Street and footprint positions.
The Old City layer keeps the geometry recorded in the dated source snapshot, including buildings later absent from live map data.
A city held in memory.
UNWAN preserves a playable snapshot of Gaza Old City streets and building footprints dated 6 October 2023, then clearly separates that geographic record from interpreted height, architecture, narrative, and the surrounding compressed world.
What is preserved—and what is not.
The dated Old City crop uses OpenStreetMap-derived streets and building footprints at one world unit per metre. It is an archival game layer, not a current conditions map.
Height, façade, and use.
Where the source does not provide complete architectural detail, UNWAN uses clearly disclosed artistic interpretation. Fictional story uses do not claim to document a real household or building.
The connected region.
Roads and places beyond the surveyed Old City crop are connected through an authored game-scale region. They are not a 1:1 reconstruction or navigation system.
Historic places represented.
Named heritage references use institutional and municipal sources. Buildings remain standing in the game as an intact city-memory reference, including places verified as damaged after the baseline period.
Great Omari Mosque
الجامع العمري الكبير
Represented through its layered prayer hall, court, pointed portal, and square-to-octagonal minaret.
UNESCO · Historic Centre of Gaza ↗Suq al-Qaysariyya
سوق القيسارية
A narrow Mamluk covered market adjoining the Great Omari Mosque, interpreted as a shaded pointed-vault lane with small goldsmith shops.
Gaza Municipality · al-Daraj quarter ↗Qasr al-Basha
قصر الباشا
A Mamluk-origin civic complex also known as Pasha’s Palace or Radwan Palace, represented around a garden and pointed ceremonial portal.
Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ↗Church of Saint Porphyrius
كنيسة القديس برفيريوس
A Greek Orthodox heritage place represented as a compact longitudinal church within a walled monastic court.
Patriarchate of Jerusalem · historical churches ↗Sheikh ‘Ijlin Mosque
مسجد الشيخ عجلين
The contemporary Khalil al-Wazir Mosque is placed near the coastal road as an interpreted regional reference rather than part of the Old City survey.
West Java Government · 2022 opening ↗Saint Hilarion Monastery
دير القديس هيلاريون / تل أم عامر
A UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site included in the regional heritage index, not relocated into the Gaza City playable area.
UNESCO World Heritage · Saint Hilarion ↗Use limits
A cultural experience, not a live map.
UNWAN cannot show every place, history, condition, or Palestinian experience. It must not be used for navigation, address lookup, damage assessment, present-day control, road access, or safety decisions. The historic layer records a date; it does not freeze Palestinian life in the past.