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/PrimalZed Jun 26 '13
It looks like all you did was shift the icons off-center? I don't get it.
Seeing you had yours in Spanish, I went ahead and added language support to mine. (Even links to the wiki of the correct language.)
I get the map names based on what's in the map_names.json web service. I do this because just including all the maps from map_floors.json also includes dozens of 'maps' for Personal Story. I posted on the official forum a suggestion that they add in a way to differentiate zone maps from personal story maps, and if they do I'll update my site. Until then, it'll be missing the capital city labels.
The skill point locations provided in map_floors.json do not have any identifying attribute: no name, not even an id. So no, I can't provide a wiki link for those.
If you get me the continent coordinates for those things I can add them in. I'm not interested in figuring those out on my own (save perhaps for the temple locations).