(forum entry here)

So, lately I’ve been working a lot on my city of Klausburg (international/Ingerish name Clausburgh). I think almost all urban parts of the city are mapped to a certain extent. The parts that aren’t mapped yet are:

• the western parts of Antre and Neustat (up to West Ringweg and Sut Ringweg)

• the southern part of Neustat (south of Neu Kai and the small railway bridge)

After that I plan on mapping suburban and rural areas in the entire administrative area.

So, what I’d like to hear is: is this a good “sketch” of a city with around 120k to 200k inhabitants (I’m not sure about what the population should be)? Does it resemble a European city in a valley among the mountains? Is it mapped well so far?

Best regards and thanks in advance

Hello everyone,

In my city of Igwepir I decided to renovate the old rail terminal. I would like to get some feedback on whether it’s going well. Read more about it on the forum thread.

Every criticism is welcome. Both about geography and history, and also technicalities.

Best regards

Hey everyone,

When I run josm.jnlp, it says “Unable to launch the application”, and when I run the preinstalled JOSM, it runs and shows an error message that says it failed to connect to josm.openstreetmap.de. The home screen says “(Message of the day not available)”, and whenever I try to download something from OGF, it shows the error “Failed to connect to the remote server”.

Does this happen to anyone else? Is there an issue with JOSM servers?

Regards

EDIT: Forum thread here

Hey everyone,

I’ve started mapping Vumrupstat one of the most important cities in Reeland, the capital of the province Oberlant. The first part of the city I’m about to make is the former fortress (like Innenstadt in Frankfurt, Innere Stadt in Vienna, Budavár in Budapest). For now, I made a palace like Hofburg in Vienna, a ring road around the former city walls, and a few streets inside.

I’m interested in whether I’m doing a good job for now. Do you all think this is realistic?

Also, I’m not sure if the palace should be used for tourism, or maybe as a parliament building for the province?

I’m open for all criticism and suggestions.

Best regards

Hey fellow mappers,

I have transformed a mountain from a single way (natural=wood) into a way more detailed map. What do you all think?

Best regards

Hey everyone,

I tried to make some untagged ways which show me where the mountain range “goes”, if you know what I mean.

My question is, is that realistic? I know some things, but I am not an expert in geography/geology. But anyway I find it useful because that gives me a sense of topography.

What are your opinions about this?

Best regards

Hey everyone,

Instead of cities, I started working on topography. i added some more mountains, rivers and a lake in this region.

I want to know your opinions. Is it detailed enough? Is it realistic enough? All kinds of criticism are welcome.

Regards

Hey everyone,

I’ve really been dedicated to my city of Klausburg lately. I think that the city is looking way more realistic by now. It’s supposed to be a typical German-looking city, with around 120 000 inhabitants.

What do you all think? Is it coming along nicely? All thoughts, suggestions and criticism are welcome.

Regards

Hey everyone,

One of my best cities is Klausburg. Some people may know it from earlier, but now I’ve made a lot of additions to the city. I’ve drawn the railroads to some point; also, I have drawn ring roads (the northern primary road and the southern trunk road).

So, what do you all think?

Best regards

So I’ve continued developing the “confluence city”, or in Reelandic, Symflusstat. I’ve expanded the city beyond the island. For now I’ve just made a few streets, but I like it a lot. What do you people think?

Looking forward to all kinds of comments and criticism. Regards

Hey everyone,

You know how people say that you should look at your own painting in the mirror so you could know if it’s good? Well, I tried to do that with OGF maps, like this:

This way, you won’t recognize your own maps, so it will be easier to tell if it’s good.

What do you all think about this?

Edit: the point is that if you can’t look at your own maps objectively, a mirrored image could help you have a different perspective.

Most people who know me, know that my flagship city is Igwepir. Lately, I’ve added/changed some parts of it:

• Bergtorf - made the street network more realistic
• Flusstat - mapped the whole district from scratch
• Neu-Igwepir - changed the streets around the railways

So what do you all think?

I’ve started mapping the city called Fridrichshafen. An interesting thing about it is that it has few intricate shapes and is mostly planned from scratch, like Mannheim.

What do you all think about the city, as mapped so far? Should I continue like this or should I change something?

Hey everyone,

I have some knowledge on how to map central city areas, but when it comes to city areas which are not urban or rural, I get very confused. I’ve mapped some suburban areas of Igwepir, which you can see here. I’m referring to Vagheen Nort – a modern, densely populated suburb (similar to New Belgrade and Petržalka) It needs some work, but it looks decent. On the other hand, there’s Kritzen, which is supposed to be a typical German suburb (like this, for example). But when I map Kritzen, it never looks good at all. It just looks like a bunch of randomly placed streets.

Do you all have some advice on how to make better suburbs?

Regards

I see that people have used Maperitive to create custom maps. I’d like to make one too, but it’s all new to me. Can someone give me instructions?

Regards.

Inspired by many European cities, I’ve started to map Symflusstat, a city on a confluence of two major rivers. For now, I’ve mapped an old part of the city, on the island. I’m honestly very surprised how well it turned out.

What do you think? What should I add or change?

Regards

Hi everyone,

So, the worldwide standard for railway gauge is 1435 mm, and most tram/streetcar networks use that. However, another popular gauge for trams is 1000 mm. In some cities, it’s possible to have two independent tram networks with different gauges.

My question is: do you think it could be tagged differently? I want them to be rendered differently, but I don’t know which tag to use. I considered S-Bahn (light rail), but I don’t think that’s a good solution (for example, if I already have light rail in my city).

Any thoughts or ideas?

EDIT: The conclusion is that it’s better to make a map in the wiki than render it in OGF.

I think many of you already know about my most detailed city, Igwepir. So I’ve noticed that there are not enough parks in the city, and I thought this was a nice place for a large park.

My question is, does it look good that way, and should I expand it to the whole area marked green (the part of the trunk road (marked red) would be a tunnel, and the parallel tertiary road will probably be deleted or turned into a small street)? I’m not sure if the park would be too big that way.

We can all agree that OGF is supposed to be like the real world, but does not have actual real-world features. And if something exists in the real world, we avoid having it in OGF.

But, it often happens that we just keep something in OGF, changing nothing but the name (example: German->Gaerman). So basically, we have an OGF version for almost everything, just with a different name. I think this has gone too far - we need to be more imaginative, more inventive, more creative!

I do not know much about industrial zones and factories:

• how to know in what city/village to make one, and how to know where exactly it should be?

• what are characteristics of them i.e. what else to map except landuse=industrial?

Regards