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In Point Fern I’ve started to think my scale is too small , so i checked on scale tool and saw that my buildings were tiny and started to rebuild but this envolved more deleting than anything else and i’m wondering wether my new scale is right or not
Point Fern is a English / Arabic Metropolis , stealing the state name of Point Fern, which is Cygagon’s capitol .
First off: I really want to express my thankfulness on Histor’s work on it’s own Histor style map. But that being said, I also want to open a debate on the style itself and which direction it could go, which might be controversial: what about a complete overhaul of the Histor style based on the current standard mapnik style? Back in the days, I assume Histor style used to be a derivative of the then standard mapnik style, but with extra features such as ports, railroad differentiation, i.e. all things the standard map style lacks. But then the standard style had a complete redesign, and the Histor style didn’t follow and kept the old style. And now, Histor is editing the style to fix the problems the old style had, and which is exactly the reason why mapnik itself changed to its new style too. But the problem with that is, with all respect, the current Histor style seems a bit… amateurish. And that’s normal, because the new standard mapnik style probably took a ton of work by a lot of different people to get at the point it is now.
Here we have some new road-colours - and not more this “not to see”-green for the trunk-roads, if the road is between green landscape. Is this new “#ff69be” (in the colour-table named as “hot pink”) too much hot? May be we can make it a little bit lesser dominant. Primary now is “#ffa501” and secondary “ffff01”, which means nearly plain yellow. The colour of motorways (blue’) and tertiary and lesser roads and pathes are unchanged.
Sure there is some smoothing-work to do (the ref-shields and some pieces over bridges).
The garden-pattern has now colour #77e72f as iiEarth has suggested.
Next step will be a seperate colour for freight-railways. We already have blue for subways, green for commuter-rails, red for hi-speed trains. Can we drop the green for the commuters and use it for freight-rails or did you think, we need a seperate colour for both? And if yes, which?
see [https://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/-37.7101/161.0754&layers=H] as test
Hi everyone,
even if my city is not completely mapped yet, I invite anyone interested in placing the embassy for his/her Country. I’m not planning to create an “embassies quarter” quarter, so feel free to place it wherever you like in the city (just keep them in the central quarters, please). You can freely choose to use an existing building or map a new one.
I only ask you to write here what you are doing, just to keep trace of your work.
In the meantime, every feedback about my mapping of the city would be appreciated.
Happy mapping!
I was working on harca and looking around and noticed it was renamed to trifinia for some reason. I don’t know how to rename it and am just wondering why it was renamed. hope this is the right place to post this.
I need your help, I got stuck with 200+ objects in conflict with my previous upload, for unknown reason. Now I have a large upload I want to send, but JOSM is blocked because of the conflicts. Is there a way to solve them all and tell JOSM “just send my version of everything and overwrite” ? I don’t want to lose my mapping but I just can’t solve conflicts one by one.
Or is there another solution like deleting the whole zone (let’s say a city), upload it as deleted, and re-copy-paste the new data from my faulty OSM file ?
What is the most practical solution to deal with huge amount of conflicts ?
I thought these colour-coded maps may be worth a share, particularly if your street organization happens to be all over the place at present. For one thing you can see the logic used behind certain terms like “Drive”. Also it would be interesting to create some areas within a city with different naming systems, possibly to reflect historical growth and influences.
https://erdavis.com/2019/07/27/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities/
https://erdavis.com/2019/09/20/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities-worldwide/
There are of course more examples that can be found with online searches.
Hey guys,
so I’ve just made these islands in the middle of the Cruzando delta. I’ve done my best on these, but they still don’t really look like anything you might see in real life. Does anyone have any advice on how to spruce them up a bit?
It is some years ago, the histor-style is changed the last time. So now let us have an update. First the firmland gets a colour more bright, because with the past colour the map looks too dark. Gardens get an light green. Some new symbols (doctor, veterinary, craftsman) will add to the symbols and in next time some other will be added - mainly in connection with the shipping-lines.
The zoo-symbol is changed (not more the elephant, but a catpaw - from a lion :-) ). Nevertheless I am not sure, if this is the best soloution - may be better is an abstrat pattern (green with points?). We will see.
The green of the trunk-roads is no good colour for this highways. I think, a light blue is better - or darker red? What do you prefer?
In the past some user ask me for a special colour or marking for railway-tracks only for freight use. We have in the histor-style red for the hi-speed rails, green for commuter-rails, blue for the subways and other rails are gray (see here [https://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/-13.5752/39.6951&layers=H]). What significant different colour may be perfect?
I’ve seen something weird go on with the site. I can’t load any of the tiles, which is a big issue because I wanted to work on my OGF territory. I know some people in the unofficial discord having problems with this, but nobody has reported on the user diaries. I hope this gets fixed somehow, because people need to see the OGF map.
Hello to all OGF members. It is a pleasure to greet you in this year 2020.
I regret to inform you that I will rebuild Trinity Island, at my own discretion. I am looking to give you a more New England style, comments are welcome.
I also accept that you give me suggestions, plans for the area and others.
Happy mapping - Mapping Expert
After many years in which the number of my geofictional projects steadily grew (I have several more outside OGF) and the available time I have for them slowly decreased, I decided that I needed to do some cleaning and rearranging, so 2020 is becoming the Year of the Broom.
For OGF this meant that I wanted to focus on one territory instead of two remote and unrelated ones, and perhaps having a smaller total of land would help too, so I proposed to the admins to swap places and abandon my SW Archantan country Xsegunis (formerly Řots) in exchange for the often unoccupied UL040 as an expansion of my other country Wyster in Eastern Uletha. This has happened thus.
As for Xsegunis/Řots: I have no idea what will happen to it but if you see it slowly disappearing, it doesn’t mean that I have left OGF myself. I made back-ups of the OGF Wiki pages of these countries btw, so if they need to be deleted, this is now possible.
In the meantime my focus is on expanding and developing Wyster. I already wrote the addition of a piece of land the size of Slovenia (I think) into its history and made a set-up of the new counties and infrastructure. I also decided to use the opportunity to review the grammar of Wystrian; so far nothing has changed but perhaps I will alter the verb system. For the rest I have no big plans.
Good day,
As I’ve wanted to upload my national anthem after seeing that .ogg files are the supported sound files for the wiki, I came across an error after uploading it. It gives an ‘Internal error’ with the body: [2228c731d0c62bd38a1d1408] 2020-01-08 06:52:37: Fatal exception of type “Error”, after wanting to visit either the file (link to wiki) itself or the list of uploaded files.
Hello, there.
I have a proposal for blue countries and wiki article stuff.
Blue countries tend to have a mix of every culture, nearly non-coherent, non-consistent.
Therefore i think we could make them non-canon, and instead for describing specific places included in the blue countries as “fictional” countries. Countries not on the map, but used on the wiki to make things more sense.
Commonia, for instance, is a mix of every native tongue new users have.
This does not make sense if there is a german country describing a chinese district just across the border.
Instead, non-mapped, wiki-filler, and coherent “countries” could be described on the wiki.
After my town of Manniton has been relocated to AR120-33j from what is now AR909, I’ve been fiddling with some infrastructure integration work. I think this has been mostly accomplished by now and I’ll resume focusing on continuing to map the ins and outs of Manniton now.
On that note, I have a few general things I should investigate eventually. Comments and propositions on any of these are, of course, welcome.
That’s it for now. Have a neat 2020, everyone!
– Manny
When I start Adalia I have planned English states at the south and Hispanic states on the north.But the proprietary of Espetrantio,in my south border is mapping in Spanish, while the proprietary of Elixity, in the north one ,is mapping in English. Viewing this situation, it makes more sense have the Hispanic zones in the south and the English at the north. While I don’t have much mapping, if it exists a moment to change the nouns is now.
What do you think? I must change it?
Looks like the newer backup files are severely broken after the date mentioned above, so much so that an attempt to extract Rhododactylia (and possibly quite a few other places) returns a completely empty .osm file. Is this everyone else’s experience as well?
I converted the whole file (from 2019-12-31) and I will see what I actually get, but it is taking a while to load up in JOSM.
Hey everybody in the OGF Community. I have something to propose. Since i wrote a diary about the GauGAN Nvidia software, i recieved a commented which sounded about like this;”We could make an OGF-street view”. I noticed it and it sounded really interesting.
Obviously it would be impossible to streetview all of OGF, it would require software and hardware and is somewhat patented by Google, if I’m not wrong.
So i thought about creating an “OGF:Landview” article on the wiki, so we could put a leaflet “slippy map” on the article and create some dots you can click on which would then show an image of the desired place.
There are already articles with these things, but not the same content, such as the EUOIA article with the dots of capitals of countries.
What do you think, could it be a smart thing to visualize your country?
Feel free to comment
Ok so this may have happened a while ago and I am just oblivious, but has someone split the liberan peninsula into 2?
Hi all,
At the moment I am mapping out a mountainous region of my country and as I was editing a lake with grassland into a large forest area, I exceeded the 2000 node limit. So, I tried to split the forest area into two to reduce to the node count, but I’ve obviously made a mistake and caused most of the forest area to disappear.
This problem has extended beyond my country’s’ borders so I would really appreciate assistance with this and I’m unsure how to correct it.
Regards, Arlo.
