So I started work on my second country, Terwen, today, and I wanted to know if the block size here is at an appropriate scale? I don’t want to mess up the scale like I did when making Farax.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=19/25.61947/31.94941

Hi, I am trying to edit on Potlatch 2 and I can’t save because of the glitch in the screenshot below. http://prntscr.com/96n4c3 How do I fix this glitch without reloading the page and losing all of my progress?

I’m really bad at finishing things. I tend to map an area up to a certain level and then move on to some other project. Thus there is very little that I consider “complete” in my countries.

I surprised myself over the weekend by completing a major theme park in Palmeras Grises, DS, Ardisphere, to a very high level of detail. It’s sort of based on the US “Sea World” locations, but I made sure to make it different from those parks in layout and detail, too.

Anyway I’m quite pleased with it.

MundoMar!

Happy mapping.

I’ve spent the evening adding some detail and realism to the centre of my capital city, Elmham.

I like to share my work every so often and get some constructive feedback. It’s been a lot of fun thinking on a micro level about the city instead of laying out the streets and transit lines.

So far it’s quite a small area I’ve worked on but it’ll be expanding as I go.

Let me know what you think. http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-36.61761/169.20527

Wesmandy is a small country in northwest Uletha, Ingerish-speaking but formerly Caeltig. It shares the “Dihobarth Peninsula” (formerly Bayland) with Ionadàlba (owned by Udilugbuldigu), and we have already worked on some early history together to explain the peninsula’s demographic make-up.

I’m going to try developing Wesmandy a bit differently from most other OGF countries, by mapping the country “as it happened”, starting in around 1450 and then jumping forward in stages to the present day, producing history and geography together as a coherent whole.

Since Wesmandy is not a huge country I’m hoping this approach won’t be too overwhelming, although, obviously, it will mean that for some time it will look like a “chronological anomaly” in 21st-century OGF. I’ll have to see how the mapping goes as far as the level of detail is concerned, and at times I’m going to have to resist the temptation to modernize places before I’m ready.

I will still put some general modern stuff in the Wiki, but obviously there will be nothing which links to specific map locations (e.g. embassies) until those locations exist; and I don’t want to commit to too much modern detail until the historical background is in place.

I’m wondering what to do with roads on my early maps. For example, do I map main medieval routes as primary roads, even though a medieval primary road will be nothing like a modern one, and may be little more than a dirt track? Or do I leave everything as unclassified until the modern age of road classification? The problem with that is that no roads at all will show on lower zooms.

My initial work on the capital, Eskwick, is here

Comments welcome!

Hello Everybody! Sorry I have been away from mapping for a while, but I am back again!

Farax has a talk page on the OGF wiki now- http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Talk:Farax

If anyone wants to chime in there welcome too!

I edited a section of my country yesterday and the map is refusing to load the content I edited at lower zoom levels, such as on the level of country. Is there a problem with the server at the moment?

This is the area I am talking about. It is refusing to load the new content between levels 7 and 8. Anything below 8 is old data.

Hi, a new capital in Riko is in the development. It is a coastal city, with a canal that reaches to the Central Ocean. I have problem with naming this city. I follow the trend and ask for suggestions for a new name of this capital.

The name has to be english/ingerish, as I have had a colonial past with Ingerland. An easy and fast name (6-8 letters) like “London”, would be perfect but it has to be original. Maybe something referring to the city’s location. However, a too generic name would make it less real. (ᵔᴥᵔ)

(don’t mind if the new coast isn’t updated ^_^)

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/6.8170/57.7349

The vote is ON for naming the oceans and new continents!

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The third largest city of my country was called “Pern” so far, which I never really liked, because it sounds like a stupid mixture between “Bern” (capital city of Switzerland) and the Russian city of “Perm”.

Now I have renamed it to “Preburg” (at least within the wiki), which sounds nice, I think - but it’s a quite boring name. So: do you have any suggestions for a nice German name for the city? I want “P” as the first letter. :) The rest is completely open. But it has to be a nice name, adapted to an important large city with almost 2 million inhabitants.

Thanks for your proposals!

I feel that I can still change the city name because I have only drawn some basic features yet.

Best regards joschi81

For some reason an entire section of beach in Vandover just stopped rendering. It’s still there properly in the editor, but it wont show on the map. Other beaches around it work just fine. Any idea why?

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=14/-2.7951/-2.4772

Hello all,

Sorry for the lack of progress on the Karolia move and cleaning up its former location. This is coming up to a rather busy time of year so I’m not sure I will have much time for editing for a few weeks, probably until the second/third week of December. I’ve not forgotten what I need to do though.

I did however have time to get some pictures of a little something I created - in real life - during the past holidays. It’s the national football team jersey of Karolia and pictures are here:

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Karolia_shirt_front.jpg http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Karolia_shirt_back.jpg http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Karolia_shirt_montage.jpg

Enjoy! I wish I could make these to order for anyone who wanted one, but I don’t think so. However if you look at my earlier creation, the blue Santjana Linna shirt, there are some instructions on how I did this, so if you want to have a go at your own design…

Here are the names I’m considering so far:

• Easterland (it is on the east part of Archanta)
• The Sand Republic (since the beaches seem to be the most prevalent feature so far)
• Pinkland (in the vein of Greenland, Iceland, etc in the real world… no real basis for it, and a bit off-the-wall)

Any other ideas? Are these all usable names? Do they all stink?

The map has a new rendering. In general, it appears as though every road has moved up a level in color. My city is composed of mostly tertiary roads, and it looks ugly with this rendering. Is there a setting to change how it looks?

Igwepir was one of my first cities. You all said that I started it well.

Now I’m working on the city, especially focused on trams. Originally, it had 1 way for 2 team tracks and 1 node for the whole intersection. A while ago, I started studying maps of German cities and their tram networks, and since Reeland should be a lot like Germany, I tried modifying and expanding not just trams, but the whole city, to look like a German city.

Major changes are:

• every tram track is a separate way

• many more avenues (dual carriageway streets/streets with a median) and less normal roads

So, what do you think?

I am going on the mapping process of two cites :

Belleville (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/-17.5823/20.7416) where i redesigned the southern and eastern district to make it more realistic. The city also has a metro network of 4 lines. When finished it should be a 1 million inhabitants city.

Troie (http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/-17.8392/21.4234) now has an international airport and a new harbor. I try to keep the topography realistic which is the hardest ! The mapping of the two there cities in the Troie metropolitan area should start soon (Charleville and Sansévérina).

Each city has now its wiki page which i’ll try to complete.

Thomas

Please feel free to add your country’s embassy in Carispoole the capital of the small island nation of Samiloor.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/5.35555/95.75742

Should draw 2 tram tracks next to each other be drawn as one? On OSM they’re usually drawn separately and in the OSM wiki it says “In some places each tram tracks is mapped separately and in some places two tracks are together mapped as a single railway=tram line.”

So, what is more convenient in your opinion?

In response to my last diary entry, I have successfully found a path for the Line 4 branch. To be called Line 12, it will run along line 4’s tracks from downtown Quentinsburgh out to the Eastbrown turn, then it continues straight into Northcross following the BRT route, and eventually merging with line 3 tracks in Northcross itself.

However, it may end up with a unique type of service. Line 12 is being considered as the first ever line that runs fully express from downtown to the branch off from line 4, then running local to the end.

Why? Well, Line 4 is one of the few lines with express service from downtown Quentinsburgh. However, on the section closest to downtown line 4 runs with line 2, both very busy lines running local. If line 12 was added running local, the local tracks would likely be overcrowded in downtown. By allowing line 12 to be express only within most of the urban area, line 4 gets more express service and line 12 doesn’t overcrowd.

This is the biggest change in the QUARTA system since the line 1-line 7 switch.