OpenGeofiction
Hello:
Any general or specific comments on my country of Glaster? All places, except Ellmouth and Stewhampton(generally), are far from finished, and will require much more work to complete. Feel free to have a browse around, and you can even add a few things if you want to. Just make sure I know. (You may need to zoom out to see the whole country).
http://opengeofiction.net/?lat=52.0922&lon=128.9781&zoom=9
The wiki page is here: http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Glaster
Thanks
Yuanls
Discussion
Comment from Thunderbird on 15 December 2015 at 07:06
Great work so far! I like the detail on the highway roundabouts. The city is very well organized.
Comment from Pawl on 15 December 2015 at 15:11
I think the mapping looks really good! I’m wondering what population you envisage for Ellmouth. It has the attributes of a large city (motorway, biggish railway station …) but its size - c.3km on a side - seems to me about right for a town of about 40k people (based on places I know in the UK).
Unrelated to the map, on your flag have you considered using a light-coloured star, or light border around the star (light = white or yellow)? Black-on-red, or any other dark-on-dark combination, can be very hard to see on a flying flag. Most RW countries avoid it (there are a very few exceptions, e.g. Albania and Morocco).
Comment from Yuanls on 15 December 2015 at 18:30
@Pawl I think the definition of a Glastian ‘Motorway’ needs a bit of work. Currently to qualify as a motorway, a road in Glaster needs to have at least 4 lanes, and have more than 80% grade-separated junctions (excluding rIng roads). There is a bit of leeway, and some roads in Glaster will qualify for motorway status, but will only be a main road, and vice versa. The problem is then the general definition of a Glastian motorway and a real trunk road/primary road will be blurred, resulting in a large numbers of motorways. Because of this, I just draw anything that qualifies as a Glastian motorway with a motorway tag, while in real life they would be classed as a trunk or primary road.
I very loosely based Ellmouth on the town of Leamington Spa in England, which has a population of just under 50k, so I decided that my town would have around that many people as well. (They are nearly the same size, plus I haven’t finished the area around Wentonstone.)
I’ve considered changing the flag before, but I think he flag of Glaster will remain the same for now, mostly because I’m satisfied with its current look. I might change the shade of red in the future though.