure to announce that AR045 is officially open for new users. Anyone who is interested in taking part in this amazing project may ask for a territory now.

Along with the opening I created the page with submissions for AR045 where all users may propose names of provinces, people and solutions for highway systems. The proposals will be discussed and voted later.

Have fun,

Rustem Pasha

Posted by Volcanizion on 12 November 2019 in English.

So I was looking at Wiesbaden Village and it has buildings and roads in German (or at least based on the language). I think it is good to make this area a sort of the old town of the city. Since Gobrassanya was supposedly colonized by Europe-like countries, it wouldn’t be surprising if Gautig (and the surrounding areas) was colonized by Bloregia, Eäßnordælånd or Eshein. It would be really nice to see the entire area be based off a German city. I wanted to use Qingdao as a basis but there’s not a lot of German influence there, so I think basing it on Munich would be a good idea.

Posted by Lyriax on 10 November 2019 in English.

Hi mappers!

It has been more than half a year since I started to map my territory and when I made a user diary in march where I showcased the early results of my mapping in Valka. There are many new things to show that were mapped in the last 6 months.

Update

  • The city center with the already showcased main station and a pedestrian zone, the government quarter including the parliament, the central park and a royal residence east of St Albert Park

  • A quarter northwest of the main station including a large university complex, some residential mapping and the Valka Zoo (coming soon)

  • A leisure quarter on the south coast including parks, museums, hotels, and other stuff

  • Mostly nature mapping on the island south of Valka including a very natural island, a small town, a village and a larger town (Melston).

  • aaand other stuff including The port of Valka with a large river delta next to it, a nuclear power plant and bits of interesting infrastructure mapping here and there and of course the already showcased airport north of Valka and Mayerstown and the fort!

What’s next?

I’m going to continue on Valka and the core city, will delete parts of the financial center, the fair and trade center and tweak a bit here and there. Then I’ll eventually continue on the island south or wherever I’m interested.

Tips?

What can I improve, add, delete, tweak?! Any tips are appreciated!

Thanks for reading the update and happy mapping!

Lyriax

(Click on the location and zoom out to get a general overview.)

Location: Valka, Greater Valka, TA340
Posted by Volcanizion on 10 November 2019 in English.

So I just came back from a school trip to Bosnia and Croatia in which we went to Split. I noticed that Port Cameron is similar to Split with the general outline of the city.

Perhaps the historic old town can be designed to be like Diocletian’s palace? I’m currently designing the old town area to have a Roman-like area, a Middle ages area, a 19th century area and of course a few more modern bits here and there.

I think the idea of a broadwalk in the downtown area would fit well, what do you guys think?

Posted by Yuanls on 8 November 2019 in English.

While mapping today I’ve noticed something very unusual: every object I’ve edited before this Wednesday is slightly larger than every edit I have made since. After doing some digging in the XML data, the change seems to have occurred at some point on the 6th of November between 11am and 4pm GMT. After doing some physical measurements I’ve discovered the dimensions of every line and every area on the OGF map has physically increased in size by between 6.25% and 8%. The size of objects relative to the scale on the bottom left has stayed the same.

How was I able to find such a small change? I scale my edits by using a transparent plastic ruler - this provides an objective and literal yardstick to which I measure all my mapping against. To put this in physical terms, a row of houses I have mapped should be 8cm wide, but now they are about 8.5cm wide on the map.

Why is this important? Ordinarily a change of 6.25% might not seem like much, but if I mapped a row of 16 houses using my existing measurements it results in a house-sized gap at the end of the road. If I started mapping in detail from the opposite sides of the same street, the buildings would be misaligned in the middle.

Does anyone have any idea if this is an OGF-wide change, or is this something my computer has done itself? If it is the latter, is there any way to revert this change?

Posted by Volcanizion on 30 October 2019 in English. Last updated on 1 November 2019.

Looking at Gobras City, it sort of resembles Tokyo with how it shadows over cities like Ominoso and Margenson. And in Tokyo, there’s a highway way out in Tokyo Bay called the Aqua Line connecting the two sides of the Bay.

So I’m planning to construct a sort-of highway connecting the bay together. Realistically, it would cutdown on travel time between Havreg and Eastern Gobrassanya as it would have to pass through Gobras City (which I would assume has crazy traffic).

This can consist of two bridges with a tunnel in between.

EDIT: PROJECT CANCELLED

Posted by Zhangxi20 on 29 October 2019 in English.

So the main island of Ormeo seems to be a mix of Xiamen Island and Manhattan. I think having different areas with diaspora from other Ulethan nations would be nice. Maybe even a hotel district.

I don’t know what do with Hisbiscus especially since Ormeo will be my base for editing for a while. Any tips? I don’t want to delete it either as I think the creator of the island spent a while making it.