Joat42 wrote:Seems that I'm not alone in the quest for an interactive map.
Valinor, look here for my project. I've got all the stars locations neatly recorded in an Excel document if you want them. I know how tedious it is to manually register all the locations.
Wow, I can't velieve I didn't see that. For my part i wrote a script that "scanned" the stars in SWM map automatically, might have incorporated OCR but was not lazy enought... the best programers are the lazy ones... Nice work, i will take a look and see if I can "import" your data.
JohnRoth wrote:I'd avoid trying to do "factions" whatever they are. They probably belong to some game or other, but they don't correspond to anything I know of in the Honorverse.
As I mentioned above, I've been thinking of doing a series of maps to correspond to what we know of the Honorverse after each story. I was thinking of two series: a "p" series that corresponds to the known map after each book and anthology in publication order, as well as a "t" series that takes it after each story in timeline order. I didn't get very far because of the data entry; besides which I don't have the Ad Astra games maps, which appear to be canon. What you're doing with the JSON file would help if my project ever gets off the back burner. BTW - I was planning on doing them in SVG, which would allow decent scaling without having to have javascript or suchlike.
Well, I call them factions but all they really are is the equivalent of the diferent colors on the map. They also serve to set the banner and a bit of "lore". Might as well have called them "Star nations" or something else.
I was thinking on doing the same "Historical" maps down the line, as it is I want to put all the data I can in the JSON file and not have it harcodded in the viewer.
