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Show HN: Freeciv-Earth play anywhere on earth
- roschdal 11y agoFreeciv-web now supports choosing any map in the world using OpenStreetMap, and playing Freeciv on that map. I implemented this feature this weekend. Feel free to post any feedback here.
- mhuffman 11y agoWell that is pretty damn impressive! Well done!
- roschdal 11y agoThanks! Do you have any ideas for other interesting things to do with OSM maps and Freeciv? We could for example use the GeoLocation APIs in Javascript also. By the way, the nice OSM map is provided by https://www.mapbox.com/ https://www.mapbox.com/
- maxerickson 11y agoThe satellite/aerial imagery you show on the first page is strictly a Mapbox product, it isn't something from OSM. So attributing OSM on that slippy is incorrect. Do you pull OSM data from somewhere to generate the map? I get the idea that the map is maybe being built from the shown imagery tiles, in which case OSM wouldn't be involved at all.
- roschdal 11y agoYou are correct, the map is provided by Mapbox.com. I have fixed this now.
- bubblesorting 11y agoLooks cool, but I get a Network error, "Unable to communicate with the civclientlauncher servlet. Error: error OK null". Do I have to install something first? Edit: I've never played Freeciv before
- roschdal 11y agoHi, perhaps you could try starting the game again? The error seems to indicate a temporary network error, but it should be working correctly now.
- bubblesorting 11y agoThis is awesome!!! Thank you!
- oaf357 11y agoI would love to see how a battle for my neighborhood would go. Please enable geolocation.
- SwellJoe 11y agoIf you're in the suburbs, it seems like the barbarian spawn rate might be too high. (And, by "barbarian", I mean "children".) But, I agree. I've often thought how cool it would be to be able to generate game maps (for all sorts of games) of various real places, including places I'm familiar with. Civ is the low-hanging fruit. Not to say this isn't an impressive feat; it's very cool.
- erikb 11y agoIt loaded really fast on my macbook pro in FF. Thanks for that!
- tamana 11y agoThis is why open protocols, if not open source, is so important for growing a culture.