New Map Project

[Syntic]

So I'm curious how one even goes about setting up a Google Map API to work with the Map data provided by the Ender Client. I would like to be able to set up a private map that me and my friends would be able to use that has points that interest us. I don't mind contributing what map data I have to this public project, but my problem is there is so much the public map would never be able to tell you. If anyone that understands the Google Map Api would be willing to help me out in Private messages that would be amazing.

[MvGulik]

Whats the current status of this map project ?
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Roger. Dead/Finished

[grayrat]

Whats the current status of this map project ?
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Roger. Dead/Finished

Filling and slow development

[Qukatt]

Whats the current status of this map project ?
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Roger. Dead/Finished

It can only go as fast as people are willing to send their map bits in

[milonti]

Is there a bat file or something for automatic uploading yet?

PMing giant batches of tiles seems... inefficient.

[Chiprel]

Is there a bat file or something for automatic uploading yet?

PMing giant batches of tiles seems... inefficient.

zip/rar your map folder, upload somewhere and just pm him link?

[milonti]

Is there a bat file or something for automatic uploading yet?

PMing giant batches of tiles seems... inefficient.

zip/rar your map folder, upload somewhere and just pm him link?

You're missing the point of "automatic"

[MvGulik]

Filling and slow development

It can only go as fast as people are willing to send their map bits in

Roger. Thanks for info.

Like to suggest to use the first post as general status/info post.
And perhaps also as code requester. For additional feature or problem/automation solutions.

[MvGulik]

(Additional world data export)

Don't know much about exported Salem world map images (other than what I picked up from Haven). Or about Salem's world specs/features. But I find it a interesting subject ... So just adding some raw thoughts on the matter.

Elevation/Height:
Considering its possible to have cliffs in Salem. Storing the Elevation data as image alpha map can only be used as a general height map. Problem(1) is that every ground tile has four elevation values that are(can be) independent from the elevation's in the neighboring ground tiles. So you need to merged(averaged) them (loss of data). ... Problem(2): see Ground type section.)

Alternative:
- The elevation data could, if where talking PNG, be stored as additional PNG data chunk. (Can be stored as plain text or as binary data(if I recall correctly). This data chunk can also be compressed if needed.) The benefit of this way would be that you don't end up with additional separate elevation file(s). But using the elevated data again involves more work of course.

Ground type: (for a potential clean worldmap ground-type overlay)
- Figure that ground type is a single value per tile, and with a range less than 255 values. The alpha channel seems usable for this. But if your already storing elevation as a PNG data chunk. Doing the same for the ground type seems more logical. And on top of that. (problem(2)) Data chunks will not interfere with the displayed image itself, like alpha data will. (Local user display of saved map sessions.)

That still leaves the format of the stored data steams open. Thinking [tile1[TL, TR, BL, BR], tile2[TL, TR, BL, BR], ... ] seems fine to me.

[edits: lots ... done.]

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Mmm, potential additional problem I did not take in account. ... Are the elevation values given to the client on ground tiles absolute or relative?

[grayrat]

Small update - coordinates link, tools: rulers, home etc, SG grid