What Star Wars map do you use?

[MandalorianJF]

What Star Wars map do you use?

I use this one (http://www.imperialsenate.co.uk/map/) (you have to have a Macromedia's Flash Player to use this map), click "open map (http://www.imperialsenate.co.uk/map/open_map.jpg)".

[Cydon]

Nice one. I use many different ones. Want to see them? If so, I'll post them in my Pictures thread.

[MandalorianJF]

Nice one. I use many different ones. Want to see them? If so, I'll post them in my Pictures thread.

Can you just post link to thous maps on here?

[Cydon]

I have 12 and don't want to go through the trouble. Go to Google Images and type in Star Wars maps. I think some of mine I got from there.

[MandalorianJF]

I have 12 and don't want to go through the trouble. Go to Google Images and type in Star Wars maps. I think some of mine I got from there.

12? WOW

[DarthSolo]

I really like that one MandoJF. I've always used www.nav-computer.com or the maps at the beginning of the NJO books.

[Cydon]

I have those ones DS there not my favorite though. I like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Galaxymap1.jpg

If you save it to your computer, you can zoom in and move around. Its from SW Insider.

[MandalorianJF]

I have those ones DS there not my favorite though. I like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Galaxymap1.jpg

If you save it to your computer, you can zoom in and move around. Its from SW Insider.

I used it before i found this one.

[MandalorianJF]

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2995/happynewyearnp0.gif http://img278.imageshack.us/img278/274/merrychristmasns4.gif http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2995/happynewyearnp0.gif

[eddie]

I now mainly use the one in the WotC RPG-book Revised Core Rulebook, as well as the Dark Horse poster-map. And I often consult the following:

http://www.cuswe.org/planets.asp

[Master Magnus]

I think the best maps can be found in the Inside the Worlds of...books. The fan made maps, which themselves are based on older official maps, disregards the newer higher canon evidence regarding the locations of a few key planets (the AOTC map which showed that Geonosis and thus Tatooine is located on the very end of a spiral arm) and the location of Naboo (the very edge of the galaxy).

[Cydon]

I agree with you Master Magnus. Though I still enjoy any map.

[DarthSolo]

I think the best maps can be found in the Inside the Worlds of...books. The fan made maps, which themselves are based on older official maps, disregards the newer higher canon evidence regarding the locations of a few key planets (the AOTC map which showed that Geonosis and thus Tatooine is located on the very end of a spiral arm) and the location of Naboo (the very edge of the galaxy).
What higher-canon evidence is that? I've never seen a map that have those three planets out on the edges...

Btw, Cydon, I really like the one you posted, which I've now saved onto my computer, and I realize kinda shows the things MM had noted.

[Cydon]

Thanks!

[thepepgal]

Either the ones in the NJO series or in the Star Wars Fact Files

[Master Magnus]

What higher-canon evidence is that? I've never seen a map that have those three planets out on the edges...

Btw, Cydon, I really like the one you posted, which I've now saved onto my computer, and I realize kinda shows the things MM had noted.
Well, we do know that Geonosis and Tatooine were located very close to each other and the yacht map showed the location of Geonosis (http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/aotc%7E/1pcaway3.jpg) and the appearance of the GFFA. The Naboo quote can be found in the novelization of TPM. I still applaud the fan made maps for all the work that went in to them and the excellent research and I still use them.

[Cydon]

Thanks for the pic MM.

[Braden Dar]

I primarily use the map from http://www.nav-computer.com, as mentioned by Darth Solo. I just wish I could figure out some computer stuff so I could make a large printout of the map I have downloaded from there. I tried once and I only managed to get a small corner of the thing.
I like that map that MJF starts us out with. Very cool, but hard to print out. :tease:

[DarthSolo]

Well, we do know that Geonosis and Tatooine were located very close to each other and the yacht map showed the location of Geonosis (http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/aotc%7E/1pcaway3.jpg) and the appearance of the GFFA. The Naboo quote can be found in the novelization of TPM. I still applaud the fan made maps for all the work that went in to them and the excellent research and I still use them.
Hmm. Odd that Lucas would put it out there on the very end. There seems to be no reason!

[Braden Dar]

Some of the locations seem to be a matter of Lucas' not knowing what he was doing when he started out and just ramming everything into a box to make it fit.
Initially, he likely thought (though I would never dare to say that he DID think) that a lot of things, like the Core worlds, would be a matter of a couple hours from the furthest reaches of wild space. But after all of the re-dos, he may have changed his mind. That would have forced him to put things further out from the Core and make a new backstory for them.
I mainly refer to the OT, though. His take on the galaxy and how it is assembled is anyone's guess.
Look at Hoth and Bespin. They are so close to one another on the big maps, yet so far apart. Sometimes, its a matter of scale how we see things.
Then there's the matter of our own planet. Its on the outer end of one of the limbs of our own galaxy. Maybe he was throwing it back to that. That we needn't look at the Outer Rim as "backwater", but as people not unlike ourselves.

Or maybe he was just running out of room to shove all of his planets into the Core worlds. Who knows.

I find it amusing some of the worlds in close galactic proximity to each other. Kashyyyk and Nal Hutta and Bothawui as an example. Spitting distance from each other, yet all so very different.
And maybe GL was trying to say that the humans aren't all some exclusive community devoid of other races. You know, a statement on our diversity on Earth.

But it could just be that he wanted to spread things out so as to fill in the gaps later with things he merchandise and make another fortune off of selling. Again...who knows.

[Cydon]

Very strange. Sometimes GL really confuses me.

[The Broox]

I use the one that Dark Horse gave out at the last ComicCon. It is the most recent official map. Thus making it the most correct.

[Cydon]

Is that on the web anywhere?

[The Broox]

Is that on the web anywhere?

http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/starwars/downloads.php?did=547

Eventually they plan to have it interactive. It looks better poster size!

[Cydon]

Thats a good one! I need to save it... Thanks Broox.

[DarthSolo]

Can't wait to see that one interactive.

[Cydon]

I wonder if you'll be able to highlight each planet and it'll have a short description.

[DarthSolo]

Or maybe click it to a link with a good article about it.

[Cydon]

That would also be nice. Perhaps with a event that happened there?

[DarthSolo]

I would assume that would come with the article.

Most interesting things to me would be their lengths of days/years/months and major cities/nations/topography.

[MandalorianJF]

^the map that I posted in the first post;
you can click the planet and it will show you the article (and a good one).

I use this one (http://www.imperialsenate.co.uk/map/) (you have to have a Macromedia's Flash Player to use this map), click "open map (http://www.imperialsenate.co.uk/map/open_map.jpg)".

[Cydon]

Didn't notice! Now I love it...

[DarthSolo]

It does have good articles. Unfortunately, it doesn't have articles for all of them. Some surprising ones like Bastion don't have articles.

[MandalorianJF]

It does have good articles. Unfortunately, it doesn't have articles for all of them. Some surprising ones like Bastion don't have articles.

Well...at least it has an article for every planet that was in the move and some more.

[Cydon]

In the move?

[MandalorianJF]

In the move?
The Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones
revenge of the Sith
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi

[Cydon]

Ahh. Thanks. Thought the move was an event.

"movie"

[MandalorianJF]

"movie"

Oh, I forgot the "i", can not believe it. :( :(

[Cydon]

*Ahem* Thats "cannot" lol

[MandalorianJF]

*Ahem* Thats "cannot" lol

Well...you know..it happens sometimes.

[Cydon]

I know. I was jokin around.

[MandalorianJF]

I know. I was jokin around.

I see
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/92/lolololju7.png

[Cydon]

Umm...thats sea:lol: Just kidding

[MandalorianJF]

Does anyone here use or used this map (http://www.therebelfaction.com/map/TRFmap.jpg)?

[Cydon]

I have it but don't use it.

[MandalorianJF]

^It was the first map that I used.

[MandalorianJF]

I have just finished spending an hour cheeking out all thous maps and dissuaded that this one (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Modimapgalaxy1.jpg) is the best.

here are the quadrants where they are located:

K 10-Coruscant
M 10-Alderaan
N 11-Cato Neimoidia
O 17-Naboo
P 9-Kashyyyk
R 17-Tatooine
R 17-Geonosis
N 19-Utapau
K 5-Mygeeto
R 6-Felucia
S 8-Seleucami
L 19-Mustafar
P 6-Yavin 4
K 18-Hoth
M 19-Dagobah
K 18-Bespin
H 16-Endor
S 14-Kamino
K 20-Polos Massa

[Master Magnus]

I wouldn't take that map so seriously as it places Tatooine and Geonosis on other places than they were located in the AOTC map. The official Star Wars Fact Files map and the maps inside Complete Locations are far better official representations (althought Modi's map is good for EU locations).

[thepepgal]

And there is this rumour going around too:

http://www.galacticsenate.com/showthread.php?t=15565

[Master Magnus]

And there is this rumour going around too:

http://www.galacticsenate.com/showthread.php?t=15565
That is not a rumour, that was confirmed some time ago and recently it was confirmed by the author.

[thepepgal]

That is not a rumour, that was confirmed some time ago and recently it was confirmed by the author.

But there has yet to have been an announcement from the OS (that I could find).

[MandalorianJF]

I wouldn't take that map so seriously as it places Tatooine and Geonosis on other places than they were located in the AOTC map. The official Star Wars Fact Files map and the maps inside Complete Locations are far better official representations (althought Modi's map is good for EU locations).

I'm going to have to look at AOTC ones more

[Braden Dar]

Does anyone here use or used this map (http://www.therebelfaction.com/map/TRFmap.jpg)?


This one seems like a retouched version of the map formerly found on nav-computer. Which I should mention, I can not get http://www.nav-computer.com to come up. It would appear that the website is no longer functional as is. Is this the case, or has there simply been a change to the site's address or something?

Anyways, it was the first map-site I found and thusly holds a spot at the top of my short list. It's kind of like FFVII. It wasn't great, it had lots of shortcomings, but it was first.

Anyways, I have saved all of the downloadable maps that have been posted here, and they'll become a key resource throughout my EU adventuring.

[MandalorianJF]

I just bought the book "The Complete Locations of Star Wars" and that book has a map of the galaxy.
This map:
1 (http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5798/mapzc1.png)
2 (http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6379/copyofmapla1.png)

[Master Magnus]

I just bought the book "The Complete Locations of Star Wars" and that book has a map of the galaxy.
This map:
1 (http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5798/mapzc1.png)
2 (http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6379/copyofmapla1.png)
Yes, that map is by far the map which most accurately depicts the location of Tatooinem Geonosis and Naboo (the only planets we know the locations from the higher canon). We know from AOTC that Geonosis and Tatooine are located at the edge of a spiral arm but the makers of the fan made maps keeps insisting that they're located near the central bulge. The "Unknown Regions" are also way too large. As this map shows, that's not the case. The only criticism I can think of about the map in the Locations books is that they're inverted (but if you'd look from the SW galaxy from 'below', it would be accurate).

[bruciarsi]

always used this map myself nothing flash but it does the trick.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/bruciarsi/sw_star_wars_galaxy_map.gif

[Braden Dar]

That map, Bruciarsi, appears to be the one that was on the site nav-computer.com. Have I mentioned that that site no longer seems to be accessible?

Anyways, it is the map I have usually deferred to, as it lists locations for almost every planet ever mentioned in the films or in the EU.

[The Broox]

Nav Computer had some trouble renewing his domain name and as of such the site no longer exists. He is looking to bring it back however.

[bruciarsi]

That map, Bruciarsi, appears to be the one that was on the site nav-computer.com. Have I mentioned that that site no longer seems to be accessible?

Anyways, it is the map I have usually deferred to, as it lists locations for almost every planet ever mentioned in the films or in the EU.

O rite. had it for ahwile now and i have no idea where i got it. could well be from that site.

Its a good map. nothing flash graphics wise but a good number of the planets and its nice how its broken up into the sectors.

[Cydon]

Hey, isn't that the map that SS stole?

[MandalorianJF]

Hey, isn't that the map that SS stole?

What does "SS" mean?

[Sam Kenobi]

I'm thinking "Super Shadow" but I don't really know.