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Hello!
My name is Ulisses de Medeiros and I am Brazilian.
I would like to know the geofiction and have some questions about it:
1- What is the software used to create maps?
2- What are the rules to create a map?
Greetings,
Ulisses de Medeiros
My name is Ulisses de Medeiros and I am Brazilian.
I would like to know the geofiction and have some questions about it:
1- What is the software used to create maps?
2- What are the rules to create a map?
Greetings,
Ulisses de Medeiros
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Re: Presentation
Hi Ulisses, welcome to the Hub!
I've answered your questions respectively below, but in terms of geofiction/micronationalism on the whole, the general idea is more a case of "do what you wish"
1. The MCS uses Microsoft Paint for its primary maps to allow for ease of editing from most people's image editing skills, but we have had other map versions made with more advanced software like Photoshop and GIMP. Depending on your personal skills, you can use whatever software you feel most comfortable with to make your own maps.
2. Without being too vague, there really are no rules. While the MCS is the organisation in charge of the map of Micras, there's no such power in charge of fictitious mapping as a hobby. With any maps you make, they could be as fantastical or as realistic as you want, depending on what you're going to use them for. Micras is the map of a whole planet, but many individual nations' domestic maps only show their own land with no scale or context within a larger world, for example.
If you have any more queries, I'm more than happy to help!
I've answered your questions respectively below, but in terms of geofiction/micronationalism on the whole, the general idea is more a case of "do what you wish"
1. The MCS uses Microsoft Paint for its primary maps to allow for ease of editing from most people's image editing skills, but we have had other map versions made with more advanced software like Photoshop and GIMP. Depending on your personal skills, you can use whatever software you feel most comfortable with to make your own maps.
2. Without being too vague, there really are no rules. While the MCS is the organisation in charge of the map of Micras, there's no such power in charge of fictitious mapping as a hobby. With any maps you make, they could be as fantastical or as realistic as you want, depending on what you're going to use them for. Micras is the map of a whole planet, but many individual nations' domestic maps only show their own land with no scale or context within a larger world, for example.
If you have any more queries, I'm more than happy to help!