DOTLAN EveMaps

It’s finally done. The DOTLAN EveMaps Dominion Edition is ready to go. I hope you all have fun. If you like my work feel free to donate stuff to me: ISK, Minmatar Stuff (hint: I can finally fly Minmatar Black Ops and Caps o/) or just leave a comment here.

Let’s round up the new features and changes that happened in the last 4 month.

New Features and Changes

• IGB Integration
  • Support of the new javascript Ingame methods (for showInfo links, etc)
  • New Theme which is optimized for smaller browser windows
  • Added a ‘Radar’ page which displays the current region with the system highlighted where the user is currently in. (only for trusted pages)
• Zoomable/Moveable Region Map (svg only)
• Zoomable/Moveable Universe Map (svg only)
  • Integration in the Jump/-Range/Route Planer
  • Integration into Region/Alliance View
• Outposts
  • Added outposts details including ownership and name history
  • Added live outposts changes
  • Track outpost ownership/name changes
  • Reduced API calls from every day 24h to every hour!
• Faction Warfare
  • Added live changes (contested/uncontested/lost/recovered)
  • Added occupied overview (which alliance has occupied what and since when?
• Systems
  • List sovereignty structures and their states
  • Added Nearest Locations: List closest low/high/nullsec system or closest station with $service
  • Links to outpost details
  • List Agents in Space
• Alliances
  • Added long term statistics for members, corps, systems and outposts
  • Links to outpost details
  • Link to universe map with the systems highlighted the alliance is holding
  • New Alliance Ranking/Listing. You can select between sov holding, all and dead alliances
  • Alliance listing is limited to 100 alliances per page (including pages switcher)
• Sovereignty
  • UPDATE: Added sovereignty structures list which are not in a normal state (You can watch things onlining)
  • Added a live sovereignty ticker with all recent losts/gains
• Misc
  • Moved the unified search in the header section (available on every page)
  • Merged Alliance + Corporation + NPC into one section
  • sorted table column gets highlighted
  • Active page section gets highlighted (in the main navigation bar)
  • Agents in space will be linked to their right location/system
  • Many tweaks, fixes, updates to make DOTLAN EveMaps a better world to live in for us all. 🙂

Background system

• Switch from cron-based scripts to daemons
• Rewrite of all update scripts and daemons who’re keeping the database up2date
• Rewrite of API backend handlers
• Added cache clearing on cache groups

Database

• Complete change of all tables that are handling historical data
• All startDate/endDate fields (for historical data) switched from ‘date’ field type to ‘datetime’ to be compatible with dominion sovereignty changes
• With dominion all sovereignty Levels will be changed to level 0/1 expect 0-4, old sovereignty Levels will be preserved
• Added outpost history table
• Added summary table for kills/jumps in the last 1/3/24 hours (to reduce query run times)
• Added more historical sovereignty data (thanks to exi from #eve-dev) starting now with June 2007

And what’s coming after all that? Sure the work is still not finished with all the new shiny stuff which is coming out with dominion. I’ll focus more on the Sovereignty Status API and try to merge more data together.

Possible new stuff could be:

• Conflict View: Alliances which are fighting against each other (based on contested systems SBU from alliance X is attacking space hold by alliance Y, and so on.
• Better startpage with more likely customizable features and widgets
• Notification services (jabber/email)? (In the far far future)