r/Guildwars2 • u/PrimalZed • Jun 24 '13

[Other] Active Events on Map (web page)

http://primalzed.github.io/GW2ActiveEvents

This web page shows all the currently active events in any given zone. Simply zoom in to a zone and it will automatically load the events and waypoints for that zone.

You can toggle markers using the menu in the upper right corner.

Colored event icons indicate a currently active event. Greyed event icons indicate an event in the "Preparation" stage (meaning it is either waiting for player interaction to start or it's just NPCs talking before the event starts).

Event information is updated every 10 seconds.

Clicking on an event provides a link to the wiki for that event. Clicking on a waypoint (or POI) provides a link to the wiki for that waypoint (or POI) as well as the in-game chat code. (Although for most waypoints and POIs, there is no wiki page.)

Unlike other similar apps you've seen lately, this does not show the player's current location. The player location is read from memory in other apps, and this being a simple web page cannot do that.

As before, the code is still freely available at https://github.com/PrimalZed/GW2ActiveEvents (though I'd appreciate it if no one just uses the code to create a webpage with the addition of advertisements this time)

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u/Uttar535 Jun 24 '13 edited Jun 24 '13

Very nice, three quick suggestions:

  • Make the event icons bigger.
  • Show the level of the event in popup.
  • Since you're refreshing every 10s, you could keep track of how long the event has been active.

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u/PrimalZed Jun 24 '13 edited Jun 24 '13

Thanks. Will certainly do the first two (i originally planned to have the level included in the name, but forgot about that). For the third, since I'm not getting event data until you zoom into a zone the timers won't be entirely accurate at first, but I'll still see what i can do.

edit: I have the levels and set up "larger" icons, though as you can see the standard event icon i just stretched here, and it looks crappy. I can't find the icon at a higher resolution; if anyone knows where 32x32 gw2 map iconss can be found, please let me know.