OpenGeofiction
I have been working on this for little than half a year…maybe, and I think it’s time for a little look over so I can get some general feedback on my next steps and what can be improved. So, lets dive into the nation of Tierajas-Verdes.
As some of you know, I participated in the 7th Mapper’s Challenge, the detailed country-side challenge. So lets start with wrapping that up in a nice bow. I took your suggestions to head in the local area. I think the main Chandori River can still be reduced in size, though it’s meant to be like the Bangladeshi segment of the Brahmaputra or Padma, so I think it’s size is okay? I haven’t felt like working purely on the country-side since the challenge, but I think I’ll be returning to it whenever I get the feeling for it, it was an enjoyable task.
Segment of the Tirra for the Mapper’s Challenge
I think now we should look at Tierajas-Verdes in it’s entirety in general. I feel confident the coastline is in good shape until I get down to the proper details along it…which will probably be a long long way away. Here is the wiki list for the largest towns in Tierajas-Verdes and above it, the quick-noted history of the country, so you can see how all cities relate to each other, such as the north being more impoverish until extremely recent, thus the possible lack of a main connection between Punto de Christopher and Parirakbe. What do you all feel about it? The roads and rails will be detailed further down the line.
Tierajas-Verdes in it’s entirety
Now we move onto the 2 cities I have spent most time on. The cultural capital of Parirakbe, and the political capital of Punto de Christopher. I’ve recently worked on the limits to these two metropolitan areas to feel more correct to their population. I’ve tried to make Parirakbe and Punto de Christopher as Bengali feeling as possible, and I think I’ve pulled it off. I just feel that I haven’t given myself opportunity to expand roads outside of the ring-roads, and don’t quite know where to go from there. I’ve also started to populate Parirakbe with buildings as seen here but they don’t quite feel right either.
And the final comment I want to make, it seems like JOSM seems the way to go if I want to get more advanced from using Potlatch 2, but I wouldn’t even know where to start. So I’m a bit treppid to move to it. Do you think Tierajas-Verdes can be improved by using JOSM as to all I’ve been doing using Potlatch?
Thanks for reading through all of this, any feedback would be good for me, I’m still very much a novice at this despite how much I have improved.
Discussion
Comment from Gubble on 9 December 2016 at 21:00
Firstly, get JOSM. Just a tiny amount of experience will let you realize the increased potential of JOSM. Can’t recommend enough. Onto the country. For one, the river system and coastline look great. Some detail does need to be added but once you’ve got all the little rivers and such (like IRL Bengal), I’m sure it will feel much more Bengali. There is the question of whether the split of the river to two different exits is realistic, but that does happen. I’m not the best with country history so I can’t give much advice on the poorer north but I’ll just say there would probably still be a fairly large connection between Punto de Christopher and the North. You have already drawn massive highways across the poorer north so they probably have enough money to connect them to the richer south. My main problem with your country is all these little interchanges in the city center. They seem unnecessary at best. Maybe it’s just my European viewpoint but I really think a lot of cities have too many interchanges. Though you have successfully made the road system, for the most part, look like Bengal’s. Possibly add more primary roads? I would also add some more slum like areas- roads even denser than they already are.
Comment from isleño on 10 December 2016 at 02:58
Hello, neighbor! I really like this country and am enjoying watching the progress.
My only suggestion would be to make the delta slightly more… natural? To show what I mean, I pasted a little bit of Bangladesh in there, just as an example of what might look more realistic:
Hope this inspires your creativity. :-)
Comment from Luciano on 10 December 2016 at 06:26
I like this country too. It’s great to see how it’s been progressing.
I don’t know if you need to worry too much about the delta - there are deltas more in line with what you’ve sketched (e.g. Mississippi delta). I think the main factor is rate of flow of the river at the point where it reaches the sea. Mississippi has high rate of flow, so its delta extends more. That said, since the feeding river isn’t (can’t be) very long, it might have a lower rate of flow (or volume) which would impact the delta shape.
Comment from isleño on 10 December 2016 at 08:29
My understanding is that a tide-dominated delta with widening channels like this (e.g. Bangladesh) can’t form a narrow “bird’s foot” shape like the river-dominated Mississippi.
Comment from Luciano on 10 December 2016 at 09:38
@isleño - I think that’s right. I only meant that I don’t know if Aces California is necessarily committed to imitating the Brahmaputra delta. He’s declared it as a model, but he could change his mind if he prefers the other shape.
Comment from isleño on 10 December 2016 at 19:51
@Luciano: Ah sorry, it seemed you were saying that he didn’t need to worry much about it because it resembled the Mississippi. I was just saying is that it doesn’t really look like the Mississippi, either; it’s an odd mix of features that isn’t possible, as far as I’m aware.
Comment from Aces California on 10 December 2016 at 20:11
Thanks everybody for your tips. I’ll download JOSM and have a go with it. For the Delta, I’ll see what I can do to make it look more like Bangladesh. Probably help to read up on differences between high and low flow rates in Deltas.