Sol centric vs Galaxy centric
I might have missed something (entirely possible), but I don't quite understand the need for converting the SB3 coordinates to being Sol-centric again.
Imo it seems better to stay with whatever FD uses - We might get future info dumps, or some stuff might even turn up ingame or... whatever.
Ie. it seems to me using the galaxy centric coords are more "future-proof".
So why are people gravitating towards Sol centric coordinates (or I'm I just miss interpreting that)
Sol centric vs Galaxy centric
The real problem right now is the double use of system names as Athan pointed out in post #986. Shouldn't they be unique?
@wolverine2710: Have you asked Michael Brookes about that?
I'd expect it's a bug. Anyone know if Athan put in a ticket?
It's not galaxy centric, as can be read here.
Utterly so.It's completely irrelevant which system you use
I can very well understand the frustration, I don't really know what to do with my map either. Leaving it as it is, with Beta 2 coordinates is pointless, so I'll likely just replace them with the new ones provided by Michael Brooks. I spent the last couple of days improving my coordinate finder tool, at least this may be useful at some point (either after gamma or release).
New star name? Ross 690
Distance to Jula Oh? 159.78
Distance to Igororai? 156.88
Distance to Markanomovoy? 144.21
Evaluated 2202 locations
----- After exhaustively searching around the candidate regions resulting from trilateration, it evaluted a total of 2202 locations, and found 7 matching locations.
The low ball outlier: Never did I get less than 51 candidates that passed the reverse distance check (on *all* distances)
So.. With just 2dp, reverse distance checking isn't worth much.
for (var r = 0; r < refs.length; r++) {
var sumdistdelta = 0;
sumdistdelta += Math.abs(refs[r].dist - +(Math.round(+(candidates[c].subtract(refs[r].coords).flength() + 'e' + edp))+ 'e-' + edp));
}
var sumdistdelta = 0;
for (var r = 0; r < refs.length; r++) {
sumdistdelta += Math.abs(refs[r].dist - +(Math.round(+(candidates[c].subtract(refs[r].coords).flength() + 'e' + edp))+ 'e-' + edp));
}
-28.40625 ,47.8125 ,-21.96875
-28.40625 ,47.84375 ,-21.96875
-28.40625 ,47.875 ,-22
-28.40625 ,47.90625 ,-22
Ross 690 -28.40625,47.8125,-21.96875
Jula Oh -184, 44.78125, -58.1875
Igororai -176.25, 30.75, -71.59375
Markanomovoy -67.625, 17.0625, -50.21875
I wrote a little proof-of-concept utility this evening to try out this idea, along with a couple of related ideas, and it ended up working surprisingly well.
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I'll try to get it cleaned up and released, although I might not be able to get it out until after the weekend. Maybe my description will at least spark some ideas that others can use![]()
Which one doesn't matter as you point out - But I thought it would ease usage to go with whatever would require less CPU cycles to have to convert all the time for everyone.
I have actually read that post before - and not forgotten either.
I just saw someone in here refer to the new coords as being galaxy centric - So used that terminology.
Utterly so.
It's more a matter of me having to finish the TGC - And have to settle on something to actually store in the DB
Which one doesn't matter as you point out - But I thought it would ease usage to go with whatever would require less CPU cycles to have to convert all the time for everyone.
So I'm now a bit torn - yes the GM map is (still - could change?) Sol centric - But those chiming in here seems to go with the Galaxy centric coords in their apps.
So unless I hear differently - I'll go with galaxy centric for the TGC (easy to change if need be)
If you have a more profound way of picking one over the other I'll gladly hear it.
Sol centric vs Galaxy centric
I might have missed something (entirely possible), but I don't quite understand the need for converting the SB3 coordinates to being Sol-centric again.
Imo it seems better to stay with whatever FD uses - We might get future info dumps, or some stuff might even turn up ingame or... whatever.
Ie. it seems to me using the galaxy centric coords are more "future-proof".
So why are people gravitating towards Sol centric coordinates (or I'm I just miss interpreting that)
The real problem right now is the double use of system names as Athan pointed out in post #986. Shouldn't they be unique?
@wolverine2710: Have you asked Michael Brookes about that?
It is a heliocentric rectangular system with three principal axes in the direction of galactic center, galactic rotation, and north galactic pole.