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  1. 05-03-2001, 05:45 AM #1
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    Exclamation Hey Fellas...and Gals!

    Not wanting to blow my own trumpet.

    But I've done a bit of effort with the trek sector maps I've been doing.

    What I really want is some feedback or critism! Anything reply would have meaning and thus letting me make modifications.

    If I don't hear from anyone I just assume my maps are perfect and everyone is happy.

    But seriously, check it and tell me yea or nae? Whats good and whats not!

    Help a poor old mapmaker down on his luck

    Link is here:

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fedsize/files/Update1.JPG


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    Its big and widely spersed so scroll around a bit.

    The square sectors are 20x20 ly.

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    Well Mr. MapMaker, I have no clue about the accuracy of your map canon-wise.

    How about showing some political boundaries on the map, even if only in a rough, sketchy form? That way one would get a bit more of a feeling about dimensions and what goes where, etc.

    Still, overall a good job I guess. How long did it take you to get this far with your map?

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    Very nice Sig, but...uh, where are Andoria, Tellar and Vulcan? I might have missed them.
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    Cool

    Hats off to you Sir Sig! The Map looks great! Yes, a few boundaries might help as long they are subtle. Will the empty space by populated by more stars? Wonderful job!
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    Okay hate to point it out but if you saw the original thread I had a map with very rough political lines.

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fedsiz...upwiththat.JPG

    Lancer: Assuming my interpretation of the sector arrangement is correct (I think it is, most stars line up with their sectors) then just about every sector on the map is canon.
    * A few I had to tweak to put in a 'more comfortable' position with hindsight of political boundaries and speeds of veesels.
    * Eg. A runbout gets to sector 401 from DS9 now thats a few hundred light years. So to make more sence (why send a runabout to survey so far away?) I changed the 401 to 501 which puts it just 4-5 sectors (80ly) from Ds9.
    * Now I admit I had to do this with about 5-6 sectors out of the 20odd canon mentioned ones. But I think there new positions are more 'politcally correct'.
    * I'll send a 'corrections list' if anyone wants to see?
    * Time? Well since I hit apon the idea of this sector layout that works then 3-4 weeks, doing a little bit every now and then. Although getting this large map in to the computer was about a weeks worth.

    StyroFoam Man:Size would roughly be about 1800ly radius from Sol.

    Phantom: They're there. Look right in the center around Sol. Accuracy is a bit hard on this scale so a star's position is in a tolerance of about +/- 10 ly but definately in the right sector.

    Dave: Yes i've been busy . This was only my first update. More stars to come. Accurate locations for distant stars is hard to come by. I need a script to convert RA & Dec to cordinates. (its a really big/complex formula)

    Qerlin: Carddie space how so? You mean from previous maps? (More though and insight makes a better map ) As to their current size, its coming from the sectors so...
    * Its already a .JPG, and only about 300k. Browsers or E-groups is just slow to load it.

    Yes! Feedback at last

    Stay tuned!

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    Oh and the 'real stars' im plugging in eg Deneb, Antares and Rigel. Their sectors are just what of calculated them as.

    Anyone notice Sheliak?

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    Looks pretty good, but I notice your moving the Cardie space around a bit.

    Suggestion, get this thing into .jpeg format soon -- the file is mother huge.
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    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by StyroFoam Man:
    Just wondering: Will you add color at some point? I know its a WIP (Work In Progress), but was just wondering...
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    Why you cheeky bugger

    'Course I will.

    Did you look at the older link?

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    Okay here's some pretty and Rough political boundaries over the last file 'update'

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fedsiz.../political.JPG

    Then comment away!

    Over the weekend I'll plug in some more stars.

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    Now, if only those maps were about 1 20th the size, so I could print them out on a normal-sized printer...
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  15. 05-04-2001, 08:09 AM #15
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    If only I had a computer faster than a 233 MMX here at work. My nasty old 1 MB video card took forever to process the darn thing. Sigh.

    Thanks for the political boundaries, they help a lot.

    Looks good.

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