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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 Key and tagging information 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 Reverting changesets (advanced users only) Coastline maintenance Overpass query language Basic Overpass tutorial (external link)

Tools and resources
Configuring iD and JOSM for editing Useful JOSM plugins Measuring lines and areas in JOSM 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 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
Relation area calculator (instructions) Route relations and transport viewer Categories and category trees Gallery of new images List of new pages User list Other resources from Special:SpecialPages

Tips for verisimilitude
What is "verisimilitude?" Generating statistics for your country: How to calculate national population How to generate economic statistics Making realistic flags 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)

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 * {{OSMW|JOSM/Plugins/Reverter|Reverting changesets}} <small>(advanced users only)</small>
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-* [[Help:Standard_overpass_queries|Overpass queries]]
+* {{OSMW|Overpass_API/Overpass_QL|Overpass query language}}
+* [https://osm-queries.ldodds.com/tutorial/index.html Basic Overpass tutorial] <small>(external link)</small>
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-* [[OpenGeofiction:Wiki policy|Wiki policies]]
+* '''[[OpenGeofiction:Wiki policy|Wiki policies]]'''
-* [[Help:Creating your first article|Creating your first article]]
+* [[Help:Creating your first wiki article|Creating your first article]]
-* [[Help:Making a good wiki article|Making a good wiki article]]
+* [[Help:Making good wiki articles|Making a good wiki article]]
+* [[Help:Making good wiki articles/Territory templates|Intro to infobox and infocard templates]]
 * [[OpenGeofiction:Uploading images|Image use guide and policies]]
-* [[Help:Adding your country to lists|Adding your country to lists]]
+* [[Forum:Request help/Flag template requests|Requesting a flag template]]
 * [[Help:Automated wiki tables and lists|Creating automated lists from map data]]
 * [[Help:Using the MultiMaps extension|Using slippy maps]]
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 * [https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html Relation area calculator] ([http://opengeofiction.net/user/thilo/diary/1335 instructions)]
+* [https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/util/route_relations.html Route relations and transport viewer]
 * [[Special:Categories|Categories]] and [[Special:CategoryTree|category trees]]
 * [[Special:NewFiles|Gallery of new images]]
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+* [[OGF:Verisimilitude|What is "verisimilitude?"]]
 * Generating statistics for your country:
 ** [http://opengeofiction.net/user/tparigo/diary/422 How to calculate national population]
 ** [[Talk:List_of_countries_by_economic_statistics|How to generate economic statistics]]
 * [[Help:Making realistic flags|Making realistic flags]]
-* [[Help:Making realistic currency|Designing realistic banknotes]]
 * [[Collab:Embassies|Information about building embassies]]
 * [[Help:Where to fly|Finding destinations for your airport or airline]]
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+* [https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/index.php/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&namespace=110&limit=100&days=7&enhanced=1&urlversion=2 Recent forum posts]
+* [[Forum:Archive|Archived discussions]] (2020 and earlier, with variable canonicity)
 * [[Forum:Index|Wiki forum]] <small>([https://old.opengeofiction.wiki/index.php/Special:WikiForum archived discussion])</small>
-* [https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/index.php/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&namespace=110&limit=100&days=7&enhanced=1&urlversion=2 Recent forum posts]
-* [[Talk:Portal:World_History|Discussion about world history and languages]]
-* [[Collab:World_climate|Discussion about world climate]]
-* [[Talk:World_geology|Discussion about world geology]]
-** [[OpenGeofiction:Map of known mountains]]
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-* [[Talk:World_Time|Discussion about world time zones and the Prime Meridian]]
-* [[Talk:The_Name_of_this_Planet|Discussion about the name of the world]]
-* [[Talk:Names_of_Continents_and_Oceans|Discussion about the names of continents and oceans]]
-* [[Talk:Wiki|Discussion about the wiki]] and [[Talk:Main_Page]]
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 [[Category:Help pages]]
 [[Category:Community information hubs]]