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 Further information about verisimilitude Further information about uploading images

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 How to create administrative boundaries What you tag and what you see File:OpenStreetMapW.svg Key and tagging information File:OpenStreetMapW.svg What are multipolygons? and how to make them in JOSM Rules of the sea	Map maintenance Recent changesets (at OGF-mapping) New users mapping in the wrong areas File:OpenStreetMapW.svg Reverting changesets (advanced users only) Coastline maintenance Overpass queries	Tools and resources Configuring iD and JOSM for editing Useful JOSM plugins File:OpenStreetMapW.svg Measuring lines and areas in JOSM File:OpenStreetMapW.svg How to use image files in JOSM for tracing Scale helper: Browse OGF and OSM at the same scale Tool for measuring great-circle distances in OGF Tool for displaying great-circle distances in OGF
Tips for verisimilitude 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 rivers and Tips for drawing rivers Tips for making realistic roads (more…) Tips for making detailed forest cover Tips for realistic metro- or subway-nets Tips for making realistic streetcar systems Tips for making realistic airports Politics and Economics primer Resources for naming things (more…) How to make intricately shaped buildings How to find sizes in JOSM and Making objects the right size Discussion on the OGF topo layer

Contributing to the OGF Encyclopedia

Basics of content creation Wiki policies Creating your first article Making a good wiki article Image use guide and policies Adding your country to lists Creating automated lists from map data Using slippy maps

Tools and maintenance Relation area calculator (instructions) Categories and category trees Gallery of new images List of new pages User list Other resources from Special:SpecialPages

Tips for verisimilitude Generating statistics for your country: How to calculate national population How to generate economic statistics Making realistic flags Designing realistic banknotes Information about building embassies Finding destinations for your airport or airline

Community discussions

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