OpenGeofiction
I have realised that 1. My capital city has an unnatural shape 2. I have a bad rural-urban transition 3. My nation looks 3rd world. I put my country at 0.8 on the Global development index, but my maps don’t reflect that 4. I don’t have much land detail
So, with that said, most of my capital city will be getting deleted. However, some of the more dense shopping districts will not. Here is the plan: * Remove my Main Motorway. * Place trunk roads at intervals, in a gridlike style. * Have 1 or 2 motorways, depending on the development of other things. * Place small towns where trunk roads intersect, as well as a few other small towns scattered around. * Not every intersection will have a town, some will be larger towns or gas stations, others will be parks & tourism. * Detail the rural areas to have more areas like farmland. * Add more mountains and peaks.
Discussion
Comment from deshrulex on 13 October 2019 at 05:28
if it looks a little weird but this is how you learn, trial and error and so I continuously erase my territory several times and I feel that every time I do it I improve it even more although I think I would not erase it again hehe, try not to make very straight tracks There are useful tools in Josm for that, I would advise you to define the territory I mean mountains forests valleys rivers etc.
Comment from AustinBoath on 13 October 2019 at 22:37
Mostly I do not wish to erase things, I just wish to further detail them.
Comment from louis_walker on 14 October 2019 at 20:27
Use real-world comparisons to get better at mapping at a proper scale.
https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/map_scale.html?map=C/13.301613561581073/-26.83564/145.92798&map2=OSM/x/16.19020/-95.20048&pxpt=0.2767&scale=50000
Comment from iiEarth on 16 October 2019 at 23:39
Maybe you should work more on making the landscape and detail the area rather than working on airports and freeways. It is recommended to work on the geography of the area first so that you can later on shape your country. Also, why is your motto and your country’s name based on Japanese when it has no Japanese (or Nihonish) ethnic groups (‘Native 65%’ and ‘Commonian 35%’)? I am assuming that ‘Native’ is not Nihonish as only the name and the motto is Nihonish (the capital is also not Nihonish and neither is the anthem).