DotLan might not as printer-friendly but is much more dynamic and can be viewed via the in-game browser.

Actually it is very good. Thanks!

I have recently come back to Eve and so I am trying to get up to date info on stuff. One thing I found really useful was the 2d maps PDF file that Ombey maintained. I went to the site at www.ombeve.co.uk and saw that the maps had not been updated since 2010!! Now these maps where so useful because

1. I could print them out and they made sense and

2. because I could look at them at work without having a program installed.

Is there anything like that out there now?

I asked Ombey about updates to his maps in late 2009, he told me he used dotlan rather than his own maps Was a bit of a change getting used to dotlan but worth it.

I'm currently working on an interactive map of New Eden using a pretty hefty mapping program called ArcGIS.

Now that's some squirrel hunting with a Howitzer.

Will be very interested to see the final results.

The 2D version will look cool, but won't be much more useful than Dotlan. What I'm aiming for is a full 3D interactive map using ArcScene, but trying to manually assign x,y,z coords for the systems is not something I'd want to have to do. I assume CCP has them sitting around somewhere, and if they're willing to share them, I could do some pretty cool things with them. (Cool if you are, like me, a cartographer by profession)

trying to manually assign x,y,z coords for the systems is not something I'd want to have to do. I assume CCP has them sitting around somewhere, and if they're willing to share them

The data dump has all that, I don't have a link handy, though.

I've never used the data dump (don't even know how to, sadly...). If you happen to find a link, send it my way!

GǪand if you don't know enough SQL, here is a list of all lowsec systems, their regions and co-ordinates, and here is a list of all jumps away from lowsec systems (hopefully filtered so that lowsec-to-lowsec jumps are only listed once).

*waits with baited breath to see what interesting things a cartographer does with eve map data*

GǪand if you don't know enough SQL, here is a list of all lowsec systems, their regions and co-ordinates, and here is a list of all jumps away from lowsec systems (hopefully filtered so that lowsec-to-lowsec jumps are only listed once).

Thanks Tippia, that is indeed exactly what I'd need. (I can script a bit, and I use SQL in my mapping programs, but I am not familiar enough with SQL programs to get at the information I'd need). If you can get me the same list for high & null I'd throw some isk your way.

Was that directed at me? I admit I'm much better with MongoDB than SQL, so thank you.

*waits with baited breath to see what interesting things a cartographer does with eve map data*

Very interesting development in this thread.
I too would like to see what you come up with.