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The way I started the process with this crater is by taking inspiration from a real crater, particularly the image in the bottom right.
This, by process of using the threshold effect on gimp plus some additional drawing, we get this image which forms the base of the crater.
Often, mappers are advised by admin to use OSM as inspiration for their work.
So naturally, some of us might gravitate towards the more extreme or interesting examples of real world mapping, like this.
One thing that this, and many other weird examples of mapping have in common is their location - China.
As it turns out, every map of China is geofiction - by law ! According to Article 61 of The 1992 Mapping and Survey Law of the People’s Republic of China, any surveying or mapping of mainland China is illegal without specific authorization from Beijing.
So bottom line, anything you see in China on OSM, Google Maps, or any other map, is unreliable unless you confirm it with an outside source.
What complicates things is that some of the more extreme stuff is real. For example, this 33-km bridge over the open sea is real because it leads to this real port (though I can’t confirm if the mountain in the middle is real).
The good news is that we can still use Dubai for inspiration.
Maybe.
Hello to all users.
In the first instance, I want to apologize to the admins for causing a break in the rules and violations of the code of the blue countries.
Second, I wanted to declare that the project is temporarily suspended and that everyone is asked to reverse its editions (and possibly those of the others).
I must declare that I presented this proposal with the sole purpose of switching to Phoenix, and doing a good work for OGF. But, now I have caused a lot of work to the admins and I feel a great discouragement.
For now, I will be working in my territory. I’m not sure it’s coming for me, but I’ll keep a low profile.
Mapping Expert
Hello to the whole community.
It is a great pleasure to greet you all. This time I want to tell you about Phoenix, Mecyna. Since I started mapping in OGF I have seen the blue countries and I notice that there is a lot of incoherence (which is understandable), but something that really worries me is the capital of Mecyna for this reasons:
Although I don’t feel it as a priority, I think that the capitals of the blue countries should serve as an example for the mappers in those countries (like the beautiful example of Gobras City) and that’s why I want to share it with the community to try to “ improve it together. “
My suggestion for the community would be to create an English version of Panama City here (since this city and Phoenix have many geographical similarities), with certain changes (the most important change is the language …) to improve the appearance of the city . Or maybe another example city?
I want to know your opinions.
Happy mapping - Mapping Expert
I have decided that that will be my theme for my nation. What are the physical themes for this area, like roads, building size, etc. and what features are most common in these areas? What are some of your observations.
After Wyster’s recent expansion I ended up in discussions with neighbours about the creation of transnational trade routes. This lead to the initial mapping of the harbour of Reegyth. One thing lead to another and soon I was doing an unscheduled revamping of the harbour front of Wyster’s original southwesternmost city of Cervirc, giving ferry destinations their own exits, and adding other details. This lead to the recreation of the Central Station area, and before I knew it I was adding buildings to the city, with Aalborg and Copenhagen (Denmark) as well as Halifax (NS, Canada) as examples. I am not unsatisfied with the result.
I can add more detail (hotels, restaurants, shops, more schools, etc) and I plan to change other things in Cervirc (some items I mapped a few years ago already when I was still new on OGF), but now my eyes hurt so I should work on something less detailed first :)
It’s been just 5 days after i started OGF and loved it.
I’ve helped 4 other mappers become good mappers ( I Could help you , just message me)
Mapped out Cygagon , with Point Fern( Giant Rehaul Underway) , Ahnvore County, Burnieside-Devonport , Va’Anu , Keygate , Corbinwater and helped out on many others
This is not a feedback entry , so NO FEEDBACK , good or bad
Question :
Can you import OSM building and change the shop? It seems helpful for making realistic-shaped buildings or houses Is it against the rules to do that , because it is with Islands?
Let us have an eye to the buslines - like here [https://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/-37.79534/161.03272&layers=H]
Yes - it is an illegetime child of the streetcar - only in green instead of red. Here you really are mapping for rendering - but you can show your important bus-lines in your city. Name can be given to the line and to the stop. This feature is not foreseen for long-distance buslines from city to city - it is possible, but may be not good looking.
Tagging see [https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Histor-style] Why “railway”? To take a structure, the renderer know. Why “busline” and not only “bus”? To avoid a key-word for mapping, which may be possible in the future by a standard-style.
Canary Corner is kind of my ‘Babby’s first town’. I’ve tried to emulate some towns in the central valley of California, particularly Modesto.
I’ll admit what I’ve produced is honestly only kind of started. I’ve only really finished the downtown area, which is admittedly a lot smaller than what Modesto actually has. My main goal is to finish up the outer areas, where a lot of residential areas are.
I know Adobe is basically killing off Flash and Flash browser support later this year. I wanted to ask, I’d presume it’s not run/coded by anyone on OGF, but do we know if there’s any sort of transition plan for Potlatch 2 or a similar replacement since it basically runs on Flash? I know that some formerly Flash-reliant programs are were switching to HTML or something that is still supported, but I haven’t seen anything like that for Potlatch 2 when I looked it up.
Keep in mind I DO USE JOSM FOR MOST EDITS. So this isn’t the time to respond “you should be using JOSM and you wouldn’t have this problem”. There are just certain functions I find easier to use Potlatch 2 for, especially with quick edits where I can easily compare scale between tabs, and sometimes JOSM snaps to things in a way that can make it harder to get the “loose precision” I need at times. It’s just a nice option to have.
My apologies for yet another diary entry, but I got JOSM, as suggested. Just now, I tried to save it, but it shows this (https://gyazo.com/db403bcaaff9e74798dd1af33cffa632). Any idea how to fix it? Sorry for yet another diary entry, but I need help.
Thanks, ~newnw
The admin team would like to remind editors of the territory request procedure at https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Admin_regions
Requests which do not follow the procedure are likely to take much longer to consider. Please help us to help you by making good requests.
Every request this week has failed to indicate the requested territory in the subject line. This makes it hard for individual admins to know if the request is for the continent for which they are responsible.
is there any kind of editor I can use for things like ferry routes and other large-scale things (National parks, large forests, rivers, maybe even some long motorways.) I’m just curious if there is because potlatch 2 doesn’t work for me and (As you probably know) the default one requires you to zoom in to 1,000 feet scale. is there anything I can do to make these things easier?
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.
