Comments on: Roguemundi: The Roguelike World Map

By: Slash

Slash — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:20:34 +0000

Glen Wichman is capmango, he is already on the map.

When the roguemap was initially made, I didn’t think I needed that much accuracy, as the roguedevs were intented to be put manually (come to think about it, it was not meant to put people on it, that probably came later). I feel the need of remaking.

As long as everybody is registered with the right coordinates, it can be fixed :)

Thanks

By: Nick Pod

Nick Pod — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:32:21 +0000

Yeah … the east coast of the US might still need a bit of work. Boston (which is a port city) is showing up about 400-500 miles inland? At Boston’s latitude North America is about 2700 miles across (roughly) and is 33 characters on the map. However, measuring from approximately the Georgia/SC border west to the San Diego area is roughly 2100 miles and 20 characters on the map. I’m willing to bet that the problems stem from the projection used for the map, but is there any way to improve the placement of points, allowing for the imperfections of the projection?

By: Erathoniel

Erathoniel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:20:21 +0000

Where’s Glen Wichman? Is it illegal to add others if you know where they live? (He lives in Tuscon or Scotsdale, AZ, if I’m not mistaken.

By: scaught

scaught — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:09:05 +0000

FWIW, http://www.geocoder.ca will apparently give you long/lat for US & Canada.

By: Slash

Slash — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:32:29 +0000

You can also tweak your position a bit :)

By: Slash

Slash — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:32:01 +0000

For now yes, however both of them get listed on the roguepeople listings.

By: George

George — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:44:10 +0000

Is the first person on a city (for example, Christopher on Seattle) the only person to show up on the map if another person uses the same coordinates?