ED Astrometrics: Maps and Visualizations

[Orvidius]

Apologies everyone, I hadn't checked in on the forum here for quite some time, and some of the automatic server patching broke the video creator. I got it back up and running a few weeks ago, but it looks like it broke again. I'm looking into it.

 

[Orvidius]

OK, I think this is working again. I needed to add one more error check, and restart some services.

 

[LeBonk]

OK, I think this is working again. I needed to add one more error check, and restart some services.

Appreciate it, though it looks like text is still not displaying

https://imgur.com/hJr4qTf

 

[Orvidius]

Appreciate it, though it looks like text is still not displaying

https://imgur.com/hJr4qTf

Yeah, it looks like something got goofed up with the fonts too. I've installed a new font for it to use, so it should be working again now.

 

[Orvidius]

I added a galmap shortcut that turns on the pin sets for the major carrier projects (DSSA, STAR, Pioneer, and IGAU):

https://edastro.com/galmap/carrierProjects

 

[Orvidius]

FYI, added an API info page that consolidates some info about the GEC POI retrieval APIs, and also the new star-system retrieval API that was recently added:

https://edastro.com/api-details.html

 

[Eahlstan]

Could you please add the system main star in your planetary data dumps? That would be very useful.

 

[Orvidius]

Could you please add the system main star in your planetary data dumps? That would be very useful.

Were you thinking name, or type, or both? I've been trying to keep the files at least somewhat lean since they're pretty huge.

EDIT: For the moment, I'm adding the main star type as a column at the end for all of the body dumps, and for the system dump too.

 

[Eahlstan]

Were you thinking name, or type, or both? I've been trying to keep the files at least somewhat lean since they're pretty huge.

I was thinking about the type. Would be useful to see what to target to increase the odds to find something.

 

[Orvidius]

I was thinking about the type. Would be useful to see what to target to increase the odds to find something.

OK cool, I was just adding that. The next run should have the main star type on all the body dumps, and the system dump as well.

 

[Eahlstan]

OK cool, I was just adding that. The next run should have the main star type on all the body dumps, and the system dump as well.

Fantastic. Thanks very much.

 

[Unifex]

Hs anyone asked for a filter to the video generator that tracks just the users Fleet Carrier?

 

[Orvidius]

BTW, I've added an "Inhabited Systems" layer in the interactive map.

Example Link: https://edastro.com/galmap/?layer=heatmap&pins=inhabited#242,0,58,7

Also, animated video of the colonization expansion, here:

Elite:Dangerous Astrometrics

edastro.com

 

[Orvidius]

Also worth noting, EDAstro has started constructing an Astrometric Observatory system, in HIP 19187, located near to the Pleiades.

 

[Orvidius]

I've added a spreadsheet for systems that are possible colonization candidates. That is, systems with no government or economy, that are within 16 lightyears of a station with colonization services. Currently the list is about 116k systems.

https://edastro.com/mapcharts/files/colony-candidates.zip

 

[Maolagin]

I've added a spreadsheet for systems that are possible colonization candidates. That is, systems with no government or economy, that are within 16 lightyears of a station with colonization services. Currently the list is about 116k systems.

https://edastro.com/mapcharts/files/colony-candidates.zip

Sure puts in perspective all those posts complaining of not being able to find an open system to claim!

 

[CRYPTON1X]

I've added a spreadsheet for systems that are possible colonization candidates. That is, systems with no government or economy, that are within 16 lightyears of a station with colonization services. Currently the list is about 116k systems.

https://edastro.com/mapcharts/files/colony-candidates.zip

IF this was true then explain this...
Bleia Eohn YF-L d9-27 ingame shows 2,252.29LY without any colonization

9.38157E+11​

Bleia Eohn YF-L d9-27

F (White) Star

133.135​

3​

2​

17​

2​

0​

0​

3​

18​

12.0625​

-35.375​

-127.781​

 

[varonica]

IF this was true then explain this...
Bleia Eohn YF-L d9-27 ingame shows 2,252.29LY without any colonization

9.38157E+11​

Bleia Eohn YF-L d9-27

F (White) Star

133.135​

3​

2​

17​

2​

0​

0​

3​

18​

12.0625​

-35.375​

-127.781​

Explain what? Currently colonisation is only possible from bubble systems, not sure what exactly you are making a point of.

 

[Maolagin]

Explain what? Currently colonisation is only possible from bubble systems, not sure what exactly you are making a point of.

No, the issue is that there's some weird entries in the file - there's a few cases like that Bleia Eohn one where a star halfway across the galaxy shows up with the coordinates and other data of some star in the bubble.

 

[varonica]

No, the issue is that there's some weird entries in the file - there's a few cases like that Bleia Eohn one where a star halfway across the galaxy shows up with the coordinates and other data of some star in the bubble.

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.