OpenGeoFiction

OpenGeoFiction (opengeofiction.net, shortcut: OGF) is a website that uses OpenStreetMap tools to make a fictional world. It was created on September 1st, 2023 by Thilo Stapff and Johannes Bouchain. It is designed where mappers create a fictional world about the size of earth itself, with a totally different set of countries and continents.https://web.archive.org/web/20240706021224/https://opengeofiction.net/#map=2/0.0/0.0&layers=B
It has a wiki, which is the OpenGeoFiction Wiki. There is a forum for general discussion and announcements. Its servers are maintained with Apache web servers.
==History==
OpenGeofiction was originally started by Thilo Stapff and Johannes Bouchain as an experiment based on the software of the OpenStreetMap® project. The website had its domain registered on November 22nd, 2012https://web.archive.org/web/20240706021628/https://www.whois.com/whois/opengeofiction.net and was launched on September 1, 2013.
On August 2nd, 2014, the wiki of OpenGeoFiction was launched to describe the places in the OGF world or as a platform for guides such as making realistic countries or towns from scratch. Normally new users will attain a wiki user account after they acquire a territory or sending a request to the site administrators. However, there are rules against copyright violations and overwikification, a term used for well-written places with little mapping.https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/index.php/Main_Page
A forum of OpenGeoFiction was introduced recently in August 2017 after requests for a better platform for discussions. It is currently the primary centre for open discussions, and there is a debate on what the role of User Diaries will be in the future.
On August 16th, 2021, the wiki was redesigned with MediaWiki.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240706023540/https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history
==External Links==
*OpenGeoFiction on the Geopedia.
*OpenGeoFiction on the OpenStreetMap Wiki.
==References==
Category:Websites
Category:Tool websites
Category:Websites registered in 2013
Category:Websites with the .net domain