Ok ... I give up! Can ANYONE figure out how we can get an up to date MAP of our domain? Options

[Aki]

in fact I know it isnt ... because if you look at the worms map lol ... my underground rail tunnel seems to pop off the top of the map!

[MonkeyFiend]

it's showing as big a thing as I could fit on me screen, as i'm in work and only had access to the fine imaging software of MSpaint. I think the map extends out a bit further in a few directions, but the bit I cut was the main area in rectangularse form.

I assume the map auto-generates when someone goes pushing the boundaries in a direction, hence there's a few area outside of this main rectangle area, but it doesn't look like much has been done there and the sake of scale didn't include these

[Aki]

Also nice signature tag too

[K.]

loool my footie pitch is viewable from outerspace

[Leborn]

Im not sure how my brother did it, but he has made a 3d map where it shows almost everything. Ive seen it and it has worked, but for it to extended into further landscape, i aint sure it will be much use.

[Kadey]

http://s1107.photobucket.com/albums/h383/d...necraft%20Maps/

I'll keep the album up to date ish. But that's probably as detailed a map as is reasonable to produce and upload. Its possible to produce more detailed ones, but it requires considerable amounts of CPU and file size to do so.

[Aki]

Hullo can those with the knowhow post a new set of day/night maps up pwease fankoo

[Kadey]

I'm just updating my copy of the world files, then I'll produce a new day/night one.

[Aki]

Hmm well I really need night ones too

[MonkeyFiend]

giz a shout if am needed for anything, otherwise assume this is all being sorted.

@kadey: Assume you're doing this already but just in case: if you're ftp'ing to the server with something like filezilla, then downloading only files newer than the existing will significantly speed up compared to redownloading the whole shebang (since it seems the actual map is saved as files in a series of subdirectories.. about 20000 of them )

[Aki]

ok monkey have messaged you.

[MonkeyFiend]

ta will have a looky at this now

[Aki]

Ok first many many thanks to Kadey for keeping up his rezing of the mappage but time has come where I desperately need a high res day and night version of the map :| Does anyone know how we can ahieve this without incurring GB of data? I wonder if the server folks would let us host an accessible updated every once in a while map along side our MC data?

Hmm. world logistics are really becoming interesting.

[Kadey]

Worst case scenario - we could distribute the world files and people can use whatever utility they like to actually produce what map they want.

Otherwise, I'll keep investigating better resolution image generation. I'm sure they're out there, we can't be the only ones wanting it surely?

[Cabletwitch]

I'm up for the download option... give use the world files in a zip, and we can then each generate the map that suits us. Those who dont want to can stick with the maps you guys have been generating thus far. That 18gig file might be useful after all, if wee can generate it on our own machines...

[Chisel]

If anyone is interested I made an image of the whole map.

It's available here, but it's a whopping 7.52Mb:

Utopia

I also have the world up and running on my server, but it's lawless so the landscape is being rearranged a bit, and it can only handle 2-3 people at once before it gets laggy due ot my poor upload. If anyone wants a peak at it though I can hand out the IP and whitelist you, just give me a shout.