Map Database

[Cross]

I was wondering what sort of map database people would find useful?

There's a lot of excellent maps out there, but finding the right custom map for a battle can be difficult.

The idea would be to create a sortable list of not only all the stock maps, but for every SPWW2 and SPMBT custom map that's been posted online.

Back in 2010 I started a spreadsheet, but didn't get past map 141. I have 729 maps in my SPWW2 maps folder.



The spreadsheet includes these:

Map No.
Map name
Country name
Location
Width (hexes)
Height (hexes)
Size (Sq. KM)
Season (desert, summer, winter)
Map balance (meeting, advance, assault)
File weight (helps to weed out duplicates)
File date
Creator (if known)

Is anything missing?

You can then sort the spreadsheet by any column to find all the desert maps, for example, or sort by location etc.

Does anyone know of a website which could accommodate such a thing, where people can upload maps and fill in data fields?
Or is a spreadsheet with an associated zip file, of all the maps in the database, the best way to go?

I doubt I'll have time this year, but Scorpio_Rocks may take on the project.

Any suggestions or input would be welcome.


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[scorpio_rocks]

I am happy to be involved in any capacity I can folks!

I am guessing there must be in excess of 2000 maps available - eeek!!!

So it's quite a big job! Then of course we need somewhere to host it and/or for some poor schmuck... erm... dedicated "volunteer" to update the darn thing...

Is this something people want? ...would use? Is it possible? ...practicable?

Thoughts?

[Cross]

Originally Posted by scorpio_rocks

I am guessing there must be in excess of 2000 maps available - eeek!!!

My guess would be somewhere between 1200 to 1500, if we include WW2 and MBT maps.

But it's still a lot of work.

Some of the 729 maps I have in my SPWW2 maps folder are actually SPMBT maps that are perfectly usable in WW2.

Perhaps another column should be:
Originally Created For: SPWW2 / SPMBT

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[Roman]

If we divide the work among several people?
Take this opportunity to ask. Any tutorial to create maps?

[Rodwonder]

This sounds great! And yes it would be used much!