rules:regions

Regions

The whole world is divided into regions. Most regions are political. A region can have sub regions. The biggest regions are states (e.g. Germany). These are mostly divided into smaller regions, like federal states (e.g. Bavaria). The number of lower levels differs from country to country (it could be up to 7 or more sub levels).

To obtain this division tree we use OpenStreetmap data via Nominatim Services.

Each such region can generate up to two bonus badges.

  • one Ruler, for the player who has the most badge value in that region,
  • one Mapper, for the player who has visited the most quadrants in that region.

Note: The list of regions to score, i.e. generate such badges, is manually redacted based on play activity and depth in hierarchy among other criteria. A part of this decision process is visualized on these page: Region Badges Preview. Also see the corresponding part of our FAQ.

Note: There is a time delay for mapper badges. This is for a bit of data hiding and (some kind of) privacy, as a mapper badge actually indicates, you have played in that place, unlike ruler badges which might go to players who have never been in that particular region, but their badges have been dropped by other players.

Note: When a new player starts playing, their first two regions are “activated” even if there is less activity than would usually be required to award badges. This is to encourage new players and adapt the number of regions locally.

To determine to which region a quadrant belongs, Badgers actually uses OSM service Nominatim. Such a mapping can be non unique, i.e. some quadrants overlap two or more regions. To get a one to one correspondence, the region of the center of a quadrant in the sense of Nominatim is considered the region a quadrant belongs to. Ah, well, and sometimes, if it is feasible or way too bad, we manually improve Nominatim mappings in our database.

#Mapper of Eisacktal - Valle Isarco to #4N3G4ZPK.
28.03.2024

Player 4N3G4ZPK takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Innsbruck to #QueenOfNowhere.
28.03.2024

Player QueenOfNowhere takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Marktgemeinde Jenbach to #4N3G4ZPK.
28.03.2024

Player 4N3G4ZPK takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Gemeinde Langkampfen to #4N3G4ZPK.
28.03.2024

Player 4N3G4ZPK takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Dierdorf to #DasUmmi.
28.03.2024

Player DasUmmi takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Verwaltungsverband Durmersheim to #XLV1.
28.03.2024

Player XLV1 takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Weingarten to #Bomo.
28.03.2024

Player Bomo takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Zoersel to #Bart23.
28.03.2024

Player Bart23 takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Tiefgraben to #Knuspakex.
28.03.2024

Player Knuspakex takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of South-City-Bult to #MasterFlo.
28.03.2024

Player MasterFlo takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Centre to #Anolis.
28.03.2024

Player Anolis takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Oberfürberg to #InI4.
28.03.2024

Player InI4 takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Waldstadt II to #Gaensebluemchen.
28.03.2024

Player Gaensebluemchen takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Schöneberg to #Derholzspan.
28.03.2024

Player Derholzspan takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Moabit to #drii.
28.03.2024

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Mitte to #drii.
28.03.2024

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Berlin to #Megachip.
28.03.2024

Player Megachip takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Liguria to #wuffel.
27.03.2024

Player wuffel takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of South Australia to #Tubbyand.
27.03.2024

Player Tubbyand takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Demitz-Thumitz to #VincentVega23.
27.03.2024

Player VincentVega23 takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

  • Last modified: 6 years ago
  • by Frank Nestel