Trailings of a beginner

Posted by Legendardisch on 6 March 2016 in English.

Pre-word

Hello, so I think a proper introduction is at place, is it not? My name is Legendardisch, I traverse places like r/worldbuilding and Nationstates, I have come to learn about OGF via r/worldbuilding. So I like to write and build worlds. I had a lot of issues with JOSM but I have learned to do stuff in iD and Potlach 2. Currently I am working on my fictional nation Legendardisch inside of OGF.

First town

So the first town what worked on was Reinoud, a small town north of the capital, it was a playingfield for me, to try and understand the editors. There are some errors, but I will work on Reinoud later on

image of Reinoud

You can find Reinoud here , every building is hand drawn and most houses have a house number. Some other things I need to do is put in the municipal borders and suburbs/neighborhouds, But I haven’t grasped the whole relation system yet, but it will come!

Working on the capital

So I have taken a break on Reinoud for a while, to start work on the capital, Endeavour. It has a island and some neighborhouds surrounding it. It has a New York/European feel to it. Its still a work in progress.

image of Endeavour

You can find Endeavour here Its obviously a work in progress, and I may occasionally jump between Endeavour and Reinoud and maybe even focus on other things, but it is coming along piece by piece.

After-word

So all in all, I have been doing stuff, being a little busy bee you may say, I don’t have a wiki article up (yet) but I may work on that too later on, every tip is appreciated by the way, and oh if it says Helvianir or Lorwynne somewhere, thats old, I renamed it all to Legendardisch or Endeavour.

Thanks.

Discussion

Comment from Leowezy on 6 March 2016 at 22:25

Hey, first of all a warm welcome :) Your mapping looks quite good for a beginner I think; with JOSM it will only get better in the long run ;) One advise I would give you (having made that mistake myself) is NOT to start mapping your capital yet. More importantly, start with the general geography of your country / city surroundings.

As you haven’t mentioned reading them, I can also only encourage you to read through these amazing wiki articles from the community; I wish I had read them earlier xD :

Realistic cities

realistic countries

http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/OGF:Administrative_boundaries (Don’t worry about them yet; they can be easily added later on and it’s much easier with a little bit of experience in JOSM).

That’s just my tiny bit, I really love your detail work and the general feel; I’m just too tired right now to write more, so I’ll leave the rest to the others ;D Night~

Comment from Legendardisch on 7 March 2016 at 15:00

Hey Leo,

I wish I could use JOSM but it simply doesnt work - I have given up trying to fix issues that a developer should have thought about fixing.

I have read the guides and use them as a general guideline, but using iD I cant simply do an entire geography, that said I do have stuff in mind, but I work on it piece by piece like a writer works on his book chapter by chapter, my biggest goal is just to make it all look good, while also following the realistic rule.

Anyways still, thanks for the respond.

Comment from Leowezy on 7 March 2016 at 17:38

What exactly is your issue with JOSM? Maybe we can help you :)

Comment from Legendardisch on 7 March 2016 at 18:15

I have posted this before and nobody could help me, its a diary before this one

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