I am finally going to put into effect something I've been meaning to do for some time, yet not got around to yet- an overhaul of the maps.
To be honest, some regions are better than others, but some are just rrrrrubbish. Catch for instance. You can't see clearly any routes through the region, whether zoomed out or in.
So, the plan is to make it more readable and thus more usable, while keeping it simple.
Some improvements:
1. show routes that go out of region and back in again
2. space out the systems much more
3. identify pipes where applicable
4. probably stick with straight lines, dispense with curves (not sure about this one, will need to see how it looks)
5. possible overhaul of the station service markers to make them stand out more
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6. allow copying of system names (if technically possible)
7. change colour of OOR jump markers
8. use colour on 0.0 maps to show constellation groupings and add const. names
9. emphasis 0.0 systems that connect to empire
10. highlight market hub systems even further
11. highlight main pipe routes
12. grid reference
13. indicate if out region jump changes hisec <> lowsec
14. add link back to universe map
Just some to be going on with. Any suggestions are always welcome, but I can't promise I'll be able to do them.
