Wayfaring through New Eden with EveMap

by James Egan Aug 3rd 2008 at 6:45PM

EVE Online has an active community of 3rd party developers who release free tools for the benefit of other players. While tools like EVEmon, used to plan skill training, and EVE Fitting Tool, used to experiment with ship fittings, are widely used by players, there are a number of other great programs out there that have gotten less attention. One of those out-of-game tools is EveMap, created by Paul van Santen -- otherwise known as "AcriQuo."

The galaxy of New Eden has over 5000 solar systems, and plotting safe routes or simply some optimal wayfaring can be a bit involved. When in-game, you can pull up an interactive map to help navigate, but it takes up the entire client window while active. Some players prefer to view their maps off-screen, and there are some 2D options available to help in this regard, but until recently, going 2D was the only option players had. That's all changed with EveMap, which is a fully-functional 3D map of the EVE universe, with myriad display options and filters. The beauty of the program is that it literally displays all of EVE's systems without being confined to the client. The system requirements to run it are minimal: Java Runtime Environment version 1.5 or higher, and an OpenGL-capable graphics card. EveMap has been well-received on the official EVE Online forums. If having another way to navigate in EVE sounds good to you, why not fire up EveMap and see how useful it can be?

Tags: ccp, ccp-games, eft, eft-warrior, eve, eve-fitting-tool, eve-online, evemap, evemon, map, new-eden, program, programs, tool, tools

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bam! said on 7:59AM 8-04-2008

I use a similar mapping program, but it allows me to input my corps jump bridge locations to make routes even easier.

James Egan said on 10:41AM 8-04-2008

Which program is it? Just curious.

W. Graves said on 8:59AM 8-04-2008

I like the Ombey PDF, easily searchable and I can print out whatever region I'm in if I want to. not to mention choke points and gate camp locations are pretty easy to figure out on a 2d map

James Egan said on 10:52AM 8-04-2008

I've used the pdf maps as well. As I do everything on my laptop it made sense to have something that would always be with me. But I recently got the EVE Strategic Maps that Serenity Steele put together, and it's good. I don't use it everyday, but I do like it.