Forum:Official collaboratives/Mecyna
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Happy discussing (and) mapping! –The Cute Chick (talk) 21:00, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
Canal crossings
I am currently scaling back the area that was formerly Minoa and Nora, because of over-ambition. During the course of converting the area to something more sensible, I wish to ask how many road and rail crossings should there really be. I ask this because the Panama Canal has only three bridges, but in Mecyna's case I am thinking of five road crossings or tunnels, and two railway tunnels. --ika-chan! (talk) 06:54, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- I think the canal has plenty of crossings already -- if any, there are currently too many -- and does not warrant any additional crossings. --TheMayor (talk) 14:46, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- The road crossings at Langley Road and Riverton were withdrawn today. I am proposing that the canal should only have the following fixed crossings:
- Phoenix Canal Tunnels (Pavonearse Motorway and a railway line of up to six tracks)
- Minnisa Canal Bridge (NH2)
- Xandria Canal Tunnels (NH3 and a railway line of up to four tracks)
- This proposal's success depends on mappers enforcing the rule.--ika-chan! (talk) 22:58, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- The road crossings at Langley Road and Riverton were withdrawn today. I am proposing that the canal should only have the following fixed crossings:
Mecyna 'Supergrid'
Mecyna has many power stations, electrified rails and cities yet no power grid to transmit electricity from sources (generation) to sinks (where it is needed). My proposal is to construct a country-spanning electrical grid with enough capacity to transmit electricity throughout Mecyna and act as an electrical corridor connecting North and South Archanta. The frequency for this proposed 'Grid' will be 50Hz, allowing for compatibility with the existing rail network. The planned operating voltages will be 400 & 275kV and each line will have 3 phases and 2 circuits. The towers used on these lines will be either Barrel or Three level designs will range from 37m to 51m in Height and have a maximum span of 370m (Excluding river crossings and vertical towers and spans). There will be Four 400kV Canal Crossings - Two south of Armsted around Lock 1 (4ZL and ZE lines) one to the east of Riverton around Lock 3 (ZD line) and a final crossing to the west of Stagrey around lock 4 (ZH line). Currently I have a diagram of the network but cannot upload it easily. --Fusionia (talk) 12:09, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- As a blue free-to-edit territory Mecyna is geared toward beginner mappers, as an introduction to OGF. It's not really the place for hyper-detail focussed solely on one particular type of infrastructure. Your earlier power line mapping was removed because it overwhelmed things in the editors, it was far too much. I think it is fair to say your interest is predominantly in mapping power infrastructure, rather than all aspects holistically. That's not appropriate for Mecyna.
- There are large areas in Mecyna where the topography is pretty much non-existent. It's bad enough with road/motorway-spam, but this is a whole other level of bad. Natural features need to be nailed down before even considering power lines. And I do not think that is achievable in Mecyna, certainly not in the short-term. It might not even be desirable.
- Where it is valid to map power lines, is where you have an area mapped in high-density. Isolated lines that tie into the rest of the mapping. But not over vast swathes of chaos. /wangi (talk) 12:30, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
- I don't personally the effort would be in vain, nevertheless. While it's a blue territory, it seems there isn't that much activity in Mecyna such that the grid would be heavily vandalised or changed. Perhaps nevertheless, there can still be a sort of a "framework" of this power grid from which future beginner editors could work on. After all, power grid mapping isn't really considered very often even among more veteran mappers. But I also agree that, if Fusionia wants to continue working on Mecyna (and be an unofficial custodian; there's been mappers in the past who have tended to "blue territories", like Rhododactylia and Drull), they should also consider other aspects, particularly the physical geography.--Zhenkang (talk) 06:56, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
I do have a rough layout of this 'Grid' - The first focus would be power lines around either the canal or majority of the West Coast - As these areas are mapped most - in particular the general areas of Silversea & between Haerin and Qu-Anges. There is an option on the East Coast - A line running alongside the Eastern Motorway (Between Stagrey and Falconham) - Regardless, the majority of the layout wont be added until topography is complete. --Fusionia (talk) 21:21, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
- I don't personally the effort would be in vain, nevertheless. While it's a blue territory, it seems there isn't that much activity in Mecyna such that the grid would be heavily vandalised or changed. Perhaps nevertheless, there can still be a sort of a "framework" of this power grid from which future beginner editors could work on. After all, power grid mapping isn't really considered very often even among more veteran mappers. But I also agree that, if Fusionia wants to continue working on Mecyna (and be an unofficial custodian; there's been mappers in the past who have tended to "blue territories", like Rhododactylia and Drull), they should also consider other aspects, particularly the physical geography.--Zhenkang (talk) 06:56, 28 November 2025 (UTC)