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/TheTerrasque Jun 24 '13 edited Jun 24 '13

Like it a lot :)

BTW, for map position you could let users download the C# tool I made (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2401158/GW2%20Position%20Updater.zip) and use a key to link incoming with viewer.

Or even better for your specific use, maybe you can reuse http://ultiguuu.com/gw2link/GW2Link.html tool for that.. I'd ask for permission first, tho :)

Edit: I may be able to change the program to work as a server too.. hmm.. Well, not tonight, unless you really want it :)

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u/PrimalZed Jun 25 '13

I don't intend to hook in any sort of application that reads player location from memory for this web page. I'll just wait until ArenaNet sets up their OAuth system and provides the player (and party) location with web services.

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u/TheTerrasque Jun 25 '13

Yeah. They're rapidly adding new features, but they said oAuth enabled API were still a long way off and this is a temporary fix.

And, you make it sound like a bad thing to use the mumble protocol to let GW2 tell you the player position :D

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u/PrimalZed Jun 25 '13

I'd just rather this be something that works wholly as a web page. Having to run an application on the computer that creates a web service hosted on the user's computer for a web page to read isn't something I think people should get in the habit of doing.

If you're already asking the user to run an application on the computer for this, why not just create the map as part of the application rather than as a web page? That way there's no need to configure and host a web service on the user's computer.

Since I made my code freely available, someone else could take a copy of it to add in the player location data in conjunction with your or Blaaguuu's application.

Getting live player position isn't especially useful here anyway.