Forum:Territory application/BG21 - Melawan

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	Territory ID and proposed name
	The Territory ID (from OpenGeofiction:Territories, e.g. AR123a) and proposed name of the country

AR001 - the Circuit of Melawan, Kitayana (part of a federation-state project that I've got in my mind for which I've already mapped at least one candidate city to duplicate into when I get to the phase of developing its mainland)

	Physical geography
	An overview of climate, topography and landscape of the country. It is advised to also create a sketch, you can add a link to this (hosted on imgur or similar)

• climate - tropical all over w/ monsoons between late-May and mid-November each year
• topography - not gonna try to fix it bcuz it's already been mapped to a quality I can accept but anyway lemme describe it in simple terms: mountainous in the northern half + flat in the southern half ^_^
• landscapes - lush mounts of forest in the northeast + northwest that become somewhat more rugged closer to the middle - this becomes more wetland-ish in the southern half (especially closer to the coastline)
• phys geo sketch for this territory - here （￣︶￣）↗　

	Human geography
	A brief description of the territory demographics, economic development, land occupation, infrastructure and mapping style

• demographics - a half-rural, half-urban permanent population of btwn. 500K and 1M
• economic development - similar to that of Thailand w/ the added bonus of heavily benefitting from tourism since late into the 1970s when it joined the Federation of Kitayanese Circuits (mainland yet to be mapped)
• land occupation + infrastructure - unevenly distributed within the territory w/ the south being more urban in infrastructure and habitation than the rural north
• mapping style - generally to be inspired by the IRL resort areas of Pattaya and Khao Yai (both in Thailand)

	History & culture
	A brief description of the intended culture and language

• history - indigenously inhabited by the Melawanese people since c. the 23rd century BCE w/ a century-long colonial period from the 1870s to the 1970s (similar to IRL HK and Macau) after which it joined the sovereign federation it's part of today
• culture + language - similar to that of the IRL Isaan region of Thailand + eastern Malaysia w/ an indigenous language similar to IRL Tagalog/Atayal as well as a good command of IRL English + Malay

	Past mapping
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Ishiyama city - an incomplete metropolitan city project intended for copying later w/ a pretty mountainous topography + some lush forest landscapes mixed in a way similar to this territory (ik it's still obviously WIP but... at least having it on hand's better than having nothing to prove for this section (✿◠‿◠))

	Username & date
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Mikumikumapper (talk) 14:33, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

	Discussion
	Discussion for clarification & decision

Hi, I'm Lemuria, the mapper of nearby Lutang, a Philippines-themed country. Your application's great, but:

• What does the red text in your sketch say? It's unreadable to me. It says something like "Kopayin" which makes no sense to me.
• Ishiyama City, while well-mapped, doesn't really fit the intended theme of the region.
  • Also, the expressways are too far apart (from eyeballing it, it is 200 meters, whereas more realistically-scaled expressways are 15-25m apart between lanes.
  • You may want to consider requesting a Beginner territory to have a dedicated place to develop your Pattaya-style mapping outside of the blue territories, or you can use the NUPDZ right away.
• What will be the mapping language of Melawan?

Overall, welcome to OGF, and happy mapping! Lemuria (talk) 15:24, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

thanks （￣︶￣）↗　 so I intended to write "keep as is" with that red text in the sketch but it was on a laptop w/o a stylus so it became unreadable... ◑﹏◐ and also yeah although it's still imperfect as of now (I mean I admit there's probably too much of a distance btwn the expressways I mapped there and so on) I intend to make a copy of Ishiyama City when I get to my federation project's mainland phase (ie. after I've significantly developed AR001 from what already exists there) speaking of which I'll write down the important bits of my current Federation of Kitayanese Circuits project plan for ya:

1. phase I - AR001 to be further developed from what's already mapped there as an offshore circuit of the federation (ie. what I'm currently seeking for w/ this application)
2. phase II - AR002 to be further developed from what's already mapped there as the federation's mainland - I'm planning to copy Ishiyama City into there just so you know what I meant before ^_^

and while I'm still on this application lemme tell ya that I'm planning to map Melawan using a mix of English + a Tagalog/Atayal-like conlang - on a closing note I probably should request a BG territory for myself to develop some Pattaya/Khao Yai-style mapping like you said just to ensure I have something that fits my intended theme when I revisit this application later on ok （￣︶￣）↗　Mikumikumapper (talk) 04:11, 28 October 2023 (UTC)