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If you want to actually create you own fictional map you can checkout what I consider my favourite geospatial project of all time: OpenGeoFiction http://opengeo
by chippy 9y ago
If you want to actually create you own fictional map you can checkout what I consider my favourite geospatial project of all time: OpenGeoFiction http://opengeofiction.net/ http://opengeofiction.net/
Imagine an OpenStreetMap (it actually uses the same stack) where you can create your own fictional land - and where you can potentially interact with other people's creations too.
From their FAQ:
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OpenGeofiction (OGF) is based on the OpenStreetMap software platform, which means that all map editors and other tools suitable for OpenStreetMap can be used to build OGF's fictional world. This world is set in modern times, so it doesn't have orcs or elves, but rather power plants, motorways and housing projects. But also picturesque old towns, beautiful national parks and lonely beaches.
Different users view OGF in different ways. For some, it's an exciting creative adventure, a challenging construction puzzle, or an epic tapestry of interwoven stories. For others, it's a relaxing meditation, an immersion in imagination, or perhaps the largest piece of artwork ever created — equal in size to the Earth itself. "
edits - It's not that immediately easy to find the good mapping - http://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/36.4055/119.2868 http://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/36.4055/119.2868 or http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/1.6975/42.5115 http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/1.6975/42.5115 is one example, and I find http://opengeofiction.net/history http://opengeofiction.net/history could be useful to see where people are working on.
- trynewideas 9y agoNot a similar project, but also on the geodata front, someone converted and georeferenced the canon maps for the Pathfinder campaign setting into Shapefiles and KML: http://dungeonetics.com/golarion-geography/index.html http://dungeonetics.com/golarion-geography/index.html And someone else used that data with Leaflet to make a tiled map and a globe: http://oznogon.com/golarion-tile/#6/35.642/0.000 http://oznogon.com/golarion-tile/#6/35.642/0.000
- DanAndersen 9y agoFascinating! This makes me wonder: has anyone tried using machine learning to generate satellite views of a fictional map like this? It seems like something that could be done -- because we have both the ground truth satellite data from Earth, and also a good representation of Earth's roads/map data from OSM, one should be able to infer, given an input OSM map (and some other data like lat/lon or proximity to coastlines), what a plausible satellite image would look like for that map.
- chippy 9y agoGosh that sounds a wonderful ML idea!