Never get lost anymore

June 12th, 2009

Some of you might already have seen the new menu point in the top navigation panel. If not – now is the best time to check out the new features. After about 2 weeks of many headaches about routing and path finding algorithms (A*) and browser issues (f**k IE),  I’m happy to be able to announce the new section on my evemaps page: Navigation.

This includes a jump planner for capital ships journeys including fuel consumption, a jump range tool to see what systems are in range (incl jump bridges) and last but not least a routing planner for gate to gate navigation. The routing planner has the ability to including possible jump bridg jumps and a calculation for the liquid ozone consumption. To able to visualize the jump and gate routes I also included a new map that will reflect the real New Eden layout additionally the routes are integrated into the already known maps.

Feel free to test it, break it and please give me feedback if everything is working as intended or if something is broken. Many thanks to all who I talked to while getting headaches and those who already tested it.

Here are some screenshots. Enjoy

34 Responses to “Never get lost anymore”

  1. Abosger says:

    Great new additons.

    Easy and fun to use. appreciate it 🙂

  2. nStedt says:

    You rock! Another quality service from Dotlan ftw! 🙂

  3. DRACOselen says:

    Just one word: awesome!
    keep it up =)

  4. Met Chabot says:

    OMG This a great addition, I think I’m gonna use this from now on!

  5. Ombey says:

    Now that is a seriously handy addition! I prefer the clean look of your version as opposed to the original Jump Planner, and the fact it has clicky links to drill down into systems is great.

    One question though- on the Jump Range planner in particular, is it possible to add the ability to zoom in? The systems are all cluttered together, especially for a carrier jump with JDC5. Would be very handy to be able to do this.

    Keep up the great work!

    • Wollari says:

      I’ll see what I can do. Perhabs I get it working with with javascript inside the SVG files. I’ll try to avoid reloading svg/swf images from the server to zoom it to safe traffic and serverload.

      • Beansman says:

        You might as well make the “all universe zoomable map” while doing this!
        Me likes!

        kthxbye!

        ohh.. and good work o/

  6. TrailBlazer says:

    Man, this really gives me a hard-on. Keep the good work coming.

  7. Brandoe Chung says:

    Way to go! You’ve really outdone yourself this time. Keep up the amazing work!

  8. Jenan Hyswa says:

    looks real good but found a bug.

    on the jump range tool, select the start system, select your ship, select your JC level (5 in my case) hit go and get all the systems in range for JC4, same happens when JC3

    Output is always JC4, probably something quick to fit, and as no one yet has reported it I thought I should.

  9. Tandin says:

    Very nice little tool. I was pointing it out to the other TKT guys last night and we find it much more useful than the ISCS Jump planner/jump range tool. I like having it integrated with the maps.

  10. Nice addition to the website. You truly are making this a one stop shop for information. Keep up the good work.

  11. sjoerd says:

    Nice Work. And I found a bug:

    When jumping into a low sec system with a sec status of -0.45 the jump planner gives the message. The system after the first jump must be lowsec or 0.0, but it is -0.45 (i think the system thinks it is a 0.5 system)

    was using a nomad, all skills @ 5

    • Wollari says:

      I’ll take a look into it … i know the number of numbers behind the decimal are taking into calculation. 0.449 is lowsec but 0.450 is highsec

  12. Tao Min says:

    Very nice addition, thanks a lot.

    One thing that would help a lot imho would be, if you could get High Sec systems in the jump range tool as well. Then you could plan Jump Freighter trips much better. While you can´t to High Sec, you would still be able to plan your way to 0.0/Low Sec.

    Thanks anyway 🙂

    • andre says:

      This would be very useful. We sometimes need to find a hi-sec in jumprange from a specific low-sec. Maybe you could add a checkbox to allow this?

      Anyway, great tool, thanks 🙂

  13. harm says:

    Is it possible to add the option from the ingame map? (shortest/safest) cause right now it displays shortest always.

    • Wollari says:

      I’ve to rework the complete routing algorythm for the gate to gate routing to include path weight, etc. Perhabs I’ll do it one day and post it as update here. But it’s not that easy.

      Currently the gate2gate routing ist simply done with flooding all systems and see if I found the end system.

      But I’m pretty sure I’ll update it soon or later.

  14. Yvain Dragonheart says:

    Just awesome man. The more I use your website the more I like it. That’s a very nice addition… And so much better than the Jumplplanner I v been using until now ! Thanks ^^.

  15. dor amwar says:

    these tools just keep getting better and better. thanks mucho.

    a request: is it possible to have a new ‘map’ of just regions showing their links. similar to the ombey eve universe page. maybe clickable to go to that region.

  16. cyanogen says:

    It rounds fuel quantity up. Tribute systems H-W to MSHD should be 615 and 1145 for a Rorqual and Anshar with all 4s but shows as 616 and 1146. Please fix ASAP as this is better than ICSC jump planner.

    • Wollari says:

      Fixed it. I wasn’t really sure if CCP would round up (because used is used) or just round it like normal. And before someone has not enough fuel with him during a jump I started to round up first.

      Thanks for the clarification.

      • cyanogen says:

        Did you use round() or floor() because H-W to MSHD in a Rorqual is still showing as 616.

        • Wollari says:

          In the first version i used ceil(), then with your first comment i changed it to round() and now finally i use floor() and it shows 615 as fuel usage for the rorqual.

  17. Regarding the jump range tool –
    Here are my requests to make this tool really really really awesomely useful (as opposed to current really x 2):

    – Ability to filter results to show only systems in a particular region
    – Ability to filter results to show only systems with a station
    – Ability to filter results to show only systems with a particular sov holder

    Cheers!

  18. Pewpew pilot says:

    You should check out Eve-map NG, another one of the goons tools that was just released for public use. Goons had been using the previous version for a couple of years and Lhyda has been updating it regulary, before releasing it for public use the other week.

    Features are:
    – Jump Bridge route planning, including ozone usage estimation
    – Cyno Route Planning, including skill-related calculations.
    – Sovereignty updates, using the Eve API
    – Configurable “Weighted” route planning, including system avoidance list
    – In-game browser support (http://localhost:23455/routes)
    – Complete truesec, asteroid, and ice belt details

    http://www.eveonline.com/iNgameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1098096

    Was released under the GPL, so source code is available as well.

  19. PwePwe says:

    ist es möglich eine statistik zu haben die anzeigt, wieviele outpos durchschnittlich pro monat gebaut wurden?

    • Wollari says:

      Outposts build per month (since my archive is running)

      +---------------+-------+
      | Year-Month    | build |
      +---------------+-------+
      | 2008-October  |    12 | 
      | 2008-November |     4 | 
      | 2008-December |    11 | 
      | 2009-January  |     7 | 
      | 2009-February |    10 | 
      | 2009-March    |     9 | 
      | 2009-April    |    17 | 
      | 2009-May      |    11 | 
      | 2009-June     |    18 | 
      +---------------+-------+
  20. Enraku Reynolt says:

    I would like a station system only option on the jump planner
    and as I posted on the eve forums. I cant find the button that would let me make the jump route into a pdf or .gif

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