If you can wait a little bit I can whip together something more concrete for planning purposes. Unfortunately, I'm swamped with work right now and it will be a few days before I can demonstrate a prototype. I believe I can offer a structure to handle all the data elements using Google Maps' new GMapType class. Revanche ( talk| contribs) 02:16, 29 July 2009 (UTC) Hey all. On a related note, might I suggest moving this discussion to BattleTechWiki talk: Project Planets? - Scaletail 01:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC) Suggestion sensible move made. That said, there were probably errors that I did not catch. I corrected a few, but not much work was needed. Also how accurate were the original 2003 ISCS files? - Dracoix 23:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC) They were mostly accurate. And yes, I'm just a guy that came out of no where, but I think I can help you guys out on this issue. However, any image function in PHP requires GD2, server CPU usage, and bandwidth to send the generated image to the user. I'll get cracking on a star map tool with labeled image output (as well as CSV output) offline.
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Frabby 10:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC) I actually specialize in image manipulation and algorithms (watermarks, pixel functions, etc) what shall be thy bidding? >:) Except going through every source book and re-entering systems and planets into a new 99.9% error free database would be a pain. I can help collecting the data but I am totally helpless when it comes to coding.
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And finally some code wizard would be required to create clickable maps from that database, with the option to alter the maps as new info becomes available. Once this is done, we need to agree on a proper format to present systems because the current system mixes up system names and planet names. Bits and pieces of this discussion are unfortunately spread across many talk pages on BTW, but essentially we need to redo the entire underlying database (that includes re-checking all XY coords where we have them, and provide approximations for where not - and then there's my pet project about unmapped worlds where we don't have as much as a clue to where they are). Plus, the bot used failed to transcribe the XY coordinates correctly. Revanche ( talk| contribs) 11:31, 27 July 2009 (UTC) See User_talk:Nicjansma#Other_extension_suggestions :) The datafile on which this wiki's system data is based was an older version of the ISCS atlas and contains numerous factual errors, omissions and typos.
Please check back, because I think you may be on to something. I'm going to ask Nicjansma (the site's founder) and Frabby (probably our most dedicated planetologist), as well as two of our code-crunching admins to weigh in over here. Dracoix 04:48, 27 July 2009 (UTC)ĭracoix, I know there is indeed issues with the planetary DB and interest in both correcting and improving how they are handled, but I am so not the guy ready to handle this.
Some current X, Y coords are still problematic by the way. I can contribute to the programming/generation process and then upload outputs for every system not listed.Īlso, the 60-light year zoom can be confusing as people (including me :p) may not know where in relative to the entire Inner Sphere the region may be. Though I'm sure I can find them through ISCS and Source Books, and probably has already been suggested and implemented in someway, should a PHP image output complete with an image-map linked to respective planet wiki pages be created for each blank wiki page? At least not server-generated images but generated images and uploaded for those wiki-lost systems. I've noticed that hundreds of planets are not listed with coordinates or surrounding systems much from the periphery and clan space. What do you think? - Revanche (admin) 18:35, 22 November 2006 (CST)