I’d love to share an idea , and I’d love to hear your thoughts!
You start the game in your customizable home, set in the real city or village where you’ve contributed to OpenStreetMap. Step outside, and the world comes alive, literally!
Spawn in Your Home Log in with your OpenStreetMap account, and your avatar spawns inside your home. Decorate your space, hang your mapping badges on the wall, and track your OSM stats in a stylish dashboard.
Meet Nearby Mappers
As you walk outside, the game detects other mappers nearby (within a set radius who are also online) visit their homes, wave hello, or drop by their mapping garden. You can voice chat or text chat live, just like hanging out in real life, but inside your mapping universe.
Explore the Open World
Use the real OpenStreetMap data to explore your neighborhood or teleport across borders. Visit cities and villages around the world with just a tap , walk the streets of Tokyo, Dhaka, Nairobi, or Berlin.
Teleport and Travel
Traveling is easy! Just pull up the interactive world map and teleport to another mapper’s location or a famous OSM landmark. Explore their area, talk to them, and even start a mapping mission together.
So, what do you think?
Note: It’s not any PR post or not any official post, I just shared my idea which I love to see what community thinks.
Some thoughts are universal and drop in again and again.
OSM as a Metaverse? How do you image the UI? 2D/3D/VR?
What technique do you think of, Java/-script, Wasm, C, Rust, …
May be with https://thirdroom.io
In a way, and partly your idea already is real.
At the SotM 2017 Passau, I was just coding my OSMgo.org
In this days I added a multiplayer mode and chat to it.
Start it, pic a place and use the smily. Key C vor chat.
Tell me a time, to meet.
A first roll of OSM is: If you wish something to be, start doing it yourselves. You will always find help here.
You could improve you strengths for OSM and programming by creating the first(?) OSM chat:
You will find a tool to run a “slippy” map with a view lines of code.
Use GitHub.IO (or other repo-systems?) to run it (RTFM)
By a 2nd mouse click open a dialogue to set a message bubble on the map position.
Send the message to your server to store the message bubble (the last 100)
You will need NodeJS or PHP for an API on the server, to store and offer the bubbles request.
The map needs to poll the api and show the bubbles to all users of your map.
Ant then let’s see, how the OSM user will gamble around, replay and start a chat.
Ok, to be more precise, I ment a “OSM-Map-Chat”, a chat that happens on the (slippy) map. It’s not yet a Metaverse but the same idea: Be in your own virtual place, meet, chat.
