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Planetary Grid/ Co-ordinate System #826

Open PioneerDarkman opened 12 years ago

PioneerDarkman commented 12 years ago

Some form of planetary grid system that the ship's computer can superimpose over the planet or some other system. Such a grid would help a pilot locate an exact position he/she has visited before by making use of a co-ordinate system that can locate a spot to an accuracy of say 1 metre or less. This could be tied in to the mission system so that they can be provided as waypoints for some sort of rescue, retrieval missions that would take the user to many different places to complete a mission. They can direct a pilot to a rough location if necessary so more difficult search missions can be implemented.

PioneerDarkman commented 12 years ago

Also, instead of ( or to supplement ) a grid, a numbering system could be used such as degrees longitude and latitude on a system body. Height above and below sea level would also be useful.

Brianetta commented 12 years ago

Would it be useful outside of that system? If not, it can be calculated whenever it's needed, rather than stored.

impaktor commented 9 years ago

The grid would be on the planet in World View I take it, and not just on the star map / OrbitView?

This seems to overlap quite a bit with #121 where a lat / long display is asked for to know the position of different things on a planet, partially for scripters to place cities at some nice place, and partially for future missions to direct someone to some place.