Tortuga Fleet Astrometrics and Stellar Cartography

xanathon · 02-02-2010, 03:01 AM

Hi Folks.

This is a little project of mine embedding the ingame maps into the Google Maps API.

This is in an early alpha state at the moment, new content and features will be added as the project goes (and I find time). Plus atm this is viewed best in Firefox 3.x, IE 8 works but has glitches (in the navbar some margins are wrong), Safari does funny things with the accordion pushing the main div longer and so on. I think I will do optimising for Firefox and IE but not for Safari and Opera, but that may change.

To get a pleasurable viewport you need a resolution of at least 1024x768 pixels, but you need to maximize the viewport (using F11). Best resolution is 1280x1024 and up.

Since this makes heavy use of the Google Maps Api you need Javascript to be activated.

Planned for the future are for example maps of the sector blocks and a search function.

http://sto.rumschlauen.de/index1.php

Please comment with problems or suggestions.

Thank you.

@Cryptic: I know that the maps are copyrighted to you, I have included a copyright notice and a link back to your site. If you don't want me to offer this in this form, please tell me so and I will take the site offline asap. I did not find any hints about your fanpage policies and seeing the maps used on lots of other websites I thought it would be okay to use them too. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Srikandi · 02-02-2010, 03:05 AM

Xanathon... from the Sims modding world?

/wave

I probably shouldn't say anything about that here, we'll both be flamed to a crisp.

Nice map!

Badem · 02-02-2010, 03:06 AM

Nice

are you planning on breaking it down fursther into sector maps?

xanathon · 02-02-2010, 03:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Srikandi

Xanathon... from the Sims modding world?

/wave

I probably shouldn't say anything about that here, we'll both be flamed to a crisp.

Nice map!

Hi Srikandi, yes the same. Nice to meet you here.

Let them flame, they probably used my Star Trek themed objects in The Sims 2 anyway...

And thanks for the feedback.

xanathon · 02-02-2010, 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Badem

Nice

are you planning on breaking it down fursther into sector maps?

Definitely!

It is somewhat time consuming to get the latitude and longitude coordinates for my mapscale, that's one reaseon that kept me from doing it already.

Matsky · 02-02-2010, 03:25 AM

Awesome work, thanks Xanathu!

xanathon · 02-02-2010, 06:26 AM

Update: Exploration Sectors added.

Vord · 02-02-2010, 06:31 AM

Nice job on this.

YYC26 · 02-02-2010, 06:54 AM

Sweet. Can't wait until I can zoom in and see the detail maps.

Zerikin_Loukbel · 02-02-2010, 06:58 AM

Nice basic map. What we really need is that map overload with one of the systems and searchable.

02-02-2010, 03:01 AM	#1
xanathon Banned Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Remscheid, Germany	Tortuga Fleet Astrometrics and Stellar Cartography Hi Folks. This is a little project of mine embedding the ingame maps into the Google Maps API. This is in an early alpha state at the moment, new content and features will be added as the project goes (and I find time). Plus atm this is viewed best in Firefox 3.x, IE 8 works but has glitches (in the navbar some margins are wrong), Safari does funny things with the accordion pushing the main div longer and so on. I think I will do optimising for Firefox and IE but not for Safari and Opera, but that may change. To get a pleasurable viewport you need a resolution of at least 1024x768 pixels, but you need to maximize the viewport (using F11). Best resolution is 1280x1024 and up. Since this makes heavy use of the Google Maps Api you need Javascript to be activated. Planned for the future are for example maps of the sector blocks and a search function. http://sto.rumschlauen.de/index1.php Please comment with problems or suggestions. Thank you. @Cryptic: I know that the maps are copyrighted to you, I have included a copyright notice and a link back to your site. If you don't want me to offer this in this form, please tell me so and I will take the site offline asap. I did not find any hints about your fanpage policies and seeing the maps used on lots of other websites I thought it would be okay to use them too. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

02-02-2010, 03:06 AM	#3
Badem Career Officer Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire	Nice are you planning on breaking it down fursther into sector maps? __________________ This is the place of sand and sorrow. This place is the romantic comedy that makes you realise how lonely you are. The order that looks so tasty but which you didn't order. This place makes you feel like a child in Eritrea looking into a McDonalds and crying softly because your arms have become too weak to open the doors. This is the place where elephants come to die and whales sing their melancholic songs of oblivion.

02-02-2010, 03:25 AM	#6
Matsky Career Officer Join Date: Jan 2010	Awesome work, thanks Xanathu! __________________ My STO Blog: http://startrekonlineblog.blogspot.com/

02-02-2010, 06:31 AM	#8
Vord Career Officer Join Date: Nov 2009	Nice job on this. __________________ Ad Astra Per Aspera Semper Exploro

02-02-2010, 03:05 AM	#2
Srikandi Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2010	Xanathon... from the Sims modding world? /wave I probably shouldn't say anything about that here, we'll both be flamed to a crisp. Nice map!

02-02-2010, 06:26 AM	#7
xanathon Banned Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Remscheid, Germany	Update: Exploration Sectors added.

02-02-2010, 06:54 AM	#9
YYC26 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008	Sweet. Can't wait until I can zoom in and see the detail maps.

02-02-2010, 06:58 AM	#10
Zerikin_Loukbel Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010	Nice basic map. What we really need is that map overload with one of the systems and searchable.