KerbalGIS version 1.0-alpha2 (Just usable edition)

[Gnonthgol]

If you have seen KerbalMaps.com then you have a pretty good idea of what I am trying to do. This plugin will setup your own tile server inside your game. This allows you to get better resolution, newer maps and better plugin integration.

Download v1.0-alpha2

The plugin is not done quite yet and requires lots of work to be fully working. I am releasing it because it is in a state where it will be useful and I am requesting help.

What needs to be done:

• Data from the PQS system needs to be cached to improve performance
  
• More layers to show more interesting things
  
• Testing with mods that modify the world
  
• Front end needs some tweeks so that it does not look like it is made by someone who don't know JavaScript (me)
  
• Need to show more information about the flights around the body
  
• Other projections including polar projections
  
• Layers for resources added by plugins like Kethane
  

Changelog:

1.0-alpha2:

• Add configuration
  
• Allow for directories in the http file requests and move the files to the www directory
  
• Add simple body selector
  

1.0-alpha1:

• Initial commit
  

If you want to help out read the source code is available at https://github.com/Gnonthgol/KerbalGIS. BSD license as always.

Edited February 3, 2014 by Gnonthgol
New version

[Whirligig Girl]

Should be moved to Add-on Development.

[Moach]

Should be moved to Add-on Development.

...And that's where we are now - done!

This project does have my attention anyhow -- if this does what I think it might, then it's gonna be quite a treat once it's working! keep it up!

cheers!

[Gnonthgol]

If this does what I think it might, then it's gonna be quite a treat once it's working! keep it up!

Well, it is working and is quite a treat. However it needs a lot of polish and testing before I dare call it version 1.0. I am already using it to find biomes.

[hakan]

Now if this could be integrated with TeleMachus.... I need additional computers on my KSP station

[hakan]

One tiny thing: The server seems to explicitly bind to localhost.

If I run the browser on the same machine as KSP and access http://localhost:8080/, the map is displayed. But when I access it from my tablet, with http://<ip-of-my-laptop>:8080/, I get a page with the text "Bad Request (Invalid host)".

[Gnonthgol]

I did not think of this, and I do not have two computers with graphical interfaces to test this. Could you test if removing all the "http://localhost:8080" strings from the index.html file included helps?

[hakan]

Sorry, manipulating the "http://localhost:8080" part did not help. I fear the culprit is

                public void Update ()
                {
                        if (listener == null) {
                                listener = new HttpListener ();
                                listener.Prefixes.Add ("http://localhost:8080/");
                                listener.Start ();
                                listener.BeginGetContext (new AsyncCallback (httpCallback), listener);
                        }

in your KerbalGIS.cs class. Telemachus has the same problem to open up local web servers, but he seems to have created his own HttpListener classes. I can access the Telemachus pages perfectly fine from my tablet.

Maybe you could find something to let yourself be inspired from at his github project.

[Gnonthgol]

Sorry, manipulating the "http://localhost:8080" part did not help.

Hmm, I suspect the HttpListener class works different on different systems. On my Linux it listens on all interfaces, that may be a Mono bug though.

Telemachus has the same problem to open up local web servers, but he seems to have created his own HttpListener classes. I can access the Telemachus pages perfectly fine from my tablet.

Maybe you could find something to let yourself be inspired from at his github project.

I did look at that code before, but writing your own http server when there is one included in the runtime is just silly and a waste of time in my opinion. What Telemacus does is it lets the connection be configured by an external configuration file. There is a configuration system for plugins in KSP already. There are several other places I have just put arbitrary numbers that should be configurable.

[hakan]

Hmm, I suspect the HttpListener class works different on different systems. On my Linux it listens on all interfaces, that may be a Mono bug though.

Aaaaaaahhhhh... Windows... Let me check whether some stupid windows firewall blocks the access from other hosts on the same network. I would never notice a requester from Windows since I run my KSP always in full-screen mode.

*edit*: I just tried... No popups from Windows firewalls, even while trying to access the web server from my tablet. So much for a theory

Edited February 1, 2014 by hakan
tested personal firewall theory

[Gnonthgol]

Can you try the new version. I added a configuration option that allows you to change the listening parameters.

[hakan]

Thank you, after discovering the config.xml in the plugin directory everthing works like a charm. Access from the netbook and the mobile (Galaxy S4) works fine and is actually kind of usable...

Now all I need to do is find a way to run KSP or KerbalGIS headlessly on my server so just browsing the map does not kill my active game framerate

[Gnonthgol]

Now all I need to do is find a way to run KSP or KerbalGIS headlessly on my server so just browsing the map does not kill my active game framerate

That is something i also want to try out. If you stick varnish or squid in front of it then it might be usable. You can still set the framerate in the config file but the map quality will suffer, it gives you lower resolution tiles if it takes too long.

I am working on trying to improve the framerate by caching the PQS data or deliver multiple in game frames for each tile.

[likke_A_boss]

*bump* Hows this coming in along? This looks like its gonna be pretty sweet soon.

[Gnonthgol]

I have been a bit under the weather lately and it takes time to come up with good ways to work around the horribly slow PQS system. It seams like I have to implement some sort of persistent cache to get it to run relatively smooth.