Some of you may remember my handle from years past; I was mapping the Island of Mallorjhe in southern TA for some time before life… you know, happens (births, deaths, new jobs, all that stuff.) Long story short I have been inactive for about a year and I see no real likelihood of my coming back any time soon, much as I would have it otherwise. Perhaps one day, but not soon.

As ways to waste time with a computer go, OGF is among the best. I’m sorry to leave it, though hopefully I leave it slightly more interesting than when I started? Thats all we can hope for I think. It was fun, it was difficult, and I will miss it. See you around someday, hopefully. Until then-

Good Luck and Happy Mapping, R.S.

I have been mapping Port Mallore off-and-on for over a year now. I don’t think its bad by any means, but after most of the large moves are complete it is now getting a little tiresome. I think the best thing I can do for it at this point is to leave it be and come back after a while with fresher eyes. Anyone else feel this way? Like she and I simply need a break and then we will be happy together again…

Please have a look at the city and if you are so inclined let me know what you think, good AND bad please. I can take it I promise, and I know my work can improve. Please help me do that.

I plan to spend my time now working larger scale, mapping the hydrology, land use, major transport routes, and ample natural splendor for the whole of the island of Mallorjhe including absorbing TA113b and d into a unified landform. (admin has cleared it.) I was thinking of using Puerto Rico as an example but with a little more agriculture and a prominent spine of mountains with an old volcano or two. I am open to suggestions here if you have ideas or advice.

Thanks all, r.s.

I updated JOSM to version 10966 (windows) yesterday like a good boy should. The performance at high zoom levels (16+) is sluggish and glitching, finally hanging up and crashing when zoomed all the way in. Its unusable for fine city work. Before I revert to an older version: Does anyone have a similar experience? Any wisdom to share? Yes I have updated Java to the most recent version too.

Thanks in advance, r.s.

All,

Does anyone use the command line plugin for JOSM? I discovered it this weekend and got all nerd excited at the prospect of adding some AutoCAD functionality to JOSM. Unfortunately, I cannot get it to work- any command I execute simply processes infinitely, even very simple ones like circle. Has anyone encountered and overcome this issue?

Conversely, any other good plugins for circle/arc/fillet/spline creation?

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I have had mixed results trying to portray a planned highway extension. I have been using the “highway=proposed” tag and then a “proposed=highway” key, as instructed here.

At first I did not think this worked at all since the ways just disappear like untagged items, but then I switched to Histor’s style and it does in fact display a dashed highway like one would expect. (Histor I am coming around on using your style all the time, tip of the hat to you for its existence.) So this combination of tags does work, just not in the “standard” style that I assume most people use.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks to overcome this? Anyone have a better way to show planned construction?

Thanks in advance, r.s.

Hello All,

I am having a good deal of trouble learning about the OGF world, such that it has been drawn and wiki-ed to date. I am looking for a broad history and narrative, and even though the world is young and hugely incomplete I know there is plenty out there already. (Languages, migrations, religions, wars, colonial and imperial backstories, etc.) How best do I track those bigger, trans-national ideas down? The trouble is the fundamentally piecemeal nature of the map and especially wiki, and this is by design I know. I don’t expect to be bound to someone else’s history, but I would like to learn it and have the opportunity to play off it in an intelligent way. The “wiki everything around me in widening circles and ignore inconsistency while trying to make sense out of the small amount of overlap in entries” strategy is not working well.

So: What’s the closest thing we have to an accumulated history of the world? Or, asked in a more manageable way: How would a new user learn a little about the world before he or she is let loose upon it?

I know this is a big topic but the question is asked to try to make a richer and more interesting product. Thanks in advance, r.s.