Hello everyone,

I’m writting this post so I can let everyone know that during these next days I am making myself available to cooperate with anyone who wishes to complete a project, or start a new one! If it is to fasten your country formation process, to add information about certain topics or creating a language, I can help you with that. In these times of social distancing, the more time I spend doing nothing, the more unuseful I feel. I would like to contribute with my help and knowledge in some areas if you wish and feel confortable doing so.

This includes things as:

1. Mapping on OpenGeoFiction;
2. Making vector images of flags, coats of arms, logos, etc.;
3. Producing content for the Wiki page;
4. Producing stories and themes for your country;
5. Creating diagrams and maps for national and/or local transit systems such as metro, highways, rail, etc.;
6. Anything else.

Feel free to contact me via messages or my direct email: dpcosta.11@gmail.com

Obrigado!

P.S.: If you want to make yourself clear and question me anything, also feel free to contact me!

I don’t know what I did but the coastline is flooding. The coastline points the right way as intended. Maybe I deleted a point which was on a way connected to it without thinking about it.

PHEW: Nevermind… It was on the other side of the continent. I thought i deleted something by accident.

I have made several attempts to fix the same area as I posted in my last Diary, and nothing happened. I have never fully grasped the concept of multipolygon relations ( considering I primarily use iD). But what I want to know is the relation between inner/outer, and clockwise/counterclockwise. This might fix the problem, but it may take more time to figure this out. Could I please get some basic knowledge on multipolygons to make things look more realistic? (I also use Potlatch 2 as well)

Hey guys I have a question.

Since I now have a country with an Asian theme, I am curious to know what I can use to develop my own alphabet that can represent an Asian-esque language. Does anyone know a good software or online thing?

I tried making a mountain sketch and this happened:

This:

I was editing in Potlatch 2 and was making a mountain sketch, I want the little forest icons to only appear in the forest. What do I do?

Hello all. Here’s a formal request calling for production companies who wants to set up their overseas operations in Vang Ngat, Kuehong, which is the economic powerhouse for the country. If you want, do a somewhat mini-advert in the comments!

Operations can be for assembly, manufacturing and/or maintenance. Transportation links (rail and road) will be provided the sites proposed, if they have not yet been mapped.

This is a call specifically for some manufacturing industries, like electronics, locomotives, aircraft, ship building, automobile, which can provide for both military and civilian use. The Kuehongese military will be glad to welcome companies able to help develop its military for further peacekeeping purposes.

Places and sites may be limited, so other companies, which may not be able to get a place in Vang Ngat, will get another site somewhere else in Kuehong. Successful companies will be notified via DMs. You can propose a site or request me to arrange for you one, and also state whether you are able to build one in Kuehong or require me to build one myself.

If you have any further questions, also place in the comments and I will answer them.

Hello everyone! I need some technical help.

As a lot of my work on OGF is a copy of what I map on paper (which I personally find a lot more convenient), I am looking for a way to extract information from JOSM to get a file that I will be able to put on a program and print.

For example :

I would like to extract the relation of Egani’s boundaries and coastline. Then I need to find a program to make a very high resolution image (tens of thousands of pixels) of the data with lines. After that I may print a very big paper representing the data and work on it with pens and pencils.

Problems : - I Don’t know how to extract the data that way - I Don’t know which program to use to represent the relation on very high quality - Am I using the right technique to reach my goal?

I have no idea if what I want if possible, I cross fingers. If you have other ideas, I will be happy to hear them.

Thank you in advance!

clik

This started off as a response to Yuanls’ recent diary (which I agree with wholeheartedly), but figured it was worth making a separate post.

Mapping improvement of any serious scale, especially for existing mapping is generally contingent on willingness to accept tips and feedback. I think a lot of the mappers who have been here for a while, including myself, are sometimes tempted to just blame new mappers for conflicts and a lack of receptiveness, but to be honest, in most cases, a lot of this is really contingent on how they’re approached. While I 100% agree with Yuanls that we need to focus on fixing the front end in the expectations of new mappers, I also personally think all more-experienced mappers active in giving advice to newer mappers need to become much better at constructive criticism so that we’re able to properly encourage newer mappers to improve rather than to fight us or to want to leave the site.

To be completely honest, the average critiquing style on OGF can often come across really toxic and condescending at times, which only grows the issue. Frankly, in addition to tweaks on the new mappers side, an “OGF:How to Give Constructive Respectful Feedback and Advice” page is probably in order for the older/more senior mappers here.

I’ve discovered even myself just these last couple months that a lot of newer mappers that can seem standoffish if confronted in an antagonistic manner are more than willing to take advice and tips if given directly, kindly, and with encouragement, acknowledgment of areas with potential, and respect. If our response to newer mappers is basically “your mapping is crap and you should feel bad”, of course their response will be a defensive one rather than receptive. We don’t want that. The spirit of the OGF experiment is one of collaboration and respect- and that spirit won’t thrive, or frankly, survive, if we don’t know how to approach mappers respectfully when giving feedback or advice.

After the previous diary post, I have decided to compile my thoughts and ideas on interface changes that may help to better introduce and inform new OGF users.

Problem 1: The way OGF presents itself

When a new user visits the OGF site for the first time, a box appears. This box introduces OGF at a conceptual level, but no deeper.

OpenGeofiction is a map of an imaginary world, created by a community of worldbuilders. You can take part in this project too.

You are then presented with two options: to ‘start mapping’ and immediately sign up and begin, or to ‘learn more’ and read the FAQ page. The FAQ page, I will address later.

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I have invited 1 person this month and they’ve edited randomly even though I told them to edit in the blue nations in OGF: Territories, I want to know how to introduce people to OGF without them vandalizing a country as soon as they join.

Almost done mapping most features

I read all the FAQ and haven’t gotten a reply yet. How long do these take to process? I had a previous territory which expired so I’m not new to OGF and use the JOSM to edit most of my new stuff. I apologize if I don’t understand something or taking some of your time.

So… What are your plans on OGF now that everyone has got more time on their (washed!) hands? I plan to keep myself busy with loads of detailing on the island I’ve worked on, maybe rearrange some parts a bit. Add details like trees, benches, mailboxes, stores and facilities, take a good luck at the road network and if any logic mistakes like wrong directioned one-way streets happened. Gonna see if I get to do any real progress now. Maybe lay out some rough sketch of history/placenames etc. aswell. And you?

Stay safe folks!

There’s a straight line road going through Oketia. When I zoom in in ID it won’t actually show up to be deleted, just in the background. It’s been there for weeks so certainly not an update delayed. How on earth am I supposed to delete this eyesore if I can’t select it.

Hey everyone,

Hope you are all doing well in this crazy time. I just had a fun idea for a game someone could make with our world map. This link has a fun clickable map quiz of the real world. I was just wondering how feasible it would be to make one of the OGF world. Any ideas?

Hi!

After a four-month absence, I am pleased to return to OGF.

Last time I mapped, I was working on an airport as a side project to a lake. However, I may just want to start over in a different part of Commonia.

I hope in the coming days, I will be able to download JOSM on a new computer, and work hard on some countryside in order to, after almost a year and a half on this site, claim a territory. (I’m thinking any green or maybe yellow ones in this area.

During my hiatus, I have been able to draw a few paper maps during my spare time, and perhaps I would use some of them in my work on OGF.

Thanks for reading!

Inventor

I have put a high density of towns and villages south of Marvin and hope to do the same for all rivers and lakes, and slightly less dense for the rest of the country. We need dense countryside seeing as our population is 23,000,000 in such a tiny country.

This is a country idea that I feel like I’m not going to be able to create for a while because I have another country idea that I like a bit more that I want to develop before this one, and you can’t really have two territories without developing the first one.

I still want to write this down because I still want to see it happen, and I may either use it later or hopefully inspire somebody to make it if they don’t really have any ideas.

Dedos Piedra

Dedos Piedra is a group of small five islands initially colonized when that was the cool thing for a country to do. The Island had very little worth as either a plantation or a port, since the soil didn’t grow much on the primarily rocky islands and it was very isolated.

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Given that Gobrassanya is mainly influenced by Asian and European characteristics, would a town based similarly off Macau (mostly the old areas) fit into Gobrassanya?

Hello everyone. I have this idea for beginners in OpenGeofiction that when they first create their account, they get shown a tutorial. This shows them a few rules, a little info, and a map with the blue territories in them. I hope this makes it clear for them on how OGF works without having to click on the wiki which they probably don’t know too much of. I hope this reduces the risk of out-of-the-blue mapping and reduces i-don’t-know beginners.

This video/gif shows how I would imagine doing such a thing. I hope it proves much help. I’m up for creating it.