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

Basics of content creation Using good edit comments How to create administrative boundaries How to make a city name appear on the map What you tag and what you see Key and tagging information What are multipolygons? and How to make them in JOSM? Help:Making an island inside of tidalflat Rules of the sea	Map maintenance Recent changesets (at OGF-mapping) New users mapping in the wrong areas Coastline maintenance Overpass queries What is different in "histor"-style?	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 Online tool for measuring great-circle distances in OGF Online 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 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…) Tips for making long shipping-lines with Potlatch2 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 Where to find photos How to use real life images in the OGF wiki Adding your country to lists and templates Creating automated lists from map data Using slippy maps

Tools and maintenance List of OGF polygon areas (to help calculate area) Help to clean up the wiki How to maintain the wiki main page Blank map of the OGF world Communication tools 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 OGF: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

• Relation area size calculator (instructions)
• OGF scale helper
• OpenGlobus - OGF planet
• How to make a contour map show up on the OGF Topo Layer for your country