OpenGeofiction
Hello all!
Detailed work continues on my nation’s capital. On the north side of the city, still within the city limits, I have built a mall. The mall has four major stores along the outside. I would love to offer someone the opportunity for me to import a store of another country.
If anyone has a shop (department store or something else) you think would be good for a mall, I would love to import your products and build a store here in my city!
Hi there. I’m still working on Aŭstrasuno Tero. I’ve been modifying the coastline, but OGF lasts too much in update it. Also I had many problems on it, principally with JOSM, which wasn’t updated. I recently updated now. In other hand, there are some glaciers and rivers on the territory. It may look somekind of odd, but its because the coastline isn’t updated.
About the language, I have decided to take two languages for the nation: Mahhalian in the north peninsula and Esperanto (“Esperintish”, trying to figure out in OGF) in the south peninsula. In the middle there should be an status quo between both language, just as happens with spanish and catalan. Not sure if maybe will derive into political troubles, but it is just too early for say that.
It is all for now. I’m still working in new maps.
I made an island but it appears flooded
H Routes are Motorways. H2 H5 H29 H45 H53 H102
B Routes are short Motorways. B1 B2 B3 B25
R Routes are Major Roads mostly other then R1 in Mikehaven witch is a Motorway. R1 R2 R11 R16 R17 R24 R25 R34 R54 R71 R78 R89 R144
J, K, L, N, P, Q, V, W, and X Routes Are Province Roads. J007 J11 J12 J13 J15 J18 K1 K2
Should R1 Be a Primary Road in Mikehaven? It has a lot of Ramps and seems like a Motorway, But it also has some Stoplights. What type of road should it be?
Hi all, I’d like your thoughts on something.
I have at present a motorway going from the south-west corner of Karolia, near Gorjee/Samacja up to the north, designated the A7. The road serves the towns of Masval and Lors and then state capital of Riispere, also an important tourist centre. My question is, should the motorway continue north? Although not the highest part of the Taamras mountains, the area is pretty undulating, has a lot of lakes and rivers, many natural landscapes and national parks, and isn’t particularly populated. Arguments for the road continuing are that the area is a big tourist attraction, and ski resort, and that Karolia needs a main road link to the country to the north, which could be reached through a tunnel or pass. Many alpine countries I’ve visited do have motorways in high-altitude and remote areas (ie the ‘Autoroute Blanc’ from Lyon to Geneva) but these are connecting main cities. As Zanyzzix isn’t very developed, I have no idea what I might be connecting north of the border.
Options I’m considering are:
It’s hard to make lines connect and stuff on mobile how can I make it easier
I need some Railway Suggestions because so far my railways have been not so good. I’m working on a railway called Link Intercity Rail Witch will have characteristics like Amtrak IE; Intercity, Underfunded, Underused, Expensive, Mostly Diesel, Not many tracks and underused. I also have the main rail line and some fright and abandoned rail lines.
How Does this Interchange Look? How Should I Improve it?
How close should my Military bases be to Urban areas? one of my Military Bases is close to a Urban area but should i move it?
I’m making A parkway with very short ramps witch will be at every other or every third street, this may sound like to much but the parkway will be in a rural area with not very many roads. Allso The ramps may be short but the parkway is supposed to be old and will not be up to freeway standards.
I’ve came up with my highway system 1 or 2 digit H roads are limited access highways B roads are short and parts are limited access but others are not and 3 digit H roads are Connectors. R roads are major roads and roads without a prefix are old roads List of H roads: H1 Border to H2 H2 border to Stamford H5 not done H45 H53 to above Stamford H53 H2 to eastward H102 loops around city B roads B1 B2 R roads R17 R34 R54 Old roads 144
Before Decton gets too big, I just want to check if there is anything to improve about it. Decton is quite an unusual town, as it was is situated on the edge of South Glaster, along the former border with North Glaster, which was just north of the town.
I’ve tried to include a number of historical details into my mapping: look at Luxen Street, Decton Middlepass or Peters Road, for example. I’ve attempted to draw road layouts consistent to British timeframes e.g. the straight grids for the early 1900s and the concentric curves for the ‘postwar’ housing developments, along with patches of denser, modern housing built on former inner city industrial land, south of the town centre. There is also a retail park and a light industrial estate built on the site of a railway yard and engine sheds in the south. Of course, it’s far from finished, but this list also serves a reminder for me when I get round to writing its wiki article.
What do you if your neighbor drives on the other side?
| Between 1820 and 1960 the islands of Kėzėpölān (also known as Pėzėpölān, Pėzėkölān, Pĕzepŏląn, | . | .///…////-// etc.) exported up to 500,000 tonnes of slate per year. The geology of the islands provides abundant deposits of high quality slate. This slate was exported around the world for use in roofing and stonework. Price for the exported slate was negotiated on a barter system, although foreign currencies were also used. Export was direct to ports on the Asperic Ocean, but overland trade to countries futher afield and onward shipment may have also taken place. The export was co-ordinated by the Ingerish Slate Company Ltd. until 1870 and by the Kėzėpölān Slate Co-operative from then on. The deposits were finally exhausted in the 1950s, by which time much of the main island had been quarried away. |
I am hoping that countries around the Asperic Ocean would have been part of a trade network linked to this. Knowing which countries might have been involved would allow me to introduce a way in which immigrants came to the islands and work out how their culture developed. The map is blank at the moment (i.e. showing the situation before major quarrying), but the islands are in development.
Also, perhaps note that the World Championships in stone-skimming have been held on the islands since 1904. Join the trade network and give one of your citizens a chance of victory in them!
Best wishes to you all Udi
I am working on a large city based on Chicago IL, New York NY and Stamford CT with 45 streets that are numbered and 16 Avenues numbered that will be a huge city when I’m done, I’m all so working on a highway system for that part of the country.
We should have a map pin for Border posts, or are the borders open?
I used a regular map point to add the borders like in here: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/1.3560/57.4085
Hi again. I’ve been working on the planning of the geography in AN150k. But first, I’ve been decided a name: Aŭstrasuno Tero. Which means Land of the south sun in esperanto. The country will be esperanto-based, which it could be an isolated languaje for the OGF universe -or I don’t know if there is another one which is using this idea-.
Hey there, maybe someone could give me a quick tip how to fix this issue?
I’ve downloaded the most recent OGF-backup, and cropped it with osmconvert to make some edits to Kojo’s railway network. So as usual I selected “13b”, to convert to .osm and keep ways and areas that go across the cropped area. When I opened the resulting file in JOSM however, it only showed point; ways and areas inside the selected area weren’t shown, however ways that DID go across the border for some reason showed up, see first picture:
As you can see the filter in JOSM is turned off. To test whether the problem might have been related to osmconvert, I directly exported a small area from the OGF map. When opening that chunk of data in JOSM, I get the result you can see in the second picture above. Ways etc. are shown, however they all look the same and are indistinguishable from another.
It might be important to mention that I use a new PC, and therefore had to install all tools mentioned above anew. Anyone who know what the issue is, and how I can resolve it? Thank you in advance :)
Earlier today we had some down-time… I’m not sure why but it seems to have recovered.
Since I had planned on working on OGF during that time, I started messing around with my most recent downloaded backup file (dated 12/31).
There are some interesting utilities that can be used to manage OSM data offline, in order to get manageable data sets in OSM format (or other formats). The two tools I use all the time are osmconvert and osmfilter.
OSM format files can be edited in JOSM and uploaded later, but these utilities have other abilities too.
Out of curiosity, today, I decided to get some statistics on our current OGF map, and make comparisons with my country, Ardisphere (abbreviated FA). I made two OSM files - one was for the entire OGF planet and the other was using my FA polygon file (.poly) which gives me a .osm file limited to my country’s borders (roughly).
“Wow,” I thought. That looks like the Ardisphere, a relatively tiny country (about the size of Uruguay) on the world map, accounts for 15% of OGF’s data volume. I guess I’ve drawn a lot of nodes! I’m nowhere close to finished, either.
As a point of comparison, OGF’s entire Western Hemisphere, where only vandals and admins dare map, is approximately 65MB.
As another point of comparison, the REAL WORLD .osm file is 46 GB, so our imaginary world has less than 10% of the data. Meanwhile, Uruguay’s .osm is 342MB, and Switzerland’s is 3.6GB. Hmm. Ardisphere has twice the data as its real-world counterpart, while tinier but well-mapped Switzerland is almost the size of the entire OGF planet.
Both of the files I made, OGF.osm and FA.osm, are much too large to edit in JOSM - my desktop computer will crash on .osm files larger than about 100MB. I have other polygon files of smaller areas for if I’m making an extract for editing.
