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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org.

There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community

https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

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submitted 8 months ago by BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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This project has its own enforced policy: its purpose is a pure artistic creation project (or game with its rules) which forbids using any data representing real object on Earth. Even the displayed names must be invented.

The map is in constant evolution (work in progress), it may evolve over time more rapidly and more dramatically than what occurs on real Earth. It has its own imaginary local events similar to what exists on Earth: hurricanes, floodings, volcanoes, political events, dictatures or democratic processes; islands or continents may appear suddenly or disappear completely; cities may be destroyed or replanned completely differently by their authors in their approved area of work; shipping lines or roads may appear or disappear, a previously dry desert could become a rain forest...

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[–] testman@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

this could be used as map data for an open source GTA clone

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

As this uses the same toolset, tags, etc as OSM, the real osm world map could be used the same way.

Actually there are existing games which use osm as a map. In 112 Operator you play as an operator and you have to send rescue forces to real locations on osm. At the beginning of the game you can select any real city in the world: https://store.steampowered.com/app/793460/112_Operator/

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@infeeeee @testman they also have a game called Delivery Inc where you are a dispatcher for a food delivery/taxi service using real roads.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

It's here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793260/Delivery_INC/

Same publisher, I guess gameplay is also similar. There is also one in the works from them, you have to defend from zombies anywhere, and it seems it will in 3d unlike the previous ones: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1465460/Infection_Free_Zone/ I hope they will use the Simple 3D Building scheme.

[–] version_unsorted@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

This is really neat!