Hey I was wondering if anyone on here creates imaginary cities on this site and if it was okay. I am currently doing an imaginary city in realistic settings in the US in the state of Washington. Input is welcome since I am a new member.
Thanks!
OpenStreetMap
Hey I was wondering if anyone on here creates imaginary cities on this site and if it was okay. I am currently doing an imaginary city in realistic settings in the US in the state of Washington. Input is welcome since I am a new member.
Thanks!
Discussion
Comment from lyx on 14 October 2010 at 16:28
I suggest not to create imaginary cities in the main OSM database; users here might find some unfriendly words like "vandalism" for it. What you can do is to setup your own osm database server and use the osm software to create imaginary cities in your own database; information on how to setup your own environment could be found on the wiki. In "our" osm database we try to build a map of what is really there, with the goal of having the best possible map eventually.
Comment from comsomol on 14 October 2010 at 16:55
Please don't - this is a map of the real world.
Comment from Richard on 14 October 2010 at 17:24
Absolutely do not create imaginary cities in the main OpenStreetMap database. People use this map for navigation. It won't be much use if you've drawn a city where there isn't one.
If you really want to, you could use the test server at http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/ . But bear in mind this may be wiped at any time.
Comment from andygates on 14 October 2010 at 17:39
I was thinking about this recently, on holiday with a bunch of deep Tolkien nerds - could you do an Open Middle Earth Map (subject to pesky copyright)? Yes, you could -- but absolutely *not* on the main site! You'd have to set up a separate server running the OSM software, and your own planet file.
The software's open-source so I'm pretty sure there is no restriction on using it. If you're strong in the ways of the nerd, I'd love to see it done. The OSM code is described from here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/The_Rails_Port
Comment from lucadelu on 14 October 2010 at 19:23
Please don't create an imaginary city. This is a free geodatabase of real World, we use this for pleasure but also for business, here the data must be real!
regard
Luca
Comment from Anna_AG on 14 October 2010 at 21:29
Yes - copy all of the above - OSM is VERY MUCH and ONLY real world - Imaginary anything would destroy the credibility of OSM, a very important opensource project which benefits a lot of people around the world.
To be honest it would be wasted effort for you, because people would notice, review, check, then very quickly correct / delete erroneous entries. There are a lot of OSMers out there checking the database every day who know their area and take great pride in knowing it is as accurate as can be.
That all said....top marks for asking first !
b
Comment from Mafketel on 15 October 2010 at 08:40
I am not sure he got it......
There seems to be some edits with an imaginary tag in his name.
Don't know the area not going to do anything about it.