{"id":100,"date":"2018-04-30T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T03:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/?p=100"},"modified":"2018-04-30T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T03:39:03","slug":"makaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/makaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Makaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work has been quite rough, lately. So I haven’t done much of anything geofictional.<\/p>\n

However, isle\u00f1o recently took AR120 “live” in OGF. AR120 is meant to be a kind of OGF version of the US. And I had long planned to make a state in this country. I gave up the vast majority of my territory in Mahhal (returning it to the unused country pool as AN160e) and exchanged it for a smallish “Great Lakes” state. This state will be Makaska.<\/p>\n

Makaska is roughly modeled on Minnesota, and other upper midwest locations (Wisconsin, Michigan, Dakotas). It has a large, isthmic metropolis, called Ohunkagan – this is real-world Dakota language, which I studied once, long ago. Many of the place-names in Makaska will be from Dakota, including the actual state’s name.<\/p>\n

I have actually done a lot of work on Makaska. But its shape was vague because I wasn’t sure which location I would get in OGF to implement it. So it was kind of schematic, with all these fragments of contour sections, hydrology, counties, etc.<\/p>\n

Now I’ve begun the work of adapting these schemata to its actual location. I have more than 10 different JOSM layers, and I go back and forth, adjusting a river, rearranging some towns, etc. I used JOSM’s opendata plugin to upload about 300 placenames directly from a spreadsheet where I’d been working on them. So that’s a start.<\/p>\n

Here’s a screenshot of the work-in-progress.<\/p>\n

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Music to map by: Niloo, “Ola Ola.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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