I have followed up with some additional thought about this challenge in my bliki.

I rememebered yesterday a page on the wiki or an article on the User Diaries that gave a bunch of country names and said if they were relevant on the world or not, and also a sample sentence like “Spiders? We have them, but we don’t care”.

I can’t find it!!

I guess that’s the message subject will have an idea of the problem … This morning I made some changes in Port Elizabeth this. Everything seemed right, but I reentered this afternoon to do other editions and have found that my island was being flooded. I tried to find out what happened, but what little they do find the node that I think causes the problem: http://opengeofiction.net/node/37362329 part of the route http://opengeofiction.net/way/4608024 and http://opengeofiction.net/way/3964312

Uletha is flooded again. Using the very handy coastline info map I think I’ve found the problem, which is located in Raiden along this stretch of bridge here. Before any changes are made, can anyone back me up on this?

I am inviting you to contact me (message/comment) if you would like to have a direct ship line to the port of Norfield, port that connects Montran with the rest of the world.

Just write name and coordinates of your port and I will do rest of the job (drawing line…)

William

Just a small sidenote- huge thanks to Azaz 0913 and Bstn for creating the railway line template. It’s one of my favorite features on Wikipedia and I’m so glad we have it here now. Keep up the good work, gents!

:( Isolated by a vast wilderness of micro states and quiet neighbors, with a history that is now partially a fairy tale.

Using the power of MS paint, screenshots and the bucket fill tool, I have assembled a map of the entire OGF world.

What is it?

It is a very large map of the available OGF world on ‘standard’ layer, taken at zoom level 4.

Can I use it?

Yes you can. You do not need any permission. If you want to update the map for a new country or changed borders, ask me please. I don’t want any portions misaligned!

What is it for?

I would think this would just be for general reference, country size comparisons and draft maps for very large features like mountains or international organisations.

how many people do you think realistically would live in stamford

Does anyone have problems deleting or editing existing stuff? Both in iD and Potlach I can’t delete or e.g. change the size or form of structures… I can add new things though… O.o

Is anyone else having problems editing existing roadways in iD? I hover my mouse over a section, and the properties area on the left fills in, but if I click, and move my mouse to the properties panel, the properties panel goes back to its default state.

For my challenge last month, “Let’s do something blue,” I think I did pretty well. Mostly, I’m proud of the Irhoborin Refugee Settlement, in Duvar, Commonia. I also did some work on administrative divisions in various blue countries, and I laid down a first draft for the Kshang Native Lands Area in Rhododactylia - but that last still needs a LOT of work.

How did you do? I saw some people doing some great stuff in blue areas this past month.

Actually, the main thing I worked on this past month has been my little city-state of Tárrases. I will post about that separately, at some point.

Thinking about names

I wasn’t sure what to make as a challenge this month. So I decided to just think about what I would be working on.

For me, names on a map are important. Nothing is more disappointing for me than to see an area that looks well-mapped, realistic, and interesting, only to zoom in and find that most of the streets and other objects have no names attached to them. It detracts from the realism of the map, and makes the whole thing feel more like a kind abstract art that happens to be map-like. I know names are not interesting to everyone - if names are not your thing, then this challenge is not for you.

I try very hard to name things on my maps as I build them, but I’m certainly not perfect in this respect. Sometimes my names can become repetitive or unimaginative - but sometimes names in the real-world are repetitive and unimaginative, too. How many places bear the name “Washington” in the US? 100s if not 1000s. How many places bear the name “Santa María” in Latin America? How many places bear the name “Gwangju” in Korea?

Anyway, the challenge this month is to try to increase the number of names on your map, and improve the quality, consistency and “story” behind your naming schemes, whether based on real-world languages or your own invented language.

“Name Density” - toward an objective measure of map quality

… See full entry

After reading your feedback from my last user diary’s entry I decided to cleanse my country and start to work from the beggining. If anyone’s interested in following the progress I’ll link the map below. As of right now I’ve started placing forests in the eastern portion of the country, albeit without much detail at the moment.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/19.0050/31.7285

P.S: The map may be bugged due to the massive deletion, but once you zoom in you can see the new stuff to the east.

Hello fellow people, Is there anything comparable to the ,,Seven Wonders of the World’’ or the modern wonders? Just asking out of interest, that could be interesting to come up with. Happy Mapping kingfries

News from our glorious leader TRJ!

Despite the grave atrocities of the imperialist new mappers, resulting in the flooding of our fine world, the mighty dikes of Alfenschem, constructed under the guidance of our supreme leader, took on the wall of water with ease, protecting our grateful citizens. This feat of engineering shows once more the might of Forrintian Juche thinking, and the foresight and shining brilliance of our great leader. Our vengeance will be swift and merciless. Fire will rain down on your ill-constructed cities, cities devoid of the love of our most esteemed leader. The power of Forrintia will blossom for a thousand years.

-Comrad BartLeDuc, editor-in-chief of Democratic People’s Republic of Forrintia News Agency

(Peeps, there is some flooding again…!)

It looks like Commonia is flooded again. I think I may have done it this time.

It happens frequently, especially in urban areas. Sometimes It won’t even let me upload any data at all, and I feel like it doesn’t matter what computer I am using.

I mapped a big number of island on a lake in Vinnmark, but when I’m going to upload the changes, a weird error message pops out.

“OSM server does not know about an object that you tried to read, update or delete.”

I don’t know what’s wrong with that but I worked hard on it.

What can I do?

Hey guys,

I am currently writing a wiki article for my finally finished city of Alfenschem. I have spend a lot of time working on it and I am looking for a fitting sibling city. The ideal sibling city for Alfenschem would be several centuries old and have (some remainig parts of) a city wall or other fortifications left and would be relatively small (Alfenschem has around 46.000 people living in it).

Alfenschem guarded the confluence of two rivers in previous centuries, so another city with a military or trade-hub history would be fun.

Do any of you have a (small) city that (partially) matches this discription and that is still looking for a sibling city, let me know.

Thanks in advance and happy mapping!

TRJ

Hello again everyone. I really appreciated the feedback I got on my last post about my central railway station and now I have redesigned my airport and need some input again. I know a lot less about airport design than I do about railway stations.

Wiki article

Dunwic Flyhthæfen International

Before today Myrcia had a huge airport which I built thinking it would be a regional hub but, realistically, I think it was over optimistic and so I decided to start over again. You can see here the difference between the two airports:

I hope this new airport is a more realistic size. I’ve also improved the transport links, simplified the motorways and re-routed some of the railways.

Let me know what you think