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Week One + 1 day

Posted by ioliver on 29 October 2017 in English.

The joys of rescaling things … like entier city center….basically rescale in JOSM by selecting all and using Ctrl+Shift (or was it Ctrl+Alt … one of them is rotate, but you can work that out) and upload.

And all roads and rail broken in JOSM, split those and reassemble using the web editor…

Check using the OGF Scale Helper, eg: http://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/map_scale.html?map=C/15.372989512876591/62.00805/46.58825&map2=OSM/x/51.48012/-3.17211&pxpt=0.277&scale=6250

Now you notice that the area for shopping, offices, government, railway station etc is about the size of Cardiff, Wales. We even have a stadium in the city center!

Repeat until correct,sane or until insanity has set in…

Week One

Posted by ioliver on 28 October 2017 in English.

Finally a land is all mine!! Mine I tel you, my precious….sorry, too much Tolkein :-) A week or sort of JOSM practice in Midistland: Talamanca out to the coast and many years of pent up world building, conlanging frustrations :-)

Gweriniaeth Gwalia has been started and at least the center of its capital Lleifor has been set out along with a short Wiki article (structure blatantly stolen from Tircambry). Which gets me to my next point which is what is Gwalia?

Well, a Celtic republic with a number of similarities (language being one) with Tircambry, but with a differing model of government, history and quite likely economic development. A kind of Celtic/Welsh reimagiing of Finnish/Nordic modern history….let’s see what happens.

So, next steps…the valleys immediately to the south of Lleifor, to the north will come a particularly nice beachfront, then plans for a larger port in the north east and somewhere in the north the airport…

Location: Nabila, City Of Nabila, Greater City of Nabila, Rheim Maark