Help:Portal

OpenGeofiction offers several resources about our community, learning about the project, and providing guidance to new and advanced users alike. This portal page is designed to direct users and interested parties to the pertinent information.

Getting started and basic inquiries

Site information About OpenGeofiction Contacting OpenGeofiction Copyrights and Licensing Terms of Use

Site policies and procedures Contributor terms Site policies What is verisimilitude? Image policy and wiki policy

Joining OpenGeofiction Information about joining the project List of collaborative projects Blue territory etiquette User dashboard

Mapmaking on OpenGeofiction

Elements of content creation Using good edit comments Creating administrative boundaries File:OpenStreetMapW.svg Key and tagging information File:OpenStreetMapW.svg What are multipolygons? Tagging unique to OGF Rules of the sea On-map templates for easy adaptation About OGF's topographic layer

Map maintenance Recent map changesets Daily activity summary map New users mapping in the wrong areas File:OpenStreetMapW.svg Reverting changesets (advanced users only) Coastline maintenance File:Overpass-turbo.svg Overpass Turbo basics File:OpenStreetMapW.svg Overpass query language Basic Overpass tutorial (external link)

Tools and resources Configuring File:OpenStreetMap-Editor iD Logo.svg iD and File:JOSM Logotype 2019.svg JOSM for editing File:JOSM Logotype 2019.svg Additional JOSM support Useful JOSM plugins File:OpenStreetMapW.svg Measuring lines and areas in JOSM Making relations (multipolygons) in JOSM File:OpenStreetMapW.svg How to use image files in JOSM for tracing File:Drawing Tools Flat Icon Vector.svg Scale helper: Browse OGF and OSM at the same scale File:Drawing Tools Flat Icon Vector.svg Relation area calculator (instructions) File:BSicon mTINT saffron+green.svg Route relations and transport viewer Tips for making objects the right size Measuring great-circle distances in OGF Displaying great-circle distances in OGF

Guides for realism Tips for making countries that look realistic Tips for making cities that look realistic Tips for making realistic railways (4-part series): Introduction to railways (mostly theory) Landscape, curves, and junctions Stations How trains operate Tips for making realistic roads (more…) Tips for making realistic airports Resources for naming things (more…)

Contributing to the OGF Encyclopedia

Basics of content creation Wiki policies Creating your first article Making a good wiki article Intro to infobox and infocard templates Image use guide and policies Requesting a flag template Creating automated lists from map data Using slippy maps

Tools and maintenance Categories and category trees Gallery of new images List of new pages User list Other special maintenance pages

Tips for verisimilitude What is "verisimilitude?" Generating statistics for your country: How to calculate national population Information about building embassies Finding destinations for your airport or airline

Community discussions

Active and archived discussions
Wiki forum Archived discussions (2020 and earlier, with variable canonicity)