Sunday, 25 April 2021

A project to use OpenStreetMap data to create a fantasy version of the Earth

I like to play fantasy RPGs

I like to provide a richness in the settings - it provides a real sense of immersion

Drawing detailed maps, especially maps at many different levels of detail for different levels of zoom on the same area is a lot of work.

There is a wealth of detail already available in public domain maps.  But using a detailed map with the existing place names & a 21st Century built environment can lose that valuable sense of immersion.

So I want to be able to re-use existing detailed zoomable maps as campaign maps in fantasy RPGs, but I want to transform them sufficiently that they remain evocative, otherly places.


There are many different words for Earth in the many different languages used on Earth


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