{"id":164,"date":"2019-02-13T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/?p=164"},"modified":"2019-02-13T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:58:42","slug":"5-years-mapping-and-naming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/13\/5-years-mapping-and-naming\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Years Mapping and Naming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I failed to commemorate my 5th anniversary on OGF. I mapped my <a href=\"https:\/\/opengeofiction.net\/node\/5820505#map=15\/-24.9494\/124.8361\">first node<\/a> on January 31, 2014. Maybe there were a few nodes mapped before this, but they have been deleted, and they were on that same date. Puerto Desolado was my first OGF town.<\/p>\n<p>Only today, I felt a moment of nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>I keep working, slowly, on Makaska. One thing that&#8217;s important to me: the &#8220;native&#8221; names in the state are the pseudo-fictional Rakhoda language. This is just an alternate name for the Dakota language, as spoken by the native peoples of southern Minnesota in the pre-European era. So all the native names of the state are actual Dakota words. Hence when mapping, I keep this hand book on my desk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/generalsemiotics.net\/img\/2019\/201902\/rakhoda.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"picture\" src=\"https:\/\/generalsemiotics.net\/img\/2019\/201902\/rakhoda.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music to name things by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xvGiYFOx5T4\">Sioux Honor Song<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I failed to commemorate my 5th anniversary on OGF. I mapped my first node on January 31, 2014. Maybe there were a few nodes mapped before this, but they have been deleted, and they were on that same date. Puerto Desolado was my first OGF town. Only today, I felt a moment of nostalgia. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2019\/02\/13\/5-years-mapping-and-naming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 Years Mapping and Naming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makaska","category-offline-geofictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}