Mapping Norrath's resources

Mapping Norrath's resources

I have decided to start mapping Norrath's (the world of EQ2) resources. This will include a lot of non-programming work for me but I plan on including as much programming as possible.

The result I strive for is a website with as much of Norrath's resource nodes as possible mapped in large databases. From the website one should be able to look at dynamically generated pictures showing ingame maps and the nodes' locations. I also plan to include a client that anyone can run on their computer that downloads the latest updates and shows them in a window on the computer. From that client one should also be able to add to the databases.

There are some major parts that I have never done before which makes this project very interesting to me:

• Dynamically generated images.
• Clients with update features.
• Clients that can send updates to the server.
• Handling large databases. There will probably be a lot of optimisations required to make everything run smoothly, pre-processing and caching will probably be needed.

Here's a small picture from a testviewer that I made so I can see that the parsing of my logs are done correctly. The two markers are two locations that I logged with the /log on feature in EQ2.