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Crazybob's Points Map
[MAF]Epoxi:
I was on the forum for CrazyBob's Cops 'n' Robbers and saw this awesome map.
High res version: http://www.crazybobs.net/mrx/misc/pointmaps/june25_2011/168h_Combined_3k.gif
And an animated flash version.
http://www.crazybobs.net/mrx/misc/fptv/FlashTrackViewer.html
They are made by tracking players' positions every second and making a plot (I think this one was done over several hours). Blue points are police, white are civilian, orange and yellow points are wanted.
Also, I was thinking if we could extract player coordinates in real time from the server maybe I could record them and make a map of our own in C++. Then we could see all the popular race routes, and general fun info. O0
[MAF]Karlis:
looks cool, but technical implementation seems quite hard considering the amount of data.
might be worth a shot though.
[MAF]Rac3r:
Now that's cool!
Would be good to track our journeys with something like this.
Is that coded exclusively for Crazy Bobs?
--- Quote from: [MAF]Karlis on October 29, 2012, 06:25:12 pm ---looks cool, but technical implementation seems quite hard considering the amount of data.
might be worth a shot though.
--- End quote ---
True, I'd like to see something done aswell.
I think the main reason we've never had anything like this is because it would just of been the race route, but we do a lot of stunt/tt/dm/buildmode though, it would be useful.
[MAF]Epoxi:
For the large amount of data we could make one file per day containing all the data points (just comma separated plain text with "time,X,Y,Z" or something, coordinates could be rounded to the nearest integer to save space).
This data could then be downloaded and the source deleted to save space on the server.
I could then make a C++ app that divides the map into cells and counts the number of data points in each cell. The count for each cell could be then developed into a histogram style map that has different colours depending on the count. i.e. red for 'hot spots' and green for cold like this map:
Also here is a high res version of the CnR points map. http://www.crazybobs.net/mrx/misc/pointmaps/june25_2011/168h_Combined_3k.gif
[MAF]Rac3r:
I can't think of a quick way to get the xyz, file saving isn't exactly ideal for this.
Definitely a start though, we got a few ideas down.
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