Well, I suppose I should introduce myself. I’ve been here about a month, but have been pretty quiet up to now.

I’ve been a map geek all my life, but for some reason have never really done anything with online mapping before. But here I am, and I’m greatly enjoying this little adventure.

I have established the country of Orlenna, at the western end of the southern part of Archanta continent. Come visit - the weather’s nice! Be sure to visit the legendary Citadel of Samman Wey (uh, well, I haven’t actually mapped that yet, but it will be there soon - and perhaps discerning individuals will be able to guess where it is supposed to be), and try some Brandeia wine - it’s the world’s finest (in our humble opinion ;-) )

By the way, it has occurred to me that it might be a good idea to have an OpenGeofiction tutorial. I know there is extensive documentation on the OpenStreetMap site, but I think that even though we use the same tools, there are some fundamental differences in the process: in particular, I don’t think people working on OSM do very much drawing, and certainly not over long distances - and the easy-to-use web-based editors reflect that. Whereas here we are creating whole cities and countries from scratch, and it’s really pretty awful trying to draw, say, a 500-mile railroad in iD or even Potlatch. So I think among other things, newcomers to OGF should be encouraged to learn JOSM as soon as possible, and a tutorial would help with that. I might be able to write such a document, though I don’t have very much free time just now.

Last but not least, I’m attempting to include the Orlendi flag below … I don’t have wiki access yet, so I put it on Imgur. However, it’s not showing up in the preview, so if you can’t see it, go to Orlendi flag image. Should we be able to include inline images? The Markdown mini-reference on this pages suggests it is possible.

That’s all for now. Good night!