Guild City - Overall Map

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Is it possible to have links in the overall, or zoomable maps that link up to the original threads so that it's easier to see the city sections in more detail? I was looking around these bigger maps, and found myself wanting to click on different sections to see them more clearly instead of then searching for the original section thread to see it at it's full size.

Yes - its just that I havent gotten around to putting any in yet. There is some talk of breaking up the zoom into 4 quadrants so that the max zoom amount is more than you can get currently. It might be the case that people post their final map sectors to the finished maps forum and ill link to that.

As for utilizing the leaders time, I don't know what they would think about this, but it could be an excellent opportunity for others to learn new techniques and skills (such as making a zoomable map, or just taking the time to merge the maps) This would take some of the responsibility off the few who currently are maintaining that.

Most of the stuff on the guild is something that anyone can upload. The zoomable maps are a bit of an exception. They are not part of vbulletin - the PHP/Javascript engine which drives the forum. So to upload them you have to be an admin to get the files on to the server and mess about with them directly. You can easily have a leaflet.js map on your own webserver tho if you wanted to try and make one. Also whilst it is possible to take everyones WIPs and make the masks into layers and scale them all individually and merge down to the final map it would be well tedious. I am using my own program to align the parts to the overall map and then after that is done my own program to break it back up into the leaflet tiles. I am also using my own script and code to generate all the links to patch up the different zoomable maps and links to images / threads which is not too hard to do. So many things yes, zoomable maps unlikely ! Even though there is quite a bit of overhead to making them, I volunteer to make the overall maps because its still an awful lot less issue for me to do it than anyone else. Also, I do really like to see the main map getting filled in !

As for challenges, I think an as and when thing is better. Sometimes we have ideas that need to be done at certain times and other times there is a lull in the schedule. I would like to see some challenges fill it out a bit more. One of my pet points is that I would like to see a challenge where either we take one persons sector and all map something in it, or, you have to map something in a sector that was not your own. The idea of the community mapping is that you can work on a bit of the map without having to necessarily conform to the demands from the larger sector mapper. You have to give up a bit of ownership when doing community mapping. People should feel free to add to bits of a community project. Most people will move their own sector forwards with extra maps which is fine. We have never got to the point where there is a more general pile in other than the initial divying up of the map. I am hopeful that in a city people might like to pick a building and map it. Theres no shortage of them to go around !