Community Event / Creation Eddb Route Planner

[zip]

Hi there,

I've made a small, crude program that computes routes using the excellent EDDB database (from http://eddb.io).
Everything should be self explanatory (look for tooltips on labels and messages in the status bar) but feel free to post questions/requests/comments here !

Download it and read the documentation here.

It's free, and will remain free.
For those of you who want to send me a bit of their hard earned money, there is a donation button that links to my Paypal account

PS : I noticed that the wonderful eddb.io website now sports a brand new interface with a (surprise!) multi-hop route planner ! Although this is a great thing because it uses fresh data from the website instead of a once-a-day archive, and because it's easy to use, my tool still is better at finding routes... So I suggest that you try both !

 

[themroc]

Hi zip,

thanks for your effort. I recommend to host the JSON files on your own source, though. If every 3rd party tool is loading those from my server, all depends just on me and the performance of my server. No good

 

[zip]

Hi Themroc !

Maybe I wasn't clear, but my tool is a windows application, not a service on a website...
It downloads the data from your API url when the user requests it (should not be more than once a day, since your JSON archives are daily) and then caches it on the user's computer.
Is that bad ?
I'd check for new data if I could, but you would have to give me a REST url to do this...

If the downloads from my tool are a problem for your (excellent) website, I'll unpublish it, of course. But I hope I won't have to do this...

 

[CmdrBruce]

Hi there,

I've made a small, crude program that computes routes using the excellent EDDB database (from http://eddb.io).
Everything should be self explanatory (look for tooltips on labels and messages in the status bar) but feel free to post questions/requests/comments here !

Download it and read the documentation here.

It's free, and will remain free.
For those of you who want to send me a bit of their hard earned money, there is a donation button that links to my Paypal account

Love the little nifty tool so far!

Thanks!

 

[zip]

Thanks Commander Bruce !

There is a new version (1.0.3):

Quick update to react to changes in the EDDB API.
Added the version number and build date to the status bar at the start of the application.

 

[Sir.Tj]

Unmerged thread.

 

[zip]

Thanks

 

[Poubelle]

Hi zip and thanks for the great app! I think it has one of the best interfaces for searching routes anywhere from the EDDB data!

I think it would be great to add the following features :

- option to filter out stations that have 0 Ls for the distance from arrival (distance from star)
- save filtering options on exit for the next time the app is run
- make it possible to edit the data that is imported from EDDB - it would be mostly usefull to get rid of a station that is invalid (maybe there could be a blacklist)

Keep up the good work!