Google earth to google PS

[juggalo10101]

Sorry in advance if this is in the wrong area,

I am modding the google earth system to show the planeshift map and have 3d buildings like the newest addition to google earth. I am going to code in a "GPS" system to show where you are and where other users with "GOOGLE" Plane Shift are. It will install and you access it with macro. Screenshots are going to be posted soon! If you have any suggestion for names or anything else or comments please post!

[Karyuu]

Like.. an automap sort of thing?

[juggalo10101]

kind of, but it is accesable outside of PS and has the google earth roads and editable points of interests. You can also share your points of interests with anyone you want, good for showing where you are and where to buy good items, ETC. There are more features under development!

EDIT- It is also avalable inside of PS, it will replace the blank bottom right hand or left hand corner of the screen, sorry for any confusion

[spyke01]

I think its a great idea, probally be really difficult to do, but i wish you luck

[juggalo10101]

yes it is hard, im just started on it and i wanted to let people know, i have a good year or so before im done, unless i find some more coders to help me out, so far i got google earth working with a mod that has a sketch of the map and im trying to get the share function working, i got one working on runescape for a test to see if its possible, but thats off topic, Soon though i might have a share function working for the minimap warking, so you can have a sample of the sharing function, you send it and the user accepts and TADA! its on your map.

 i need some names for it, will anyone help me out?

[hook]

I know I'm going to be an uptight purist again, but I don't like it!

Don't get me wrong - from the coding point of view I adore it and the coolness factor's WAAAAY up there, but I feel that it would just spoil exploring, hinder role-playing and provoke lazyness in many players. There is a good reason why PS won't have automapping and to this "Google Yliakum" is just a workaround to get automapping outside the offical client.

p.s. erm ...just from technical point of view: how do you plan to mod Google Earth to show different levels of the PlaneShift world and overlapping roads?

[Karyuu]

I'm going to have to side with hook on this one - it sounds like a really cool and definitely fun project, but it's just screaming "Spoilers!"

[Mordaan]

Wow, sounds like quite the ambitious project.  If you can pull it off, bravo!

I understand the different viewpoints on ingame maps.  But overall I would very much like to see an ingame mapping system.  As long as its accurate.  Its kind of like having the ability of zooming waaaay out.  Something we used to be able to do for awhile there and I liked that.  If you don't want to use it don't.  But the reality of it is most players will.  So why not?

The problem is by the time you are done, things might be different again.  I hope you can get to a point where changes/additions are more easily managed rather than having to start from scratch.  Best of luck with this!!!

[Cyl]

Well noone's forced to use it, and who am I to try and stop it. I will, however, always rely on my own orientation.

[juggalo10101]

ive got an idea, ill add a "fog of war" type feature used by RTS games to make it so you have to explore, like Age OF Empires, and Warcraft! ITs a few more days of coding, but its worth it! thanks for comments

 i know i can pull it off, just it will take longer than most projects i do. I have several mods i create for other designers to get the most out of thier game, but im not the quickest at it. Im thinking about charging like 2 dollars for this program with a premium package that has a sharing program that allows you to share you location with your buddies.

[Robinmagus]

I love you. Though I doubt PS will let you make a PS based project and charge for it.

[spyke01]

he said nothing about charging for it, and if he tried, google would probally be the first to sue, also, planeshift is licensed under the LGPL(i believe) and their own license, source code would have to be released, and it would have to still remain licesed under LGPL and the other license

[hook]

Actually it would infringe PS's rights not because of GPL, but because art and data are under PlaneShift license and therefore is legaly prohibited to use the art and data at all - no matter if commercially or free as in beer (or even as speech for that matter!).

PS's code has nothing to do with this project AFAIS. Google's does, and I agree they may not be too happy. Except if they actually support modding of their closed-source software.

I still say it's wrong because of the spoilers ...and if it the PS dev team (actually Atomic Blue) wouldn't tolerate this automap tool ... well, they would be eligible to legal actions because of license infringement concerning data (if not art as well) if such a "Google Yliakum" would be made outside the PS dev team (AB, actually).

p.s. IRL I am a law student.

[Zan]

This does sound like an amazing project but yeah ... not having any type of spoilers available to the broad public is one of the Devs requirements. The fog of war thing might do the trick, if you can pull that off. Then the second requirement is having all of PS free of charge. Of course this would be your own thing so nobody can force you to make it free but it would be nice and fit into the game's ideals if it were. I personally wouldn't pay, simply out of protest because one of the main things I love about this game is the utter lack of commercialism and wanting to make money whenever possible.

I do have a suggestion though ... if you can program well enough to make this google planeshift thing, why not apply for the Devs team and work on planeshift officially? We all know they can use all the help they can get.

[sesmi]

I don't think that's within PlaneShift rules.....