Map of land claims

[_Leprince]

That's exactly the kind of collaboration I was hoping for!

 

[Yennage]

Hi friends!

Been a while since I last posted an update on the map but I can assure you I've been hard at work anyway I've had to change a few things. First of all I can't use signs to set the markers anymore as it would require a custom java plugin to determine who placed the sign (so anyone could go around placing area markers); so now area markers are set using a file instead. This also gives me more options too as I'm no longer limited to the four lines of information a sign can hold. Anyway, I've now pretty much finished the code for point based markers so here's a screenshot showing the basis of how I hope a town marker will look when you click on it:

Now as you can see the towns thing is kinda limited because I don't know what sorta information you guys wanna see about stuff so if you could PLEASE post or PM me what kinda info you'd like to see on the town markers, subway markers as well as any other types of markers you can think of

Anyway over the next couple days I'm hoping to get area markers working and then its just a case of prettying it up. For example, I still need to add a way to uncheck a box so you only see the markers you want to. I also have a couple of other small features I wanna add like being able to type in so co-ords and see the point on the map they correspond to and maybe even have a way to click anywhere on the map and see the in-game co-ordinates of that area (this may be impossible).

Anyway thanks in advance!

 

[lofp]

awsome! its coming along btw I'm almost done on a cords for the warps what kind of data do you need?

and Im geussing that you would just need jangles to upload this stuff so that it works on the web server.

 

[Cpt.Carnage]

Dear lord man a BMP!?! Some compression compassion for people less bandwidth fortunate. ;-)

Looks good though! I wonder if we could incorporate zan waypoint files somehow, although from what I've gathered there's no correlation between his coordinates and the ones used on the Google maps file.

 

[_Leprince]

Places that would require a marker imho:

Category: Transportation
Subway stations
Public Warps

Category: Sightseeing
Town centers (to mark a town, we'd need to define what is a town)
Areas of interest ( multiple nice builds, nearest of spawn)



Places that SHOULDN'T have markers imho:
Easily griefable buildings in unprotected areas


The map definitely needs a functionality to display only the categories selected, or the individual type of markers.

The info needed would vary following the type of marker.
Subway stations:
Names and directions of adjacent stations
Number/name of lines that it is connected to.
Owners/Builders
On whose land it is.

Public warps:
Its name
areas of interest around it
Towns around it? Name of the nearest town?

Town centers:
Name of the town
approx number of Active people in it
Creators/ owners
Dates?

Areas of interest:
Name
What it is
Who made it
When
Why we should pay a visit?

It's just suggestions.
Area markers FTW

 

[Yennage]

_Leprince tyvm for all that I'll get those categories sorted like tonight or something. I'm also planning on using similar check boxes to the current sign markers to enable and disable them (so the map doesnt get too crowded lol).

As for the places that shouldn't have markers bit that's actually a good idea so maybe people could opt out of having a marker if they're worried about their town? (although I'd have to clear this with the mods first)

Also I may require a favour from someone. As you can tell by my use of a lovely bitmap I'm not exactly great at image editing. So if anyone is good at that sorta thing and would be willing to make the little marker pictures for subway stations etc. then drop a post

Anyway thanks again for that dude

 

[lofp]

btw dont setup the warps there all changing. for now for the markers just put up some default thing. and we can work on something that every one is happy with.

 

[Agrivane]

I have been wondering about the potential of this or my waypoints db idea to be a tool for griefers to find targets of value. Can it be put behind a login and restricted to admin/mod/member/listed builders?

 

[Yennage]

Umm theoretically it could Lorax but ideally we would like it to be public. I guess town owners are free to opt out of posting their co-ords but I don't think it'll make them much of a target forgot griefers.

 

[Yennage]

Thanks for that edc I've added it to the list!

 

[Yennage]

Lukester assuming I'm covered by your legal disclaimer about copying post content, yours has been added

 

[kking1]

do I also post for the future town in planning?

 

[useruser3]

as for what kind of information should be in a marker. can it not be on a case by case basis? the town markers simply display a textbox dont they?

 

[Yennage]

umm those two should be good for now ty kking

EDIT:

Bad news kking, I ran the map and your two towns are a bit too close together to allow for separate markers (they were almost inside eachother) so for now I've just got your K-Town marker but if you'd rather I did something else to accommodate I'd be happy to do so

 

[Yennage]

I'm afraid using the current system this isn't possible useruser

Basically the town markers work by reading parameters from an external file (e.g name etc) and then outputting them using HTML. This means that it's not exactly free-text using the current system. However, I guess case by case would be possible although then there's the issue of adding in new lines etc. Plus the difficulty of getting everyone to write something about their town/area that's appropriate

 

[CommanderFluffy]

one land marker for kking and kalo12s land please pick one town name.

 

[ekover97]

I'm confused as to what this actually is... Why do you need all the information on different cities?

 

[ekover97]

An addition to the world map?

 

[Yennage]

I'm confused as to what this actually is... Why do you need all the information on different cities?

Basically ekover I'm planning on adding markers for every town to the world map (as well as some markers for other stuff too like warp points etc. But to do this I need everyone with a town to give me some info on it like co-ordinates so I can setup the markers.

Screenshots and more info can be found here btw: http://www.minecraftaddicts.com/showthread.php/2267-Map-of-land-claims/page3

 

[CommanderFluffy]

too track the towns lol