OpenGeofiction
Hello to the OGF World!
I read in some of the history books how Maria Theresa, queen of Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, after some land were liberated from the ottoman rule decided to freely give large parts of land to the peasants from all around her kingdoms. So I decided to do something similar. ;)
As I noticed that as I’m mapping I start to repeat the same schema everywhere. So to introduce some diversity I’ll give a possibility to the everyone here to map some lands of my country. As my way of the mapping is largely historical - I start some town in the medieval ages and develop it modifying, changing, adapting urban elements to the new centuries - so we are going to do it that way :
imagine you’re somewhere between 1200 - 1800, and you were given the opportunity to take some land, in the countryside or inside some town, and map whatever you want : some family farm, manufacture, family countryside villa, shrine, college, etc. and name it - and it will be integrated in my work - i’ll develop it and it might become: town, protected historical heritage …
*Explore little bit my country : http://opengeofiction.net/#map=9/-45.4438/36.5323
*Explore the topography: http://wiki.opengeofiction.net/wiki/images/f/fc/TOPO_map_of_Montran.png
*the north of the country is reserved for French, west for Danish and rest for English
*the north is Switzerland-Austria like, south-west Tuscany like, and the rest: north France, north Germany, south England, Benelux like.
*be creative, be free, map wherever you want, do not delete existing elements and good luck!
*no permissions needed
I hope you will be generous ;)
Discussion
Comment from The_Cute_Chick on 22 February 2018 at 06:36
It is cool of an idea that a country is still living in its Dark Ages, whereas most are living in the technological/modern age!
Comment from LemonKing on 22 February 2018 at 09:27
I like the idea that you start mapping history and then develop it further toward present. Even more, I like a model of cooperation where areas are developed by different mappers at different stages. The result will probably be more realistic than a typical straightforward planning of a whole country by a single mapper. My own country is quite different, so it would take some time for me to plan a historical mapping project as you suggested, but I seriously consider taking on the challenge! :)
Comment from Portopolis on 23 February 2018 at 03:12
I wouldn’t touch your country because it is just too beautiful, the amount of work you have put into the mapped medieval towns is on another level that I simply wouldn’t participate as any contribution I make would be sub-par.