ED Astrometrics: Maps and Visualizations

[Maolagin]

That's been the case for, well more years than I have been playing the game, and that's a long time, didn't realise that's what you were commenting on. There are weird entries, I have come across quite a few myself, they haven't been fixed and probably won't be because while we players find a few odd things, with 400b stars and most of the galaxy unexplored there are probably tens of thousands or even millions of examples that players have not yet come across and that would take a long time and a lot of dev time and effort to go through. They will probably never be fixed, the others I have come across haven't been.

To be clear, I wasn't the one complaining about it, for the purposes of this data dump it's a non-issue. Other tools like EDSM do have the correct coordinates for the star CRYPTON1X mentioned, so there might be something in the data pipeline for Orvidius to take a look at. But there's a ton of ways that can happen; I'd tend to initially suspect bad journal data from some player's client.

 

[varonica]

To be clear, I wasn't the one complaining about it, for the purposes of this data dump it's a non-issue. Other tools like EDSM do have the correct coordinates for the star CRYPTON1X mentioned, so there might be something in the data pipeline for Orvidius to take a look at. But there's a ton of ways that can happen; I'd tend to initially suspect bad journal data from some player's client.

A lot of data from early reports was done manually, that is by manually entering the data into forms before the API was available for automatic updating, so that's probably where a lot of erroneous data originates, people make mistakes, but there are areas where the data is impossible to correct due to actual data in the galmap, systems with identical names but different 64 bit ID's for instance cause many issues. I think in an undertaking the size of the galaxy simulation there are going to be odd problems, I mean it is the first time it's ever been done, and no-one has tried to duplicate it since.

 

[Orvidius]

Yeah, there are tons of ways to get erroneous data. If someone travels there and sends the correct coordinates to EDDN, we should get the update.

 

[varonica]

Yeah, there are tons of ways to get erroneous data. If someone travels there and sends the correct coordinates to EDDN, we should get the update.

Yeah I traveled around a lot when I first started playing correcting some old data, I still do it for the suspicious data spreadsheet in Astrometrics, although a some of it can't really be fixed due to the problem of identical star system names causing problems.