DOTLAN EveMaps

I’m now preloading and reassigning colors to the sovereignty holding alliances per map. The assignment will affect all alliances that had at any point of my history database sovereignty in one or more systems of that map, ordered by the first date an alliance had sov.

The currently defined 18 colors will get mapped to all alliances that occurred in the history. If the 18 colors have been assigned, the colors will get reused. It might happen that particular maps alliances may have the same color. This is mostly in Regions where many alliances are living together and sovereignty is switching very often (like Querious).

On the other side this will make sure that an alliance should have the same color on that map, if your rollback in time.

Deep in the night we came up with the idea to add a significant feature to my map page. Wouldn’t it be great to see who’s fighting in that unknown system which just showed up as the most violent for the last 3 hours? Without any knowledge about political conflicts or skirmishes.

Last night i was speaking with Beansman and Karbowiak from the EVSCO Killboard. Those guys are running a fast growing killboard hosting service on the backbone of a shared database for all killmails. With several big alliances hosted on their shared killboard (like Triumvirate., Intrepid Crossing and many others) plus the feed synchronization with many others big alliances (NC, TCF etc), the killboard database gives you a good overview what’s going on in some parts of New Eden.

The result of that night is just gorgeous:

You can now see the recent ship/pod kills of a system in the last 48 hours directly on the statistical page of each system. The kills will get loaded live via Ajax, processed and displayed if anything got found. I think that’s s a good start and a great pleasure to work with those guys.

Recent Shipkills in BQ0-UU

If you want to make sure that your victorys are also displayed live on my page, check pricings for their hosting service or just link your killboard feed to the EVSCO database if you’re happy with your  own killboard and only wanna share killmails with the rest of the Eve Community.

Sorry for some short outages today, but i was implementing Flash Support for the Internet Explorer users who don’t have the Adobe SVG Plugin installed. Internet Explorer Users now will see the flash version of a map with nearly all features. Only the information overlay is missing (where you can select info like npc kills, etc).

All other Browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc, expect IE Version) should display the SVG version of the map.

I hope the small minority of IE users will be happy now 🙂

I just received a copy of older sovereignty database dumps. With those dumps i could extend my history (starting from April 2008) to scroll back in the system, corp, alliance and map history. Just some alliance tickers from closed alliances are missing.

Example: Operation Tortuga (Daisho, MC, Kia, Outbreak VS BoB in Period Basis)

Many thanks to Stins for providing me the his database dump.

Moon Update:

I also added moon information about several constellations, systems and single moons to my database, which i could find on the Internet and/or those which i got from friendly capsuleers. ExBob/KenZuko was so nice to publish their directors board which also provided juicy high-end moon location, which have been waited to get imported.

Thanks to all those who’re supporting me, providing ideas, donating moonscans or donating isk.

I’ve recently added a history function for my evemaps. You can now rollback in time through all changes in a region. Those including  sovereignty and occupancy changes as well as contested faction warfare systems and newly placed outposts.

To give you an idea how that looks i’ve collected several battlegrounds of the last 6 month.

Deklein

• 2008-08-26 VFK is fallen, Pure still in Deklein
• 2008-11-20 G00dfellas holding all stations
• 2009-01-01 NC offered Deklein to TCF

Delve

• 2009-02-04 BoB’s old last day with sovereignty in their home space
• 2009-02-05 That’s Delve without BoB holding the sovereignty
• 2009-02-07 BoB reformed under the alliance name Kenzuku. The start of Delve War II

Tribute

• 2008-09-20 Morsus Mihi is holding during BoB’s MAX campaign
• 2008-10-25 BoB took over NC’s Empire Pipe E-O and M-O has fallen, before BoB pulled out to attack the goons.

Vale of the Silent

• 2008-08-26 Triumvirate’s Assault on Hydra and Pure
• 2008-09-20 BoB was going for Pure Space
• 2008-10-16 The fight between TRI and KITE started
• 2008-11-10 TRI took over most stations in the Q3 Area
• 2009-01-01 TRI pulled out. The stations are now in the hands of Majesta Empire and The Initivite.

That’s only a small part of EVE’s history and i know that anywhere in EVE happend something which you will remember for the next month, years of forever. Sadly my sovereignty archive only starts with at the end of August 2008. If you’ve a backup/archive of old sovereignty xml files i would be happy to extend my database.

Nearly 2 Weeks after the start of the new Delve War II, i thought it would great to have a combined map that shows the 3 former BoB home regions in the south-west of New Eden.

Delve, Period Basis, Querious
Detorid, Insmother, Scalding Pass, Wicked Creek

If anybody would provide me some moon details about the  region (Delve/Period Basis) i would be happy. Everybody is speaking that the south-west is the richest region with the most R64 moons. Let us bring light into the darkness of the space.

The maps above are currently lacking of region border lines. I’ll add them in the next days.

Happy fighting.

Most Violent Regions (2009-02-13)

After i heard about Shrike’s 4th titan loss and all the fighting about the BoB Kenzuku Space, I thought that it would be time to ask my database who many ships got killed in the last 24h. But what i discovered is just insane.

No doubt. Delve is on place 1 with 3776 ship kills in the last 24h (over the whole region and not limited to any single alliance). The next 0.0 region (Curse) is far far away from being dangerous, with only 578 kills. Even in empire space is currently more action then in any other 0.0 region, expect Delve.

More Stats

Moon Mining Database Update:

I would like to thank those people who already donated me moonscans  in the last weeks.  You can now check out Pure Blind, Venal and parts of Vale of the Silent. I’ve still some more system and constellations laying around, that I’ll add in the next weeks.

If you would like to contribute moon scans to the database: feel free to send me an EveMail (ingame) or an E-Mail (wollari@dotlan.net).

Due to the great feedback i recently added several new features and pages.

Moon Mining Database:
I added a moon database to the evemaps webpage. Those database covers the moon mineral distribution. The region overview page shows you the moon mineral distribution along with  which system covers which kind of moons plus a complete summary for the region itself. On the system details page you can now find  a list of all moons including their raw materials.

This database is not part of CCP’s static database export and completely based on user reports. There’s no guarantee that minerals are correct or even complete.

The first inital input of moon minerals is taken from moon surveys i could find on eve-files.com. That contains some lowsec systems (from the Moon Map Project) and Moon Scans from the 0.0 regions Deklein, Fountain and Querious.

If you want to improve the moon mining database, please contact me ingame or send a mail to wollari @ dotlan.net. I’ll find a way to import your lists into my database.

Here are some nice screenshots from the moon mining lists:

Moons per regions

Moons per system

Recently Gained/Lossed Systems
Another idea came from a comment in my last blog. To monitor the big wars between GBC vs NC/Goon it would be cool to see the last lost and gained systems from an alliance in the last weeks. Here we go.

Recently lost systems (last 3 weeks) (Goonswarm)

The get a better overview (especially for the larger alliances) i moved the alliance information’s into 3 tabs. Outposts/Systems, Member Corporations and Recent Changes.

Grid on PDF Maps
In the eve-online forum, Teclador asked if i could add a grid to the PDF maps, for easier reading and coordination on voice comms. I hope the new layout is fine for you.

Grid on PDF Maps

New Player Outposts
Additional to the last 5 new outposts on the sidebar, I’ve added a page on request that shows the last 30 outposts with more detailed informations.

Thanks to all visitors outside who are using and promoting my maps. I’m happy to see that the number of users is growing month by month, day by day.

Access Stats 2008

If you’ve any suggestions what features or informations you’re missing (which are usally available for public from CCP) please let me know and/or leave a comment. Recently i’ve been playing around with javascript to add an autocompleter to the System/Alliance Search. I’ve also a way to highlight all systems of a constellation.

Before i forget it: I wish you a happy new year and good pvp kills. My the lag be with you.

UPDATE:
I just added the new Numbers for January ’09. Awesome.

For all pilots, who wants to track the daily come and go in alliances, i’ve added a new page where you can scroll through the list day by day of corps that joined an alliance or recently left one. I know many of you’re currently tracking the corporations to create rumors which corps are also involved in the newly discovered pos exploit.

Corporation Changes

I hope you enjoy it.

btw. I’ve never thought that so many corporation/alliance changes occur on a daily basis.