I’m looking at my main city, and it appears to me that the hills / national recreation area that I have near my city makes the area I have slated for my downtown pretty dang small. I’m thinking about moving the main downtown area to the east of the Gottlieb river. It seems to me there’d be more traffic over there.

The elementary school I created is potentially too big, so I’m going to reduce it in size, and make it multi floor.

When I laid out the grid system in my city, I used 500 ft as the length and width of an average block. After a while curiosity got the better of me, and I looked up what the size of an average block in the grid-riddled city of Chicago is, and it turns out each side is an average of 660 feet. I’m going to continue to use 500 ft. as the default for my first two communities, but am considering 660 for any future development.

I’m now considering putting some barrier islands along the northern shore of my country, and developing some seaside resort communities there.

I have recently started experiencing a highly irritating problem in JOSM - objects are randomly rotated without my moving them. It appears to be occurring when I switch to another window, and causes massive damage to my map. I have been very careful to check everything is deselected when panning, scaling or rotating anything, yet the problem persists.

Any advice?

Hi all,

I have been experimenting with 3D printing a model of a Karolian train. You can read all about it on my own ‘bliki’: http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/User:Sarepava/Bliki

On a vaguely related note, I sold my first 3D-printed item on my Etsy shop today too.

This month I’ve been working on outer Dunwic, some farm land but also the satellite eards (boroughs) of Washinburh and Burdwic.

Washinburh - http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/56.3564/19.2950

Universitet Washinburh - http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/56.35943/19.30157

Burdwic - http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/56.34238/19.18348

I think the Dunwic urban area is starting to make sense now, to feel like a real and full city and not just a collection of half-finished neighbourhoods. I am always interested to know what people think, in particular any constructive criticism.

It’s taken ages, but the first pass of the Albedeer University campus in Gobras City is complete… Next up is more shops & facilities, but that can wait a bit. And the far west of the campus…

If you know where to look there’s still a fair bit of the original plan by Wal there.

L/

http://www.opengeofiction.net/#map=15/20.6448/86.6573

I want to use JOSM to edit on Opengeofiction. How do I do that?

I did download JOSM. It’s in the downloads folder.

I installed JOSM, got the remote control and OGF API working, however, whenever I try to edit, it says “no data found in this area.

Any solutions?

Thanks, SamTheWox

I am back from my travels, and will be mapping again. I also hope to do some work on developing a user “forum” environment for the wiki.

I visited friends and relatives in 5 US states in 2 weeks, including California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Alaska. As is to be expected, all that traveling has got me thinking of some ideas for things to map. My time in my erstwhile home in Southeast Alaska, especially, has inspired me about Mahhal (which basically has its real-world origins in my time living there), so maybe I’ll be doing some work on that.

First step: I need to increase the fjord and lake and island density. A lot.

Here’s a nice lake and some mountains seen during a day-trip down to a Native American settlement:

Here’s the head of fjord where my uncle’s house is:

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Hello, fellow mappers!

I forgot to say that October 2016 marked my second year anniversary of mapping on OpenGeofiction. When I first joined OGF in 2014, I started out mapping in AR901 (before it was named Rhododactylia) with the city of Eriwynne, and eventually, I got my chance to own UL016 (Belphenia) and started mapping my first city there with Shadowsnow City. Two years later, I completed my island country, Erzaleria, and I am in the process of developing Maydien and most areas in Belphenia.

And now, this is my response to Luciano’s Mapper’s Challenge for November, so I had been working on the Mikasatshi rivershed lately, and I got a chance to practice making a delta at the south end of the Mikasatshi River in southwestern Belphenia for my first time. Now that I am planning to make the rivers of Belphenia to be more realistic as possible.

So how do you like my new development?

Just to let everyone know, I’m active again!

P.S. If you want to help you can! (Message me please ,I need help)

http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:List_of_collaborative_projects

Thanks, SamTheWox of Psixal

Hello to everyone,

I’d like to share some tips for beginning mappers, as many new mappers joined OGF the last weeks and many questions came up.

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I am trying to add a name to a city but I always do it the wrong way by using area. What do I do to name a town

I just came to explore this area, and it feels as if i’m avoiding commonia due to being war torn, so I just went to their island for a visit before I reach back to Toronto next month.

This is just a roleplay post okay.

I am looking to build roads but, I can’t find an area to put them, where should they be?

If you want to help, feel free to do so, link me to a blue nation your doing the city in

I’ve just joined and I cant find a blue nation to lay down a city, maybe an airport?

Right now, I’m helping with the blue nations.

I like making highways and roads. I was interested in roads since I was little.

The only blue nation I helped with so far is Rhododactylia.

The Motorway system is amazing!

Opengeofiction is a great place to make fiction be seen.

Archanta is flooded guys, we better fix that.

I actually was planning on writing a user diary about this- I’ve run into one big issue recently looking at scale and proportion with my cities- while my scale for buildings, exits, etc has actually been somewhat accurate, I actually severely overestimated how big I was drawing my cities on the map. I think I may have forgotten that I was looking at a scale in kilometers instead of miles.

The Idea…

The northwestern coast of Freedemia is supposed to be home to most of the nation’s population. I imagine it as a pretty big megalopolis of sorts, an endless band of metropolis from Ciudad Nature over the border down to the southernmost tip of the Quentinsburgh area.

The area @Portopolis pointed out in a user diary entry a couple days back on urban divisions between Haroldsborough and Fort Elwood is a place I hope to fill in with a very dense “suburb” of sorts, probably an extention of Fort Elwood (I’m thinking maybe a city by the name of Southfort). I’m still filling in density in Haroldsborough, Fort Elwood, and Laneston/Vandover (as well as in Quentinsburgh/Mathersboro) so it may be a while before that comes to fruition. Now, as to @Thunderbird’s point in the comments, It would have to be far more dense than the Jersey side of the shore (I was thinking more like the denser parts of the Brooklyn/Queens side). I do imagine the northwestern Freedemian Coast as a megalopolis, hopefully in some ways including Ciudad Nature of the Autonomous Province of Nature just over the border.

The Problem…

Looking now, Quentinsburgh, a city that is supposed to have a population approaching 5 million, is smaller in size than somewhat sprawled but smalltownish Raleigh, NC, a city with only about 400,000 people. In order to make that work, I’d need an IMMENSE amount of density, probably more than Manhattan, way too much even for my global modern metropolis-megalopolis idea to work well.

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Hello all,

There has been talk on and off about the way we communicate here on OGF. I agree with some others that creating a forum would be the best way to collaborate. What we have with User Diaries is good, but topics disappear into the past within days. With a forum we would be able to continue discussions even on topics that were started weeks or months ago.

I know we have talk pages on the wiki, but you have to actively seek those out one by one. A forum would provide more visibility for ongoing discussions.

As far as funding, I would be happy to chip in for server hosting fees. I’m sure some of the other mappers would do the same.

What do others say about this?