Out of game galaxy map for plotting a course across systems?

[Piratescribe]

Is there an OUT of game site or tool that's really good for plotting a course between two systems? With waypoints in between, like the in-game tool does?
That might give the distance and number of jumps it would take to get from A to B?

 

[Deleted member 38366]

There's a few Options, each with specific features limitations :

EDSM Route Plotter : https://www.edsm.net/en/map/planner

Spansh "Tourist" Route Plotter incl. custom Waypoints : https://www.spansh.co.uk/tourist
Spansh Neutron Plotter for fastest travel : https://www.spansh.co.uk/plotter

EDdiscovery Tool has a Route Plotter as well : https://github.com/EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery/wiki/Using-the-Route-Panel

Keep in mind that all of these external Tools only have as many documented Systems as API-using Players have reported.
That means plotting is limited to Waypoints/Systems known to them - while they have alot (!) of Systems in the Database (approx. 60.5 Million), that represents only a fraction of existing Systems.

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If you merely want to quickly check the distance between 2 known (in public Database) Systems, you can use http://edtools.ddns.net/dist.php

 

[Eahlstan]

But be aware that you would only jump to already discovered systems that way.

 

[Sapyx]

There isn't a comprehensive, always-works, every-possible-star-included out-of-game route plotter.

The problem is, such a map would require the co-ordinates of every single star in the ED galaxy to be added to it. Not even FDev have such a database. There's only two ways to get that data: spend centuries visiting each star system in-game and collecting the co-ordinates manually, or replicating the ED Stellar Forge algorithms to calculate the galaxy independently of ED running.

Out-of-game route plotters like those Falconfly listed above use an incomplete database; they can only include stars added to the EDSM database by EDSM users with accurate co-ordinates - a database which is curently at 60 million star systems. Which would be good enough for flitting around the Bubble and near-bubble space, and probably also pretty good at getting to Colonia, the Formidine Rift and Beagle Point. But for actual exploring, or even just for traversing the galaxy from one random point to another, it would be missing an awful lot of stars.

 

[Piratescribe]

There's a few Options, each with specific features limitations :

EDSM Route Plotter : https://www.edsm.net/en/map/planner

Spansh "Tourist" Route Plotter incl. custom Waypoints : https://www.spansh.co.uk/tourist
Spansh Neutron Plotter for fastest travel : https://www.spansh.co.uk/plotter

EDdiscovery Tool has a Route Plotter as well : https://github.com/EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery/wiki/Using-the-Route-Panel

Keep in mind that all of these external Tools only have as many documented Systems as API-using Players have reported.
That means plotting is limited to Waypoints/Systems known to them - while they have alot (!) of Systems in the Database (approx. 60.5 Million), that represents only a fraction of existing Systems.

-- edit --
If you merely want to quickly check the distance between 2 known (in public Database) Systems, you can use http://edtools.ddns.net/dist.php

OH! The EDDiscovery Tool is pretty much exactly what I need!! Thank you!!
The EDSM one looks like it could be cool but I'm not sure it works. It's not coming up with waypoints like the EDD Tool does shrug
Asked and answered! Thank you! o7

 

[Piratescribe]

There isn't a comprehensive, always-works, every-possible-star-included out-of-game route plotter.

The problem is, such a map would require the co-ordinates of every single star in the ED galaxy to be added to it. Not even FDev have such a database. There's only two ways to get that data: spend centuries visiting each star system in-game and collecting the co-ordinates manually, or replicating the ED Stellar Forge algorithms to calculate the galaxy independently of ED running.

Out-of-game route plotters like those Falconfly listed above use an incomplete database; they can only include stars added to the EDSM database by EDSM users with accurate co-ordinates - a database which is curently at 60 million star systems. Which would be good enough for flitting around the Bubble and near-bubble space, and probably also pretty good at getting to Colonia, the Formidine Rift and Beagle Point. But for actual exploring, or even just for traversing the galaxy from one random point to another, it would be missing an awful lot of stars.

Ah, understood, and duly noted!
I basically just need something to give me general ideas and work on plans when I'm not in the game... uhm, like, at work koff koff
Once I have plans I can use the in-game tool to make more accurate plots and paths.