ED Astrometrics: Maps and Visualizations

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Orvidius said:
I'm considering things like Elite-Astrometrics, Elite-Mapping, EDTM (ED Travel Maps).. Nothing is jumping out at me yet. The latter isn't as appealing in the sense that I can house both the maps, and the video maker there, so it should be a little less specific. EDIT: Another idea is just "Elite-Explorer".
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Orvidius Cartographics

Maps'R'Us

The Galmap Video Corporation (or just Galmap for short)

VIdeos And GRAphics for Elite: Dangerous (or "VI**RA for ED" for short ... hmmm, just googled that, maybe not)
 
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Orvidius

Orvidius
LOL. I love the silly suggestions (and as I said, I've been known to go that way before), but I decided to keep it simple here. The site is now called "Elite: Dangerous Astrometrics", and is at http://edastro.com/

The old URLs should redirect to the new one, if I have it set up right. All of the maps, and the video maker are there. I've also been working on making the site's HTML "responsive", meaning it'll work on different sized screens, including phones. The graphs & maps now update once every 3 days, since Anthor was kind enough to add a 7-day nightly dump for body data.
 

chuci

C
Extraordinary tool. Well done!

(if it's Perl and the libs are sensible and you do get swamped, punting into AWS for the compute shouldn't be too hard)
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
Alec Turner said:
Did you catch the Elite: Dangerous Community fb group or just the official Frontier one?
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Just the community group. I started small by posting to the Mobius groups first, but it didn't get much attention there. So I hit the community group yesterday, and then the subreddit today. Traffic is definitely picking up quickly. It's done a lot of video since this morning. :D

chuci said:
Extraordinary tool. Well done!

(if it's Perl and the libs are sensible and you do get swamped, punting into AWS for the compute shouldn't be too hard)
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Thanks! Huh, hadn't really thought about AWS. It's partially standard modules (mainly the ImageMagick module), but then it calls out to the command line to run ffmpeg (the perl module is a pain to install apparently).
 

chuci

C
Orvidius said:
Thanks! Huh, hadn't really thought about AWS. It's partially standard modules (mainly the ImageMagick module), but then it calls out to the command line to run ffmpeg (the perl module is a pain to install apparently).
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Only thought of Amazon as a cheap(ish) way of digging yourself out of a hole if you Slashdotted yourself. That said, everything you've written seems entirely sensible, and it also sounds like you're on top of things if you've already got a queue in place. Now personally I'm wrestling with the dilemma to generate one or not. So many people have been so so soooo much further than I have :D
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
LOL, the good news is that it's not a competition. Short travels are good travels too! :)

But yeah, it's on a form of virtual server hosting already. Technically I could resize it later if I need to, but the queue should keep things up and running. You can clearly see in the server activity when the reddit post happened this morning though... :D

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Kazahnn

Kazahnn
Absolutely amazing tool ! Thank you very much Cmdr Orvidius.

[video=youtube_share;861KqkcQ6u8]https://youtu.be/861KqkcQ6u8[/video]

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Orvidius

Orvidius
Well, it's continued to run well through the weekend, and usage has fallen back to more of what I think will be the normal "background" traffic. There was a lot more traffic for the first few days, as expected.

I've made some tweaks and fixes to the video creator during that time, including some info about how far through the process it is, when your video is being created. It now handles multiple commanders better as well, particularly cases where they were played simultaneously, so the jumps are all mixed together time-wise.

For some of the larger static maps, I added an estimate of percentage of galaxy represented, with the assumption that there are 400 billion star systems (I can change this setting if the number turns out to be different). It's amusing to see on the visited-systems map, that the visited percentage is showing as 0.004837%. Huge. ;) :D
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Orvidius said:
It's amusing to see on the visited-systems map, that the visited percentage is showing as 0.004837%. Huge. ;) :D
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I've actually taken the liberty of saving that nice black and white heat map you did for the next time I see someone complaining that they can't find anything that hasn't been discovered. The obvious answer that map suggests is ... well don't don't fly backwards and forwards along the same damn routes that every other commander in the galaxy has been following then! :p (he says, having just made a bee line from the crab nebula straight back to the bubble).
 
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Orvidius

Orvidius
I added a chasing zoom view. Whew. That ended up being more of a pain than I expected, but only because of unluckily running out of disk space while testing it, and also some assumptions I made early on in development without this feature. But I think I have it all sorted out now. :)

[video=youtube;WEc6SQFWCEw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEc6SQFWCEw[/video]
 
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