Discussion What is the most efficient way to crowdsource the 3D system coordinates

Little Angel

Little Angel
This one seems to be working tho:

http://jsfiddle.net/127synat/

Which is the one my tool should be based on... :-/

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And it seems to have 19,833 stars listed in the EDSC!

zOMG!

I take a two week holiday and look what happens.

Can you spare me the back reading and tell me how we went from 700 stars to nearly 20k?

Are these from FD? And are they accurate?

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And my tool is working. I had lost my local copy of the star data when I pulled from BitBucket and I needed to manually update from EDSC, so everything with EDSC is fine.
 
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Little Angel

Little Angel
That's a whole lotta stars!

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filth

filth
Has anyone been using EDSC for distance calculation? Could you provide me an example query to get the distance between 2 stars?
 

Little Angel

Little Angel
I store the last downloaded list of stars locally, and then have the option of auto-updating or manually updating the system list from the EDSC - falling back to the stored list.
 

filth

filth
Little Angel said:
I have not used the distance calculators from EDSC.

I'm using built-in functions that gets the distance between any 2 "Vector3" values (x, y, z).

A quick search reveals:
http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/geometry-solids/distance-two-points.php
http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/routines/r_dist.htm
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Thanks.

Example with 2 Systems:

G. Caeli',80.90625,-83.53125,-30.8125,
Geminorum',19.78125,3.5625,-153.8125,

D=162.636

What unity is that result? LY?
 

Little Angel

Little Angel
filth said:
Thanks.

Example with 2 Systems:

G. Caeli',80.90625,-83.53125,-30.8125,
Geminorum',19.78125,3.5625,-153.8125,

D=162.636

What unity is that result? LY?
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I get 162.6364 as well... so we seem to be on the same track.

I believe that the distances are in Light Years. Now, I don't know this for a fact, but I've been operating under that assumption.
 

filth

filth
Rechecked in game with

'Tau Ceti',-0.375,-11.40625,-3.5,'Gamma1','2014-11-26 15:19:00'
'Zhi',2.1875,-20.53125,-8.96875,'Gamma1','2014-11-26 15:19:00'


They are ~10lY apart. Looks good!
 

codersparks

C
Snuble said:
And there will be more once we start submitting the ones in between...
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I have created a ruby script that will parse the netlog for you current system and then checks if that system exists in the EDSC. If it does not then it will give an audio alert saying "System not found".

This then saves me having to check if each system is in the database - If you want to have a go/play with it, please feel free to download from:

https://github.com/codersparks/elitelogtailer

There are instructions for installation/use in the readme (or at the bottom of the page for those not familiar with github). If you find any problems or think of something that it is missing, please either:
1. Raise an issue here: https://github.com/codersparks/elitelogtailer/issues
2. Fix it yourself and submit a pull request (https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/)

Sparks
 

Snuble

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Hehe, I will have that system on my map long before I visit them. Its part of the method. Note down distances to systems from where I am at. So that unknown system will be found long before heading into the system. I plan on submitting the distances I log for all visited systems, but where this tool could be a good reminder is that for those systems I should also get distances to a few reference systems so it can be calculated precisely.
 

adam

A
codersparks said:
I have created a ruby script that will parse the netlog for you current system and then checks if that system exists in the EDSC. If it does not then it will give an audio alert saying "System not found".

This then saves me having to check if each system is in the database - If you want to have a go/play with it, please feel free to download from:

https://github.com/codersparks/elitelogtailer

There are instructions for installation/use in the readme (or at the bottom of the page for those not familiar with github). If you find any problems or think of something that it is missing, please either:
1. Raise an issue here: https://github.com/codersparks/elitelogtailer/issues
2. Fix it yourself and submit a pull request (https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/)

Sparks
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Hey nice. Tracking the system from the netlog file could let you record a history of where you have travelled, which is something I want
 
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