Hello, dear OGF-community. After a hard time in life, I am looking forward to get active in OGF again. At the moment I am working solo on an own country, which is still located in Commonia, but which I want to move later on. I can’t really promise to finish it and so I thought, it would be a good idea to create it in Commonia, instead of having an own territory and then never finish it. Today is was busy at reworking the Malinton Delta in Gobrassanya (May still need some time to update). What do you think about it?

Regards, Bstn

I sometimes see people nominating their own work in the wiki, which isn’t useful at all. The reason for a nomination - of course - is and always should be honest work. It is hard to follow every single picture or map detail. Thats why it isn’t a coincidence that a part of the nominations is connected to an earlier presentation in a user diary. What do you think about it? Do you have suggestions or do you feel comfortable with the current system?

Regards,

Bstn

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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Hey,

found a tool which can actually render a complete planet from space to grass level in 3d.
Link of the website
Video of the program

User Stjur created a new District in Gobrassanya: Barodyne District as a colony of Commonia, as taken from the district name. As it is a quite radical change for the history/landscape of Gobrassanya and took some already existing cities to be rebuilt, I’d like to discuss the changes. I am fine with creating new ideas, but I am not happy about creating such a radical change without contacting the community about the influences, etc.

Please have in mind that cooperation has to be the highest value of each participant.

I am fine with the creation of a local independant “Sprachraum” and maybe also small varieties in culture, but greater things have to be discussed.

This diary isn’t meant to be offensive, it should just clarify the importance of cooperation.

-Bstn

Look yourself.

I created two new Infoboxes for:
- Roads (means Highways, Trunks/Expressways, Primary Roads, (Secondary Roads))
- Landscapes

Infobox Road

The infobox road is usable for large connection roads, like highways, trunks/expressways and primary roads, maybe also secondary roads. For minor roads and streets in towns and other residential areas, please use the Infobox street, which offers more details for suburban areas.

In addition to infoboxes, I created some courses of highways, which aren’t finished yet. Highway 1 (Gobrassanya). The symbols on the left are the templates I created for interchanges, exits, … As they’re drawn in 5 minutes, they don’t seem like much, so maybe someone who is interested in symbols, can draw some nicer versions or add additional symbols? Resolution is 28x28px. A complete category about the symbols can be found here.

Infobox Landscape

I don’t have to say much about that, I guess. A simple infobox that shows general informations about a landscape.

Feel free to edit the infoboxes and add additional informations, if you’re aknowledged with the theme.

For first I overwatched the already existing “Infobox street”, so is there a category that shows all infoboxes? If not, there should be one, to beware of multiple infoboxes.

Order is important!

As I saw some road infoboxes are already taken for other countries, which is nice to notice. I tried to create a system for highway images, templates, … in Gobrassanya. Maybe, it would useful to make all road article namings (and numerations) in a special system.

I have the following idea of article naming:
“Highway 1 (Gobrassanya)”
“Expressway 323 (Gobrassanya)”
“Primary Road 13 (Gobrassanya)”
“Secondary Road 12 (Gobrassanya)”
…
(See the numbers of the roads just as random, the structure of the article name is important)

I think this is a good system of structuring the data in the wiki. Images of the reference numbers just get .png at the end so it is

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I choosed the areas south of Gobras City for my “blue” edits because of the large amount of progress that has already been made in this area. My first longtime edits were in the areas of southern Gobras City, so I feel very familiar with the area and like to spread my ideas at this location.

Milaukáshka + Taxland took me ca. 15h of editing and there is still a load of things to do:
+ Zoning areas
+ Doing all of south and west Milaukáshka
+ Adding detail to Bellegarden Park
+ Adding detail to Down Town area (Maybe collaborative?)

My thinkings behind Milaukáshka are to combine old elements of a city (Old Town) with modern elements (Taxland).

What I am very happy with is the countryside east of Taxland, but what do you think about the progress made? Important for me is, if the size is realistic? (I feel like the distances are too small).

Maybe, you do also want to read the article about Taxland (More content follows soon)?

PS: If somebody is interested in helping me - especially at the countryside north-west of Ominoso - , I would be very thankful: Empty countryside Area! Also feel free to add details (e.g. gasoline stations, shopping malls, etc.) into the area.

Stay blue! :)

-Bstn

I recently wondered if there’s a possibility of getting all nodes and ways of an area or tile via entering a specific url like “www.opengeofiction.net/api/0.6/gettiles/{zoom}/{x}/{y}” The resulting data output format should be xml, e.g. Way 24084 (www.opengeofiction.net/api/0.6/way/24084)

I have no knowledge of servers and all the stuff around it, so maybe someone can help me?

I am grateful for every answer. Bstn

Flag:

I just created a flag for the capital of Gobrassanya - Gobras City. I already added it to the Wiki-Page (Image in full resolution). The background color is the same as of the national flag and I also added the Gobrassanya star but I thought an eagle would be nice to show the “power of the government”. I also added the text line “Thi húeron ontha riwe plevín” which means “The heart at the right site” as the motto of the country to the Gobrassanya wiki page.

Progress in Gobras City:

(I also edited quite a bit of eastern Gobras City area with the help of other builders. –> Luhuo and Chanayétte districts.)

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I am interested in what you think about the flag and if you have ideas for improvements. Also I am not very sure wheter I should remove the text line on the Gobras City flag or not. What do you think?

Regards,

Bstn