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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 queries

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

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 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
Wiki forum (archived discussion) Recent forum posts Discussion about world history and languages Discussion about world climate Discussion about world geology OpenGeofiction:Map of known mountains	Discussion about world time zones and the Prime Meridian Discussion about the name of the world Discussion about the names of continents and oceans Discussion about the wiki and Talk:Main_Page

Other resources

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 * [[Help:Good edit comments|Using good edit comments]]
 * [[Help:Administrative boundaries|How to create administrative boundaries]]
-* [[OpenGeofiction:How to make a city name appear on the map|How to make a city name appear on the map]]
 * [[Help:Tagging|What you tag and what you see]]
-* [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features Key and tagging information]
+* {{OSMW|Map_features|Key and tagging information}}
-* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:multipolygon What are multipolygons?] and [https://blog.mapbox.com/mapping-complex-features-in-josm-using-relations-b930a6aec2c7 How to make them in JOSM?]
+* {{OSMW|Relation:multipolygon|What are multipolygons?}} and [https://blog.mapbox.com/mapping-complex-features-in-josm-using-relations-b930a6aec2c7 how to make them in JOSM]
-* [[Help:Making an island inside of tidalflat]]
 * [[OpenGeofiction:Rules of the sea|Rules of the sea]]
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 * [[OpenGeofiction:Recent changesets|Recent changesets]] (at OGF-mapping)
 * [[Help:New user patrol|New users mapping in the wrong areas]]
+* {{OSMW|JOSM/Plugins/Reverter|Reverting changesets}} <small>(advanced users only)</small>
 * [[OpenGeofiction:Coastline maintenance|Coastline maintenance]]
-* [[User:Mstr/Sandbox/Standard_overpass_queries|Overpass queries]]
+* [[Help:Standard_overpass_queries|Overpass queries]]
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 * Configuring [[Help:Configuring iD for OpenGeofiction|iD]] and [[Help:Configuring JOSM for OpenGeofiction|JOSM]] for editing
 * [[Help:Useful JOSM plugins|Useful JOSM plugins]]
-* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/measurement Measuring lines and areas in JOSM]
+* {{OSMW|JOSM/Plugins/measurement|Measuring lines and areas in JOSM}}
-* [[OpenGeofiction:Using image files in JOSM|How to use image files in JOSM for tracing]]
+* {{OSMW|JOSM/Plugins/PicLayer|How to use image files in JOSM for tracing}}
 * [http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/util/map_scale.html?map=13/20.73/86.72&map2=x/38.89/-77.04&pxpt=0.277 Scale helper: Browse OGF and OSM at the same scale]
-* [http://oilofvitriol.com/users/pax/ogfd/ Online tool for measuring great-circle distances in OGF]
+* [http://oilofvitriol.com/users/pax/ogfd/ Tool for measuring great-circle distances in OGF]
-* [http://oilofvitriol.com/users/pax/ogf2/ Online tool for displaying great-circle distances in OGF]
+* [http://oilofvitriol.com/users/pax/ogf2/ Tool for displaying great-circle distances in OGF]
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 * [[Help:Politics and Economics primer|Politics and Economics primer]]
 * [[Help:Resources for names|Resources for naming things]] ([http://opengeofiction.net/user/Fleur/diary/58 more…])
-* [[Help:Shipping lines|Tips for making long shipping-lines with Potlatch2]]
 * [http://opengeofiction.net/user/bhj867/diary/43 How to make intricately shaped buildings]
 * [http://opengeofiction.net/user/Fleur/diary/54 How to find sizes in JOSM] and [http://opengeofiction.net/user/isle%C3%B1o/diary/17 Making objects the right size]
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 * [[Help:Making a good wiki article|Making a good wiki article]]
 * [[OpenGeofiction:Uploading images|Image use guide and policies]]
-** [[Help:Photo resources|Where to find photos]]
+* [[Help:Adding your country to lists|Adding your country to lists]]
-* [[Help:Tips for using images|How to use real life images in the OGF wiki]]
-* [[Help:Adding your country to lists and templates|Adding your country to lists and templates]]
 * [[Help:Automated wiki tables and lists|Creating automated lists from map data]]
 * [[Help:Using the MultiMaps extension|Using slippy maps]]
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-* [[OpenGeofiction:Area_table|List of OGF polygon areas]] (to help calculate area)
+* [https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/util/relation_area.html Relation area calculator]
-* [[OpenGeofiction:Wiki cleanup|Help to clean up the wiki]]
+* [[Special:Categories|Categories]] and [[Special:CategoryTree|category trees]]
-* [[OpenGeofiction:How to maintain the wiki main page|How to maintain the wiki main page]]
-* [http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/images/2/2d/OGFoutlineblank.png Blank map of the OGF world]
-* [[OpenGeofiction:Communication tools|Communication tools]]
 * [[Special:NewFiles|Gallery of new images]]
 * [[Special:NewPages|List of new pages]]