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= Dr Hubert On The Beach at Jeres =
'''Arhet''' is the name of a planet.
''by Polychrome Hightower (a pen-name for Mahhalian radical, [[Hhakullybiry]])''
<poem>
He was lost, alone. His companions were dead.
Dr Hubert stood under Mahhalian skies.
The man's disconsolate face had turned to gray,
And the war, begun and just ended, like gold,
Seemed pointless. The billowing clouds threatened rain.
There was a ragged pine down the shore. A lie


Had started it all. It was pointless. A lie
The planet Arhet is the planet currently hosted on the map portion of the Geofictician site (see link to left, "Geofictician map", or window below).
had bloomed, flourished, been nurtured, and now was dead.
Days before, with hope and optimism, the rain
had relented and the typically wan skies
had given way to bright explosions of gold
And crimson as the sun rose. Just now, a gray


Seagull spun, landed, stepped twice, and pecked at gray
{{#multimaps: | center = -0.1,0.1 | width = 100% | height = 700px | zoom = 3 | maxzoom = 19 | minzoom = 1 | layer = Arhet }}
bits of sand, searching for insects, that might lie
Beneath. Dr Hubert bent and picked up a spent gold
shell-casing from the sand. Memento of dead
Fellow fighters. He turned and peered at the skies
But his memory only showed him the rain


Of bullets that hours before, before the rain
The server structure is similar to, but not identical to, that found at OpenGeofiction.
Diligently washed the sour smell of gray
Gunpowder from the cold air, had filled the skies'
Dome with pain, useless suffering and death. That lie
Had been the false utopia promised by dead
Men. Earthly paradise had been a fool's gold.


Some of the birches on the hillside had gold
I have decided to try an experiment. I am intending to open Arhet to a limited number of other mappers. In principle, this is no different from the OpenGeofiction model. However, in implementation, I plan to take a different route. Here is a first draft of planned rules.
leaves, which hung like saddened children as the rain
started again finally, pelting the dead
vegetation. Their white bark, damp, looked like gray
Photographs. He felt tired, now. I want to lie
down," he muttered. "The Collective filled our skies


With hope for glory. Here in Jeres those skies
''This project is "live", now. I have added my first user. I'm hoping for feedback about the proposed ideas, below, and to gauge interest.''
Instead have been destroyed." A pale egret, gold
beak flashing, lands down the beach. "Nature can't lie
To us, though. I will take solace in the rain."
Born among angels, having fared across gray
seas, the idealist peered from among the dead.


Under Mahhalian skies, driftwood damp and dead,
==Rules==
On gold sands lay. Dr Hubert faced the gray
# Luciano is god in Arhet. My word is law. Period.
Heavens and chose to lie down in the lucid rain.
# 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. If you can't figure out my email, you probably don't deserve to participate. Hint: my name, at my domain.
</poem>
# 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 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 will be no verisimilitude rule. Map what you like - in your assigned area.
#* 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.
# 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. In general, if your map is interesting and you keep in your assigned area, I won't object.
 
==Implementation==
# 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...
# Users will be assigned territory by "degree square." This means exactly one degree of width, longitude, by one degree of height, latitude. You get open ocean. Build islands, collaborate with neighbors to build continents, whatever. If you map outside your assigned degree square (except with permission in one owned by another person), that's instant banning.
# Currently users will be granted any open degree square in Southern Hemisphere. I'm keeping the Northern Hemisphere in reserve.
# That's a lot of degree squares. Between 0 and 80 south, and from 180 west to 180 east, that's 28800 possible squares. So... additional degree squares will be granted to users who do something interesting to their first ones.
# The above doesn't mean I have tolerance for grandiose or megalomaniacal projects ("Hey can I have 2000 degree squares I wanna build a continent"). My own experience shows that we geoficticians generally bite off more than we can chew.
 
==Territory List==
''Territories below are specified (for the most part) by coordinates: southwest corner to northeast corner.''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Area
!User
|-
| Northern hemisphere
| luciano
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/#map=7/-1.00/151.50&layers=H 2°S 148°E to 0°S 155°E]
| luciano
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/#map=9/10.5/150.5&layers=H 10°N 150°E to 11°N 151°E]
| sockpuppet
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/#map=9/-4.5/150.5&layers=H 5°S 150°E to 4°S 151°E]
| Infrarrojo
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/#map=9/-0.5/-0.5&layers=H 1°S 1°W to 0°S 0°W]
| yours!
|}

Revision as of 15:47, 21 September 2019

Arhet is the name of a planet.

The planet Arhet is the planet currently hosted on the map portion of the Geofictician site (see link to left, "Geofictician map", or window below).

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

I have decided to try an experiment. I am intending to open Arhet to a limited number of other mappers. In principle, this is no different from the OpenGeofiction model. However, in implementation, I plan to take a different route. Here is a first draft of planned rules.

This project is "live", now. I have added my first user. I'm hoping for feedback about the proposed ideas, below, and to gauge interest.

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. If you can't figure out my email, you probably don't deserve to participate. 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.
    • 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.
  4. 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 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 will be no verisimilitude rule. Map what you like - in your assigned area.
    • 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.
  5. There aren't that many rules, but there is zero tolerance for rule violations. Immediate banning, no discussion. Period.
  6. Mappers can be asked to leave for any reason, or for no reason. In general, if your map is interesting and you keep in your assigned area, I won't object.

Implementation

  1. 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.
  2. 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...
  3. Users will be assigned territory by "degree square." This means exactly one degree of width, longitude, by one degree of height, latitude. You get open ocean. Build islands, collaborate with neighbors to build continents, whatever. If you map outside your assigned degree square (except with permission in one owned by another person), that's instant banning.
  4. Currently users will be granted any open degree square in Southern Hemisphere. I'm keeping the Northern Hemisphere in reserve.
  5. That's a lot of degree squares. Between 0 and 80 south, and from 180 west to 180 east, that's 28800 possible squares. So... additional degree squares will be granted to users who do something interesting to their first ones.
  6. The above doesn't mean I have tolerance for grandiose or megalomaniacal projects ("Hey can I have 2000 degree squares I wanna build a continent"). My own experience shows that we geoficticians generally bite off more than we can chew.

Territory List

Territories below are specified (for the most part) by coordinates: southwest corner to northeast corner.

Area User
Northern hemisphere luciano
2°S 148°E to 0°S 155°E luciano
10°N 150°E to 11°N 151°E sockpuppet
5°S 150°E to 4°S 151°E Infrarrojo
1°S 1°W to 0°S 0°W yours!
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