OpenGeofiction
{{Short description|Collaborative fantasy map}}
{{Notability|Web|date=September 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{infobox website
| name = OpenGeofiction
| logo = OpenGeofiction logo.svg
| logo_size = 100
| screenshot = OpenGeofictionContinentsSeptember2024.png
| caption = The continents of the OpenGeofiction world.
| products = Fantasy cartography
| url = {{URL|https://opengeofiction.net/}}
| commercial = No
| type = Collaborative mapping
| registration = Required for contributors, not required for viewing
| language = Multilingual
| num_users =
| content_license = Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
| owner =
| author =
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2013|09|01}}{{cite web|title=Opengeofiction – a collaborative platform for the creation of fictional maps|work=Urban Geofiction|publisher=Stadtkreation|location=Hamburg|date=September 1, 2013|accessdate=September 7, 2024|url=https://urbangeofiction.stadtkreation.de/opengeofiction-a-collaborative-platform-for-the-creation-of-fictional-maps/}}
| current_status = Active
}}
OpenGeofiction (abbreviated OGF) is an online collaborative mapping project focused on fantasy cartography and worldbuilding of a world analogous to Earth. It uses OpenStreetMap software and processes in a separate environment, providing an outlet for artistic expression that avoids interfering with OpenStreetMap's mapping of the real world and potentially mitigates the risk of vandalism there.{{cite journal|title=Excluding Effects of Cartographic Epistemologies — Thinking About Mapping Paradigms in OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia|first1=Christian|last1=Bittner|first2=Georg|last2=Glasze|work=KN – Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information|volume=68|page=121|date=2018|doi=10.1007/BF03544554|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03544554|url-access=subscription}}{{cite book|first1=Sterling|last1=Quinn|first2=Floyd|last2=Bull|chapter=Understanding Threats to Crowdsourced Geographic Data Quality Through a Study of OpenStreetMap Contributor Bans|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8DL3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|title=Geospatial Information System Use in Public Organizations: How and Why GIS Should be Used in the Public Sector|editor-first=Nicolas A.|editor-last=Valcik|publisher=Routledge|location=New York City|date=2019|pages=84–85|isbn=978-1-4987-6764-4|via=Google Books}}
History
OpenGeofiction was founded in September 2013 by the German software developer Thilo Stapff and urban planner Johannes Bouchain.{{cite conference|title=Opengeofiction: Using OSM Software in Mapping a Fictional Planet|first1=Thilo|last1=Stapff|first2=Johannes|last2=Bouchain|conference=State of the Map Europe|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation|location=Karlsruhe|date=13 June 2014|url=https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/6/60/Sotm-eu-2014-booklet.pdf#page=9}}{{cite web|title=Opengeofiction – Die exakten Koordinaten des Imaginären|first=Johannes|last=Bouchain|work=Stadtkreation-Blog|location=Hamburg|date=21 October 2022|url=https://blog.stadtkreation.de/opengeofiction-die-exakten-koordinaten-des-imaginaeren/|language=de}}
Content
OpenGeofiction portrays a verisimilar world based on modern technology but fictitious geography and culture. Both the natural and built environment are represented. The map tiles produced by the project are in Web Mercator projection.{{cite web|title=OpenGeoFiction: fictitious maps in gvSIG Desktop|first=Mario|last=Carrera|work=gvSIG blog|publisher=gvSIG Association|location=Valencia|date=4 April 2018|accessdate=10 September 2024|url=https://blog.gvsig.org/2018/04/04/opengeofiction-fictitious-maps-in-gvsig-desktop/}}
Participation
OpenGeofiction allows anyone with a free account to contribute directly to the map through an editor such as the iD Web application or the JOSM desktop application. Contributors can focus on various aspects of worldbuilding, including urban design and transportation. Because the project maintains a single integrated fictional world, contributors must harmonize their fictional territories with neighboring territories.{{cite magazine|title=Get Lost In These Extremely Detailed Maps Of A Fictional Continent|first=Kelsey D.|last=Atherton|work=Popular Science|location=New York City|date=5 November 2013|accessdate=7 September 2024|url=https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/get-lost-these-extremely-detailed-maps-fictional-continent/}}{{cite magazine|title=World Showcase: MedwedianPresident's Medwedia|work=Worldbuilding Magazine|publisher=Worldbuilding Society|date=August 2019|pages=63–65|url=https://www.worldbuildingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/WBM_V3I4_Geography.pdf#page=33}} Thousands of users have contributed to the project.{{cite podcast|title=Johannes Bouchain from GeoFiction|first=Kurt|last=Sasso|work=Two Geeks Talking|publisher=TGT Media|date=21 July 2014|accessdate=10 September 2024|url=https://tgtmedia.com/podcast/johannes-geofiction/}}
Uses
Places can be mapped in OpenGeofiction to illustrate stories or establish scenes for role-playing games.{{cite web|title=OpenGeoFiction, crea mapas inventados con el editor de OpenStreetMap|first=Rebeca|last=Polo|work=WWWhat's New|location=Barcelona|date=11 November 2013|accessdate=10 September 2024|url=https://wwwhatsnew.com/2013/11/11/opengeofiction-crea-mapas-inventados-con-el-editor-de-openstreetmap/|language=es}} OpenGeofiction map tiles can be loaded into applications such as gvSIG for geospatial analysis. In 2018, OpenGeofiction data was used to model urban population movements in a hypothetical emergency evacuation using argument technology.{{cite conference|title=CISpaces.org: From Fact Extraction to Report Generation|first1=Federico|last1=Cerutti|first2=Timothy J.|last2=Norman|first3=Alice|last3=Toniolo|first4=Stuart E.|last4=Middleton|editor1-first=Sanjay|editor1-last=Modgil|editor2-first=Katarzyna|editor2-last=Budzynska|editor3-first=John|editor3-last=Lawrence|conference=COMMA 2018|series=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications|publisher=IOS Press|volume=305|date=2018|pages=269–280|doi=10.3233/978-1-61499-906-5-269|url=https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sem03/comma-2018-final.pdf}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{Official website|https://opengeofiction.net/}}
- [https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/index.php/Main_Page OpenGeofiction Wiki]{{snd}} contributor guides and documentation of fictional mapped places
{{OpenStreetMap}}
{{Volunteered geographic information}}
Category:Internet properties established in 2013