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bobthecoward

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Maps with deployment tables
« on: May 05, 2013, 01:35:49 PM »

Awhile back I asked about ways to add deployment tables to the maps. I am back with a work in progress.

3025. Using the house books and the periphery book. Could use some rework
https://www.dropbox.com/s/llgwbkq5hq6mdjp/3025_all.pdf

3050. Using 20 year update. FC, DC, CS are done. working of FWL
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fgxpa58ew71jh61/3050.pdf

They work best downloaded rather than in a browser. Also, you may need to zoom in to 75% for all the icons to load.

I was able to do it with PDF XChange. The best part is the icons are movable on the PDF.
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2013, 07:48:31 AM »
Please let me know what you think. This is my first time I have shared it with people outside my gaming group.
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2013, 08:21:55 AM »
Did you type this in or do you have a database?
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2013, 08:28:32 AM »
Quote from: Blacknova on May 06, 2013, 08:21:55 AM
Did you type this in or do you have a database?

Typed. I make the text section, then I move it over the planet. It is a blunt force solution, but I liked it the most, so far.
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2013, 06:45:58 PM »
Oh dear god that is pain and anger right there.

If someone puts a database together of units/world stationed by era and/or year and/or wave and/or month (for campaigns), I can map the lot in a day and generate campaign maps from that super-fast.

I just dont have the time myself right now to do all the data mining.
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2013, 09:24:28 PM »
Quote from: Blacknova on May 06, 2013, 06:45:58 PM
Oh dear god that is pain and anger right there.

If someone puts a database together of units/world stationed by era and/or year and/or wave and/or month (for campaigns), I can map the lot in a day and generate campaign maps from that super-fast.

I just dont have the time myself right now to do all the data mining.

I can do that. If you like this, and it can serve as a proof of concept, I would love to do that. Let me know formats, etc.

I think these map convey some interesting things. Do you like them?
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2013, 03:00:50 AM »
Here's the .dbf files for the 3025 deployments.   I started out with six different files that I merged into a tabbed excel version for record keepeing, Although truth be told, I think merging them all into one file might be the way to go for displaying them in Arc.  That way, if you use label definition like I do, you only have one layer to worry about, not six.  I may have to go back and do that for myself.

It's a zip file, these are the .dbf files, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or Office prior to 2010 can open them.  You may need to edit the headers.

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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2013, 07:22:11 AM »
I think Bad_Syntax has a database of every known unit station when/where similar to the faction ownership database we have for the systems. Or I think he was mining the sourcebooks for that very data, I just don't know how far along he was with it.
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2013, 09:17:00 AM »
Quote from: Volt on May 29, 2013, 07:22:11 AM
I think Bad_Syntax has a database of every known unit station when/where similar to the faction ownership database we have for the systems. Or I think he was mining the sourcebooks for that very data, I just don't know how far along he was with it.

I remember seeing something like that, but I also remember the format was not very friendly for what I intended to do with it.

Not sure if I was using what Bad Syntax had put out or not.

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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2013, 11:07:51 AM »
The beauty with his database is that it's very flexible. The raw format of the coordinates and faction ownership wasn't very friendly either, but he kindly put it in e format i asked for fairly quickly. I remember it taking less than an hour for him to do so.
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2013, 08:36:40 PM »
I sent a 3025 database to BlackNova. We will see how it looks, and if it is worth going on to 3050, 3054, 3067, 3079.
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Re: Maps with deployment tables
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2013, 08:47:40 PM »
If you wouldn't mind, I'd like a copy to.

Thanks!

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