I’ve been having great fun with Overpass API the last few days.

Does anyone have any good scripts to share? Any advice on using it?

I created this one to give me an idea of the road networks in Dunwic.

There’s been a lot of discussion about forums and chat rooms. A lot. I have created an OGF forum to allow for a more organised method of discussion about our OGF work.

I have not created an off-topic forum, I might do in the future but after the last few days it seems best to concentrate things on mapping, cities that inspire our mapping and the wiki.

Take a look, register and we’ll see how things go.

http://opengeofiction.forum2.net/

Dréamhealdende af Myrcia! Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all!

One of the things I heard back clearly when I last asked for feedback on Dunwic was that my transport system was not as realistic as I wanted it to be. Since then I’ve been trying to fix the bugs and come up with a more realistic system for a city of Dunwic’s size and I’d like to know more about what you think.

Essentially I have reduced the light rail from 7 lines to 2 and transferred some of those lines over to the regional rail network. I have also re-routed lines, gotten rid of duplicating lines and tried to erase all the steep curves from the system.

Here are the maps you can compare side-by-side

Current Dunwic map

Dunwic map from a month ago

Current Bernica map

Bernica map from a month ago

Here is the new RM Regio diagram (this only shows the major stops)

What more can I do? Is the new arrangement more realistic?

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.

I’m really looking forward to focusing on this month’s mapper’s challenge as I’ve been wanting to do some rural mapping for a while now.

To begin with I’m going to work on the rural areas immediately surrounding Dunwic (Myrcia’s capital) and then perhaps think about starting to map other rural areas as I get more confident in how I want Myrcian countryside to look.

My frame of reference will be Great Britain and Ireland for the most part.

Villages I’ve worked on in the last few days:

Hanhám

Eclesburh

I’ll update this diary entry as I work more throughout the month.

Firstly I gave Flyht Myrcia (Myrcia’s major airline) a brand refresh last night and designed a nice boarding pass (aided by the fictional OGF universe where airlines aren’t stuck with 20 year old printers!). So please take a look and let me know what you think.

Flyht Myrcia on OGF Wiki

If your country is in Uletha or Tarephia then I’d like to establish an air route from Dunwic Flyhthæfen International. Just reply to this post or send me a message. Also happy for reciprocal flights or codeshare agreements to be established with your airlines.

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Hello all,

Just wanted to post my new Trambæn map which I’ve worked on today. It’s still something of a work in progress as I have not finished the city yet but I hope you like it.

Full size Map > http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/images/2/29/Dunwictram.png

Wiki article > http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Tramb%C3%A6n

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The Isle & City Games are my creation to provide a sporting arena for small nation states, city states and islands who wouldn’t be able to host a Geolympiad event and who aren’t all that competitive in the medals table.

Founded in 2000, the first ICG were in Myrcia in 2004. The games are bi-annual and take place in the spring, around late-April. The events are a scaled-down version of the Geolympics. The host nation selects 25 events to host which can range from sailing to decathlon to lacrosse.

Any nation of under 2 million can compete. Any city with a population of under 2 million can enter as a city team. Any semi-autonomous island or group of islands with a population of under 2 million can enter as an island team.

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Hello again everyone. I really appreciated the feedback I got on my last post about my central railway station and now I have redesigned my airport and need some input again. I know a lot less about airport design than I do about railway stations.

Wiki article

Dunwic Flyhthæfen International

Before today Myrcia had a huge airport which I built thinking it would be a regional hub but, realistically, I think it was over optimistic and so I decided to start over again. You can see here the difference between the two airports:

I hope this new airport is a more realistic size. I’ve also improved the transport links, simplified the motorways and re-routed some of the railways.

Let me know what you think

I’ve been working on a re-build on Dunwic’s central station this week. Sarepava gave me some very helpful feedback on the old station and I decided to start from scratch to rebuild it. It’s inspired by Dutch stations where the railway is on an elevated level with a concourse at ground level and metro tracks below ground.

I am particularly proud of the station plan on the wiki page.

Take a look: On the map: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/56.33525/19.25231

New wiki article: http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Dunwic_Mid_station

Let me know what you think.

Just thought I’d give a bit of an update on what I’m working on in Dunwic. I’ve been working on improving the city that I’d mapped too quickly and without enough detail. I’m getting close to having completed the entire city centre. I have also been changing names from Ingerish to Myrcian (based on Old English).

Here are some areas I’ve recently completed and am quite proud of:

Kirkcoleg Myrcia

Map

The city’s university, built in the 1930s in a collegiate style by a garden city architect. It’s still not 100% finished but it’s something I keep going back to and adding detail and more buildings.

Forshæig / Vesterburh

Map

I began these neighbourhoods last week when I got back from being in the Netherlands. I got rid of the neighbourhoods that were here and started from scratch building canals and creating an antiques shopping area.

Nórdburh

Map

Another area I’ve recently re-built from scratch. It’s an 18th century street plan inspired by Sir Christopher Wren. It includes the neo-classical cathedral (St Anselm Milkirk) and the cliff railway which leads down to the river.

Hýþ Terminal

Map

This area used to be a fairly clumsy harbour that was one of the first things I mapped. I got rid of all that and re-designed it to be more realistic. I think the retail park, even though it’s quite a simple thing, makes it look particularly realistic.

Feedback always welcome!

When I contribute to OSM one of the tasks I like to do is updating the transport data for a few cities in the UK. This is shown on the Transport Layer which shows bus routes and gives rendering priority to public transport infrastructure.

I don’t know how feasible it is to bring this feature into OGF? It would be nice to be able to add bus routes and have them render on the map.

Since my move from Archanta to Uletha I’ve had to re-jig my international connections. As such I’m once again asking to set up some air routes for Myrcian Airways.

Dunwic International Airport is a large, international hub for north-western Uletha and so I’m looking for flights across the northern hemisphere and I want to have them for both Myrcian Airways and your own airlines.

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Hello all,

After my discussion about language in my last post I asked the admins if I would be able to move my nation from southern Archanta to NW Uletha for reasons of historical, linguistic and cultural continuity.

The very kind Luciano has agreed to move Mercia this weekend to a spot 100km off the coast of Ingerland and Scandmark and deal with the scaling issues that come with moving a country so far north.

I have decided now would be a good time to change the name of my capital from Elmham to (the more pleasing) Dunwic. I have edited the Wiki and I will edit the mentions on the map at some point this evening.

I am looking forward to making connections with my new Ulethan neighbours and to writing more history and culture for my little island nation.

• Adam

I’ve begun to sketch out a history for my tiny island nation, stranded off the coast of Archanta. I wanted to make it as insular as possible so the nation has never been colonised but has acted as something of an academic centre from the 18th century onwards.

This leads to the question of language. I have created my nation in English but with Anglo-Saxon saints and religion. Would it be realistic to have an old language of Mercian which has mostly died out but remains the language of the national religion and then to have Ingerlish as its replacement?

I would imagine that Ingerlish originated from foreign scholars and traders in the 18th century but by the time of the industrialisation of the nation in the 19th century had replaced Mercian in the realms of education and business. By the 20th century Mercian was broadly forgotten (except in very rural areas) and Ingerlish spoken by 90% of the population. Today there could be a resurgence of interest in Mercian but Ingerlish spoken as the official national language.

This would avoid the need for colonisation by Ingerland and allow me to use English in mapping and writing about the country but also to pepper it with mentions of the old language of Mercian.

Apologies for the long post, let me know what you think.

I’ve spent the evening adding some detail and realism to the centre of my capital city, Elmham.

I like to share my work every so often and get some constructive feedback. It’s been a lot of fun thinking on a micro level about the city instead of laying out the streets and transit lines.

So far it’s quite a small area I’ve worked on but it’ll be expanding as I go.

Let me know what you think. http://opengeofiction.net/#map=18/-36.61761/169.20527

Mercian Airways is looking for international destinations to call at. We are a mid-sized flag-carrying airline for the Kingdom of Mercia.

Route map

Wiki article

Please post below with airports at which Mercian Airways can begin to operate flights and if there are any airlines in your nation which would like to begin flights to Elmham International Airport.

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Mercia is a small island nation so my model here is based on Malta, I am looking for medium-haul flights to regional and international hubs and for trade and business routes. Malta’s most far-flung destinations are Dubai, Moscow and Stockholm. I would like my flights to be restricted to the area shown in the route map. - Adam

I’ve been working on the capital city of Mercia for about three weeks now and I’m making slow progress as I’m trying to incorporate quite a bit of detail into the mapping. I’d love some feedback on the city and the wiki articles I’ve been working on.

http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/-36.6129/169.2046 < Elmham http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Elmham < Elmham wiki article http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Mercia < Mercia wiki article http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Roads_of_Mercia < roads of Mercia (ring road exits)

Hi there,

I really love what’s going on here and have enjoyed looking lots at the wiki and other people’s countries. I decided to get stuck-in on the common area of the map this afternoon and have managed to create a small city.

I used Potlatch 2 which is what I’m used to using on OSM. I don’t edit OSM much but used to spend hours on it when I was bored at work.

Could you take a look at my work here > http://opengeofiction.net/#map=13/10.0221/129.6773 and let me know what you think. Especially about scale, it’s so hard to judge.