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'''Ohunkagan''' is the largest city in the state of [[Makaska]], in the Federal States of Archanta. It is a commercially important center of transport and commerce for the Grand Lakes Region in the nation's center-south.
'''Arhet''' is the name of a planet. And the name of a geofiction project. Tag-line: ''"Imaginary real estate doesn't need to be a scarce resource."''


=Etymology=
Alternate tag-line: ''"Sometimes you want to just toss verisimilitude out the window and map something crazy!"''


The name Ohunkagan for the city is derived from the [[Lake Ohunkagan|lake]] with the same name. The meaning is "story" or "myth" in the local native [[Rakhoda language]]. The lake was so-named because of the periodic gathering of the various Rakhoda bands in the region for storytelling festivals around the lake, which was held to be sacred.
The planet Arhet is the planet currently hosted on the map portion of the Geofictician site.


=History=
{{#multimaps: | center = -0.1,0.1 | width = 100% | height = 700px | zoom = 3 | maxzoom = 19 | minzoom = 1 | layer = Arhet }}


==Timeline: Growth of Ohunkagan==
The server structure is similar to, but not identical to, that found at OpenGeofiction.
__NOTOC__
==Project==


* 1812 - founding Fort Marony
I have decided to try an experiment. I have opened Arhet to other mappers. In principle, this is no different from the OpenGeofiction model. However, in implementation, I plan to take a different route. Below is a draft of current rules. The project is live, now. Contact me via email for membership. My email is not hard to figure out - consider your ability guess my email as a kind of ''qualification test'' for participation in the project.
* 1831 - founding Ohunkagan
* 1859 - Ohunkagan annexes Fort Marony (south of Canal)
* Ohunkagan in 1860: https://opengeofiction.net/relation/155439
* 1861 - annexes South Plains and Mt Airy
* 1872 - annexes village of Balto
* 1874 - annexes New Hotanka
* 1875 - annexes villages of Allanack and Hogarth
* 1879 - annexes Coke Undertown
* 1879 - annexes Hailsham
* Ohunkagan in 1880: https://opengeofiction.net/relation/155144


==Rules==
# Luciano is god in Arhet. My word is law. Period.
# Arhet is not "open" in the way that OpenGeofiction is "open." Participation is by invitation. If you wish to request an invitation, you should contact me via email. My email is easy to figure out. Hint: my name, at my domain.
# For now, invites will only be offered to OGF participants in good standing. Anyone with a history of sockpuppetry, disrespectful mapping, etc., on that site will not be considered.
# For now, I will ask users to use the same username as on OGF. This just makes it easier for me to decide if you're a decent person or not. (This might change in the future.)
# Arhet is not to be the same kind of planet as OGF, however. I currently expect it will be quite a bit more chaotic. That's because...
#* There are no assigned territories - map where you want, what you want
#* There will be no wiki. This wiki, that you are reading, is mine. For my projects. If you want to wikify your mapping on Arhet, find or build your own wiki elsewhere.
#* There is no "verisimilitude rule" - map fantasy or alien things, if you want
#* There will be no plan for a planet-wide coherent geology, ecology, history, culture, or language. Those things were neglected on OGF at the beginning, and efforts to retcon them later are depressing. We avoid the problem by stating at the outset that these things are irrelevant.
#* There will be no user diaries. If you want to write about your mapping, start a blog or something.
# In general, if your map is interesting, I won't object. There aren't that many rules, but there is zero tolerance for rule violations. Immediate banning, no discussion. Period. Mappers can be asked to leave for any reason, or for no reason.
# Users are expected to connect to Arhet using JOSM. I have seen very little evidence that high-quality geofiction is possible using iD or Potlatch. So deal with it.
# For now, because I can't be bothered, there will be no automated map update. I'll set a job to run updates a few times through the day. I may get organized and implement something if things go well and the site becomes popular. So you won't get immediate feedback on the map for your work.
#* I will happily kick off the update manually on a request basis, if you ask politely and I'm not busy with something else. But I am often busy with something else...
# Respect other people's creations - do NOT map on top of other people's work. This doesn't mean that Luciano will be your "enforcer." People getting into edit wars are likely to be both banned.
# No megalomaniacs. Creating a large continent doesn't give you a right to it. The world is big, but focus on detailed mapping, and large objects and spaces should be collaborative.
# '''A note on copyright and trademark violations.''' Personally I don't care if you copy or use "real-world" places/names/etc. ''However'', I don't want to get sued. Therefore copyright and trademark violations on the Arhet map are grounds for immediate banning. Note that OSM is ''copyrighted'', and using OSM data or tracing any copyrighted map without attribution is '''against the law'''! Note that putting a Starbucks or McDonalds in your imaginary town is using a trademark without permission, and is '''against the law'''. 'Nuff said.


==Before West Ulethan Settlement==
==Member List==
Current members (users) in Arhet.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!User
!Note
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/luciano/history luciano]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/sockpuppet/history sockpuppet]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Infrarrojo/history Infrarrojo]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Rhiney%20boi/history Rhiney boi]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Trombonist2003/history Trombonist2003]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/plainoldbread/history plainoldbread]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/JoJoBa/history JoJoBa]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Tito_zz/history Tito_zz]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/diamantschiff/history diamantschiff]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/Moskva/history Moskva]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/iiEarth/history iiEarth]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/theruler/history theruler]
|
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/user/CartographerKing/history CartographerKing]
|
|}


Before the arrival of the ethnically West Ulethan Effessians, the region currently occupied by the city and metropolitan area of Ohunkagan was home for thousands of years to native peoples. The Rakhoda people, who were those encountered by the settlers, were themselves fairly recent arrivals, however, probably having come into the area only 200-300 years prior. They either drove out or absorbed the prior native groups, about which very little is known in terms of ethnicity, though they left a fairly elaborate material culture in the form of baskets, lodges and such. Linguistically, the region was 100% Rakhoda-speaking by the time the settlers arrived, but there is a surviving substrate of non-Rakhoda names to be found, in places such as Squallywaukus, Bockbow, and some others.
==Discussion Channel (Discord)==


=Geography=
There is a an #Arhet channel on the "unofficial" OGF Central server hosted by austinhuang. Contact Luciano for an invite. Most Arhet discussion takes place there.
 
==Wards and Neighborhoods==
 
The city is informally but strongly divided into two parts, based on the historical merger of Fort Marony and Ohunkagan in 1859. By the city charter amendment of 1872, city wards must be drawn along neighborhood boundaries. So neighborhoods are listed below by ward constituency.
 
===North of Canal (Northside)===
 
* Ward 1 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157514
** Hagiyopta https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157386
** Loop https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157384
** North-of-Canal https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157385
 
* Ward 3 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157513
** Central https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157383
** Collard https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157381
** Near North Side https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157375
** Old Northwest https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157377
 
* Ward 5 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157620
** Balto https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157395
** Doon Park https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157389
** Duriez https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157388
** Firefly https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157390
** Gunboat https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157515
** Shakespear Bay https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157387
** Shocking https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157394
 
* Ward 7 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157621
** Cassadine https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157619
** Monkford https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157523
** Percival Park https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157374
** Wallawaukee Park https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157376
 
* Ward 9 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157529
** Allanack https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157524
** Bassompierre https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157522
** Ihey https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157521
** Mideketou https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157525
 
* Ward 11 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157526
** Bazaar https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157382
** East Parthia https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157379
** Stockyards https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157380
** Parthia https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157378
** Half Mile https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157520
 
* Ward 13 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157527
** Caingorms https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157516
** Coke Undertown https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157519
** De Brosse https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157518
** Signal Hill https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157517
 
* Ward 14 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157511
** Hogarth https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157392
** Percival Hill https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157391
** Xavier Point https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157393
 
===South of Canal (Southside)===
 
* Ward 2 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157528
** Fort https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157512
** Monitor https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=157510
 
* Ward 4 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=
 
* Ward 6 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=
 
* Ward 8 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=
 
* Ward 10 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=
 
* Ward 12 https://tile.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html?q=

Revision as of 19:13, 12 February 2020

Arhet is the name of a planet. And the name of a geofiction project. Tag-line: "Imaginary real estate doesn't need to be a scarce resource."

Alternate tag-line: "Sometimes you want to just toss verisimilitude out the window and map something crazy!"

The planet Arhet is the planet currently hosted on the map portion of the Geofictician site.

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The server structure is similar to, but not identical to, that found at OpenGeofiction.

Project

I have decided to try an experiment. I have opened Arhet to other mappers. In principle, this is no different from the OpenGeofiction model. However, in implementation, I plan to take a different route. Below is a draft of current rules. The project is live, now. Contact me via email for membership. My email is not hard to figure out - consider your ability guess my email as a kind of qualification test for participation in the project.

Rules

  1. Luciano is god in Arhet. My word is law. Period.
  2. Arhet is not "open" in the way that OpenGeofiction is "open." Participation is by invitation. If you wish to request an invitation, you should contact me via email. My email is easy to figure out. Hint: my name, at my domain.
  3. For now, invites will only be offered to OGF participants in good standing. Anyone with a history of sockpuppetry, disrespectful mapping, etc., on that site will not be considered.
  4. For now, I will ask users to use the same username as on OGF. This just makes it easier for me to decide if you're a decent person or not. (This might change in the future.)
  5. Arhet is not to be the same kind of planet as OGF, however. I currently expect it will be quite a bit more chaotic. That's because...
    • There are no assigned territories - map where you want, what you want
    • There will be no wiki. This wiki, that you are reading, is mine. For my projects. If you want to wikify your mapping on Arhet, find or build your own wiki elsewhere.
    • There is no "verisimilitude rule" - map fantasy or alien things, if you want
    • There will be no plan for a planet-wide coherent geology, ecology, history, culture, or language. Those things were neglected on OGF at the beginning, and efforts to retcon them later are depressing. We avoid the problem by stating at the outset that these things are irrelevant.
    • There will be no user diaries. If you want to write about your mapping, start a blog or something.
  6. In general, if your map is interesting, I won't object. There aren't that many rules, but there is zero tolerance for rule violations. Immediate banning, no discussion. Period. Mappers can be asked to leave for any reason, or for no reason.
  7. Users are expected to connect to Arhet using JOSM. I have seen very little evidence that high-quality geofiction is possible using iD or Potlatch. So deal with it.
  8. For now, because I can't be bothered, there will be no automated map update. I'll set a job to run updates a few times through the day. I may get organized and implement something if things go well and the site becomes popular. So you won't get immediate feedback on the map for your work.
    • I will happily kick off the update manually on a request basis, if you ask politely and I'm not busy with something else. But I am often busy with something else...
  9. Respect other people's creations - do NOT map on top of other people's work. This doesn't mean that Luciano will be your "enforcer." People getting into edit wars are likely to be both banned.
  10. No megalomaniacs. Creating a large continent doesn't give you a right to it. The world is big, but focus on detailed mapping, and large objects and spaces should be collaborative.
  11. A note on copyright and trademark violations. Personally I don't care if you copy or use "real-world" places/names/etc. However, I don't want to get sued. Therefore copyright and trademark violations on the Arhet map are grounds for immediate banning. Note that OSM is copyrighted, and using OSM data or tracing any copyrighted map without attribution is against the law! Note that putting a Starbucks or McDonalds in your imaginary town is using a trademark without permission, and is against the law. 'Nuff said.

Member List

Current members (users) in Arhet.

User Note
luciano
sockpuppet
Infrarrojo
Rhiney boi
Trombonist2003
plainoldbread
JoJoBa
Tito_zz
diamantschiff
Moskva
iiEarth
theruler
CartographerKing

Discussion Channel (Discord)

There is a an #Arhet channel on the "unofficial" OGF Central server hosted by austinhuang. Contact Luciano for an invite. Most Arhet discussion takes place there.