Galaxy Map

alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

I have built a tool which can collect maps from players, remove all colours, warplanets and info, and make a list of the size, coordinates and names of all planets entered.

With this, it is possible to make a fairly accurate version of the galaxy in svg, or a minimap in png
I ran this project on kosmor.de, and got quite a reasonable map... so, i think it's about time for .com's turn

Watch this space... probably some time today, I'll make it ready for use

EDIT: for those who would like to see the result i got from the .de version after a while (for comparison with the .com galaxy)

note: both of these pics are from kosmor.de
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alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

http://www.rebelstudentalliance.co.uk/kosmor/map_neutral_com.html

Enter the source of an SVG file in the big box, then the name of a planet on the map in the top box, and the coordinates of that planet in the next 2 boxes.
Then press Run Map Tool
if you see a page with the names of lots of your planets on... it's probably worked.

Note: The planet name must be given in the form it appears, ie make sure there are no spaces/tabs, and it must begin with a capital letter.

The total number of planets currently known is displayed here:
click here
Currently 1155
edit: 3130
edit: 5700
edit: 8844
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alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

hmm... it seems to be having a technical difficulty of the database wiping itself... i'll try to keep backups, i have one from early this morning, anyone who entered a map since... could they please try again?

/alpha
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Shadowmaster · Guest

i can never figure out how to use any of these tools! not very good with program things.

alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

well... the problem of the disappearing database hasnt gone away... but i am making regular backups to minimize dataloss
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MePha · Guest

kosmor.de (in future i will update this with >3000 more planets)

Locutus · Guest

Can you create a page with all the planet names, as we upload them?

Angron · Guest

wow so is this what the kosmor universe looks like. it looks realli damn cool

alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

and it is RELEASED!

those of you wanting the svg version of the map can goto http://www.rebelstudentalliance.co.uk/cgi-bin/universe-com/svg.pl for the SVG...

http://www.rebelstudentalliance.co.uk/cgi-bin/universe-com/mini_map.pl for 600x600 png (scale 1 in 20)
http://www.rebelstudentalliance.co.uk/cgi-bin/universe-com/mini_map.pl?x=0&y=0
and you can change the x and y in the url to move the pointer

now, using the search, there is a link to show this planet's location on the mini-map

for example:
http://www.rebelstudentalliance.co.uk/cgi-bin/universe-com/search.pl?name=Unix
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mikeyp200 · Guest

What is an SVG sOURCE AND DO MOST HOME COMPUTERS HAVE ONE?

alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

if you ever use the button of the kosmor map page labelled "SVG" - then this is the same as this... it's just larger, and differently coloured... and a few ammendments
but the general design is the same

the source of an SVG is the text which makes it up, you can usually view this if you can view the svg... either save the svg to your computer, then open with notepad, or right click when viewing the svg, and press view source

SVG is a language which makes pictures, usually graphics, but they look more like html (svg is xml based, as is xhtml)
this means that it's really a set of instructions, telling a computer how to draw it, rather than actually a picture

if you open your kosmor map (png) and try and zoom in... it'll look ugly, and there is no more detail if you zoom in more
because svg is written in xml, it redraws it when you zoom in, so if you zoom in a thousand times on a diagonal line, there is no pixelisation

it is also useful (especially in kosmor), because it's much much easier for a computer to read svg than it is for it to read png or other raster image formats

if you want to know more... try looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG
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alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

this is a slightly more complete version of the .de galaxy
and

is the .com galaxy so far to the same scale
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mikeyp200 · Guest

Thanks! How do you know this stuff? I think I did it right.... and learned something... let me know if it worked if you can...

alphabravo · Major Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 827 Location: UK

it's not your fault... but my db wiped itself when you tried yours... sometime soon i will give it a proper database backend... but for the moment i'm trying to add a load of extra planets from merthos's big map (see the universe thread in question and answers forum)

if you want to try again... please go ahead..
i'll be working on it for a while... so if it crashes again, i can fix it quickly from my backups Wink

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