Galactic Wiki of IRL places

Biobob

Biobob
Hi Explorers,
after a long period of bounty hunting, I start to explore a little the Galaxy,
to help me finding famous real life place to explore inside Elite I've built a bot to detect them and generate a small wiki.
The process mix data from multiple sources
- EDSM (the community-based coordinates tool for ED)
- the Simbad database to detect real celestial objects (+ using a name resolver because some objects can have multiples name)
- wikipedia to retrieve some descriptions of matching objects.
Everything is in 10 languages (more can be add if necessary), descriptions are and more/less documented according to language (English is often the most complete).




Some data can be irrelevant because it's an auto-process and maybe some real data could not match exactly in ED.
I've focus my work mainly on Nebulas: 215 real object detected (HII region, Planetary nebulas, reflection nebulas, ...)
but got also nice data for Black holes & supergiants.

All feedback are welcome on this first set of data,
I will try to improve the process if there non-matching object on Elite OR matching but with a different type.
 

Biobob

Biobob
Thanks :)

I just add a small feature to export each list (links at the top of each data table)
- JSon for usage on external tool
- CSV for explorers who want to improve their spreadsheet
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
Interesting, I will have a look through this. Do I understand rightly that your bot takes lists of names from RL and does automated searches on the galaxy map to see if they're there, or is it something else?
 

Biobob

Biobob
Jackie Silver said:
Interesting, I will have a look through this. Do I understand rightly that your bot takes lists of names from RL and does automated searches on the galaxy map to see if they're there, or is it something else?
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The bot parse all submitted systems (with coordinates) by players on EDSM then it use a name resolver (Sesame API on Simbad project) to check if the object name match to a RL stellar object name. For Nebulas & star cluster object it's a little more complicated but use a very similar method.
Once done if the object is confirm as a RL object, I make other requests to Simbad to get more details on the object type and Wikipedia to have a full description.
Enough clear ?
 
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Jermus

Jermus
That is a very <add appropriate superlative> service you are providing! "Nice" wouldn't do it justice, "interesting" neither, "both and then some" is hard to read and understand and starts to look cheesy, but you get the message, I hope.

It is also humbling to see the distances of all these objects: they are all so nearby. We really still now hardly anything of the galaxy around us...

And I just found my next waypoint :)
 

shreddog

shreddog
Wow. That's an incredible piece of software you've coded there! It even zooms in and mark the object on the galatic map. Sweet.
 

Biobob

Biobob
Thx all!

The wiki is updated with 3D map everywhere ;)
-add on the homepage a link to most interesting POI (Nebula, black hole & supergiant)
-and on every list pages I've add a new button to see the results on the 3D map, it will help to detect if some system position are totally wrong.


@Jermus: nice if you find a new waypoint, be careful to false positive ;) feedback are welcome if some data are wrong
 

goemon

goemon
amazing stuff! i send you a pm with a spreadsheet containing more...

what would be amazing - i think - is a tool calculating coordinates of the galmap from ra/dec and approximate distance .... searching for the pistol star...
 

Biobob

Biobob
New update for spectral type: using Simbad API, now I retrieve the stellar class for stars (should match with ED data),
so add some improvements on the website:
-show the stellar class on each star object type,
-add stellar class on each item in star lists,
-add a new page for the stellar classification (and some shortcuts on the homepage),
-add spectral type on JSON and CVS export.



goemon said:
amazing stuff! i send you a pm with a spreadsheet containing more...

what would be amazing - i think - is a tool calculating coordinates of the galmap from ra/dec and approximate distance .... searching for the pistol star...
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For calculating coordinates from real data, I'm not a mathematics specialist :) I've see some thread about that but seems to be imprecise.
(NB: have you see my answer to your pm?)
 

Mitch Brewer

Mitch Brewer
I have bookmarked the site but I think this thread should be up in the stickys somewhere. Probably in the Exploration Guides section. Very helpful.
 
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