http://www.jonathancrowe.net/2014/06/opengeofiction.php

this is from a few months ago. I was surprised to see a screenshot of my little fictional town of Valkaria. I found the comments interesting.

Is “Ingerish” supposed to be the same thing as English in the OpenGeoFiction World? I noticed on the wiki that a lot of countries use it as a regional language, and that on some language pages, when describing words in their own language they “translate” it into “Ingerish” instead of English, even though it really translates into English. I also noticed the actual country of Ingerland on the map, even though it hasn’t been mentioned on the wiki yet. Is “Ingerish” supposed to be the national language of this country, or is it supposed to be a humourous way of allowing English to be used as a language? (As it would be silly to add England as a country in OpenGeoFiction.) Or does this all just have to do with one’s own creativity?

This is cross-posted from the Talk page to my new article on Embassies in the Ardisphere on the wiki:

I decided to make the establishment of embassies collaborative. If you want to locate an embassy in Villa Constitución, please look through the list below and choose an unoccupied embassy (marked “Embassy for Sale”). You can link through to the map to see the location (some locations are better developed than others).

Once you choose your location, you have 2 choices: 1) contact me and I will rename the embassy lot for you and edit this wiki page; 2) you are allowed to go and edit the map within the lot boundaries yourself - it becomes your sovereign territory, after all. Just please be careful about surrounding neighborhoods. Also you may update this wiki page yourself. If you don’t like the locations available, you may send me a note requesting location (specify street intersection or metro/tram station), and tell me approximate lot size (square meters). I will try to accommodate your embassy’s needs.

Hi, guys! My name is Bruno, and excuse my bad English. Im new here and Im still practicing and learning how the things are here, but I can say I`m liking worldbuilding!

For now, I fill some areas like north of Puerto Geo, and Ba, in same area, and I`m thinking some thing in Havanonu Island, at Lonowai Island east side.

What are you thinking? Any advice? I`m in a good way?

Regards! Bruno

It seems that people are not using the diaries as a source for discussion pages as much as before. Maybe we need to look into starting a forum similar to AARoads forum [ http://www.aaroads.com/forum/ ] to facilitate such development discussion in an area that is not appropriate for discussion in the wiki or in these diary pages. Simple Machines is a good forum engine.

I noticed the expected backup file (ogf_140919_1200.osm.pbf) did not appear. Is there a problem? I have been grabbing this file every day as a habit, since I began to do all my JOSM edits “offline” and using the “osmconvert” program to get my extracts (it’s much, much faster than downloading via connection in JOSM or Potlatch).

Speaking of backups, I wonder if backups are made of the wiki, too? If there aren’t, could we look into that? - people have invested a lot of energy and time in their wiki entries and it would be a good idea to keep backups. I’m not sure if this is the right forum for making that suggestion, but thought I would mention it.

(Update: nevermind. I see that updates are ocurring regularly, it was only one missed that happened to be the one I was looking for. )

Hi, I’ve just got my territory (UL203) and I wanted to make big lakes and modifie the coastline to make it more realistic but I don’t know how to make them, for the moment I can just make little bits because I’m using iD… So I downloaded JOSM because I read that it will be easier to make big and long things. I followed the FAQ advices for editing with JOSM on the map but when I select it in the editing options (iD/Potlatch/JOMS) a message appears : editing failed : make sure JOSM is loaded and the remote control option is enabled. I don’t really understand what does it mean.

Do I do something wrong ? Do you have easier ways to make big and long things for my country ?

Some time ago I said I did not know how to claim my territory. It’s been several weeks and now want to claim as mine and one territorio.Todo been editing this time in blue area.

So my question is this: How I can and whoyou I contact for this? That’ll have to ask or tell?

How many rails would be suitable for a railway system about to enter a station? Is one railway way good enough as a rough draft to indicate a railway system, or should there be rows of rails and what are its limits? I’m trying to create my city through my mind and I like to know the accuracy of it.

There could be some questions I like to ask, granted that I’m new to territory creation, so bear with me.

Thank you,

JBStad1

Is there any way to make long stuff like highways, coastlines and lakes faster? All I’ve been doing is continuously dragging a piece of coastline for a very long time to make an inlet, and it still hasn’t gone very far (well, in terms of how big of an inlet I’m making). I’m kind of frustrated with how far you [can’t] zoom out. Is there another way to do this, or is this the only way?

-Asparagus

 Street Grid

The entire city including Streets and avenues have been redeveloped to a mile grid system with 16 blocks per mile (330 feet by 330 feet) (bacically a 1.6km X 1.6km grid with approx. 100m X 100m blocks). Development of the city will continue out towards the airport and along the Gulf Shore. adherence to the grid can be looser the further away from the city center that the city grows.

Major Districts

In addition a new seaport was built to the east of the city, along with a major industrial area just to the west of the seaport. Railways are to be connected to the rest of the network.

Another Industrial District will be built near the airport and also to the west of the Downtown area.

The capitol area has also been constructed

A major commercial district ( Mall, Shopping centers, Retail Big Box) is planned for the area immediately adjacent to Lawrence Parkway and A-602

Airports

The airport has been appropriately sized down to a smaller footprint and 5 runways instead of 6 but maintains the overall layout of the original airport. It is still quite a bit oversized comparative to the size of the city it serves but could be considered a major hub airport for Northern Gobrassanya.

 Motorways and Major Highways

Motorways have also been overhauled as well… A-2 serves the Gulf Front and Downtown.

A-602 (loop - partially completed) connects to the middle of the city.

A-35 was extended northward

A-135 (Airport Link)

A proposal for a new motorway to the weest of the city s also in the works but will be added as development occurs to the west. Recommend using a NP-XX designation for any additional motorways

 Please help

Assistance is needed in further development of the city If anyone wants to add new neighborhoods. Especially south of A-602 and to the East of A-35 and in developing a mass transit system

 Wish List

Development of the shore. Including a major amusement pier concept near Downtown. Possibly including a boardwalk.

I’m here because I have a ‘vision’ that I wish to realise, but I’m finding it very hard to translate that within my head graphically onto the map, and in words/pictures into the Wiki!

I’m very slowly learning ‘from scratch’, but beyond adding some bits of rivers, a large lake, some administrative boundaries, a few islands & coastal edits, plus placing a few-dozen cities/country-names (many which seem now to be ‘lost’) ~ I’ve not achieved anything like what I’ve wanted!

What, how, from whom may I get assistance?

Angus

One year ago today, Opengeofiction was opened as a public website, starting with this post on Johannes’ Urbangeofiction website (awesome site BTW, definitely check it out if you don’t know it yet).

Let me just say a big thank you to all members who have helped to make this such a great project with their contributions. Please keep up the good work! I really hope that many other productive years will follow.

Thilo

Looks like something’s changed with the standard map style - airport runways and taxiways are not being shown?

You see, I recently discovered the existence of this site and found it a wonderful idea. My only problem is I have no idea how to claim territory on the map.

If anyone can help I would appreciate it.

Thank you. Oscar2002

I’m not really sure where else to put this so I’ve just decided to put it here, anyway:

Sometimes when I am either uploading or downloading on JOSM, it freezes on the loading bar and stays there and does nothing. Even pressing cancel does nothing. I just end up having to close JOSM from task manager and start what I was doing again (which is frustrating and takes up time). So I haven’t been able to do much work on the map recently.

Also, this does not happen every time and it doesnt happen in the same situations. E.g It happened just now when I was trying to download a little portion of the map, but when I tried again on the same bit after restarting, it worked as normal.

So I don’t know what to do. Does anyone have any knowledge on this or has had the same problem? Thanks

Proposals for Lonowai Islands development

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=12/18.5299/89.3879&layers=T

Corporate brands:

 Cruise Lines NEW CATEGORY!!!

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_Cruise_Lines

 Hotels/Inns NEW CATEGORY!!!

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_Hotel/Inns/Motel_Brands

 Convenience/Gas: (Alora and Gobrassanya)

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_Gasoline_and_Convenience_Store_Retailers

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_Petroleum_Refining_companies

 Truck Stops and Truck Stop amenities

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_Truck_Stop_Brands

 Fast Food and Restaurants

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:Restaurants

Department Stores

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_Department_Stores

 Industrial and Commercial

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:Industrial_establishments

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:Commercial_establishments#Commercial_Establishments

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Corporate Terminology and legal rules

MCG = legal terminology for “Manufacturing Company of Gobrassanya”

MC(A) = Manufacturing Company (of Alora)

LPC = legal terminology for “Limited Private Corporation” (used in Alora and Gobrassanya) similar to US LLC, Sing. Pte Ltd, or Deutsche GmbH

LPP = “Limited Private Partnership”

LPPC = “Limited Private Professional Corporation” (Medical, Legal and Accounting corps, etc,)

More to come

Due to no reactions on the Talk:Wiki-page I leave an entry here:

I’ve got some wishes for the wiki:

Images from Wikimedia Commons:

I would like to add images from Wikimedia Commons like this:

[[File:Testbild.png]]

Slippy Map MediaWiki Extension:

I would like to use slippy maps in the wiki. (including the different OGF layers) See osm.wiki/Slippy_Map_MediaWiki_Extension for information about the extension.

Is there someone who can add this features to the wiki? - That would be great! Thanks.

Best regards

Oxalia