SVG Maps

[Acuba]

Hi there.

I just want to ask if there is an interest in SVG system maps. At the moment there are screenshots from the game's navmap, FL-Companion or none on the wiki pages.

I would argue that SVGs could replace them, if there is enough interest. The pros for that are numerous: simple XML and therefore able to be build and modified by almost every programming language. Once a script is made, it can rebuild the maps with new data within seconds.
SVGs are interactive and symbols could link to other wiki pages (like bases or connecting system when clicking on a jumphole) or show other behavior (tooltips etc.). They gain advantage from front-end manipulation (CSS, DOM access per JS, ...) and as a vector graphic they scale without jaggies.

I would not ask if I've already tried it. I used the universe.ini to create a SVG map of Sirius and wrote a generation script. It looks different than the map on dropbox (here) because it uses the float grid values from the ini and therefore looks like the ingame map (with the benefits of the dropbox map).

I've uploaded it temporarily to my google drive. To view it correctly download it (the render by google is incorrect) and open it in your browser of choice. Link to the map: SVG Map. Please respect the copyrights and stuff and don't give the link further away.
This is a first draft and every color, stroke and font can be customized with different CSSs. The stellar systems are represented by circles with a border-color according to the dropbox map and lore.
If you watch carefully, you see that there are systems in pink. I could not classify these system properly because of discrepancies in the sources I used (dropbox-map, laws of sirius thread [which needs some attention by the house leaders], knowledge from 4.86, the wiki and the system clarification post).

When I'm done I will release the SVG under CC so that it can be shared and used. Therefore I want to ask for clarification for the 'pink' systems. The systems I need help with:

• Roussillon, Baffin, Orkney. According to system clarification post these are Taus. True?
  
• Lewis, Rishiri, Okinawa, Saar. System clarification post says these are Omegas, Sigmas or Taus. Dropbox map indicates these are part of Bretonia, Kusari or Rheinland. Which classification should the map use?
  
• Alabama, Ellesmere, Puerto Rico, Chester, Londonderry, Chukoku, Tohoku, Luneburg, Puerto Rico. Sounds like house space, but the system clarification post doesn't mention them. Some of them are referenced in the law thread and are painted in house colors in the 4.87 map.
  
• Drake, Farore. Nowhere mentioned. No Tau, no Bretonia. What are they?
  
• Cassini. Independent in 4.86 and now part of Liberty according to the new map. True?
  

So thanks in advance if you answer these questions and if you are interested in SVG maps I will start working on them. So please post your opinions.

Cheers, Acuba.