User donnamaw posted something to their sandbox recently:

https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Donnamaw/Sandbox/Tamarindia_OOC

It’s about the origins of their mapping - an OOC discussion of how their geofiction came to be.

It inspired me, and I got quite carried away. I have posted my own documentation of my geofictions over at my blog:

http://blog.geofictician.net/?p=234

I developed a suburb called Honsho. What is your feedback?

The first international airport I finished mapping, Yu Hing Shiu Yi International Airport. Comments are welcome.

Hey all,

For those of you that don’t know, I recently acquired UL022h, now known as Eshemi. I have created a rough sketch of the capital city, Laenjän, which is somewhat modeled after Tallinn and Cluj-Napoca in terms of size. For those of you with well-developed, European-esque cities, how did you develop your city blocks? What is the best way to “fill the space”? Feel free to look in the edit view here to see what I’m talking about. Thanks in advance!

Hi, the following territories are currently marked as reserved in Archanta and I would like to invite expressions of interest in them (individually). This could be a single advanced user, a group of users or an experienced user looking to coordinate a collaborative.

• AR043 (Deodeca) - western neighbour of four states of the Federal States, language would be predominately Castellanese/Spanish with Latin American theme
• AR056g - landlocked, surrounded mainly by Deodeca, Federal States and Ardencia (plus AR056a, AR056c); primary theme would be a majority Native Archantan (Amerindian / Native American) population
• AR063 (Xsegunis) - southern South Archanta, to the west of Ardencia; primary theme would be a majority Native Archantan (Amerindian / Native American) population, with consistency with Ardencia
• AR067 - landlocked territory in North Archanta, with Commonwealth of Central Archanta to the west and Commonia to the north. Southern African theme (e.g. Namibia, Botswana, and Malawi), tying in with the Commonwealth. Some flexibility on the borders.

If any of these interest you then please forward on a more detailed plan for the respective territory to the admin inbox, being sure to put the territory ID in the subject.

Thanks/L

I think it would be great if the direction actually worked. It would be cool to see our roads working for directions.

While initially my plans for Kalijamite were to make it a Yosemite-like national park, some new considerations made me reconsider this plan (particularly inspired by some suggestions by Alessa).

Notably, the fact that a large impact like this often has some very interesting effects on the local area’s ore deposits. Take for example the Sudbury Basin, where large amounts of ores were ejected out from below the earth. This has made Sudbury one of the world’s largest mining centers.

I feel like this would allow for a lot more expansion on the area itself, since mining towns could erupt around the coastal mountain range. This could be a very economically important area.

I’m not sure what to do, but I’ll give this more thought. Suggestions are welcome.

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.

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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:

1. One user (or perhaps several users) created two islands (one artificial? and the other supposedly natural), which look unrealistic in every way and violate the rules of the sea.
2. There are many areas of the city mapped randomly or quickly, which gives it a strange look.
3. An exaggerated network of illogical motorways that seem strange.
4. The airport (which I think has been mapped a long time ago) looks unrealistic and probably violates many ANACA rules.

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.

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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?