I was reading through and I know I caught a few references to compiling the coordinates for the map in the book. I know there was some references to others, but even the one that kinda looks like the one from the book has a different coordinate reference. For instance The Wheel is on R7 in the core but Q9 on the online one.

So did anyone ever do this?

Like Hutts mating, its best not to think about it much beyond knowing it exists and, somehow, works. The coordinate system has been around so long and been used and abused by so many different artists that trying to figure out any kind of consistency is about as easy as counting midiclorian by touch. Pick the map you like, use it, and leave it at that.

Oh my gawds!

So I'm reading this thread about maps.

I like the line about Hutt mating.

My mind thinks back to me reading about Hutts being hermaphrodidic (sp?).

New encounter idea ensues: You go to meet with your Hutt benefactor. As you enter the throne room, you are immediately approached by its majordomo.

"Our excellencies labor has had some complications, we need your help!" What do you do?

Sorry for that. I have a bad cold, I think its giving me delusions...

Well, telling a Hutt to go fu<k itself is just a wishing of prosperity upon its clan...

Don't bother. Getting too specific, even trying to figure out what are the coordinates, trying to bring out a compass to measure distances and try to get travel times down to the exact hour or minute is pointless or

Best map i have seen was in "The Essential Atlas" but it assumes a flattened disk, and not something that could be around 1000 light years thick.

Don't bother. Getting too specific, even trying to figure out what are the coordinates, trying to bring out a compass to measure distances and try to get travel times down to the exact hour or minute is pointless or

I'm not trying to do that. I'm trying to have a map that I know all the players have that when I make a reference to a location (or find one myself) that we have an easier way of finding that location on a map than just scanning around aimlessly till we find if.

The characters supposedly will know where they are and some info about what's in between them and somewhere I mention. Having an easier way to look things up will represent that character knowledge that the players might not have.

Then I'd say the map on PG 328 is your best bet. There'd have to be some player editing and GM correction (most civilian PCs wouldn't have heard of Yavin, Hoth, or Endor until after Ep IV, V, and VI respectively), but it's there, it's pretty complete, and anyone with access to the core rulebook has a copy.

As per A is for Astrogation:

http://triumphdespair.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/a-is-for-astrogation/

I create a galaxy map with my players. Everyone rolls in session 1 to identify their home planet, but every other location is determined by a dice roll. Took the Star Wars fanboys in my group a while to come round, but they love it!

Need a canon planet, but don't know where it is? Easy, roll the dice abd plot it. I may be one of the only people in this community who likes this approach, but it is a lot of fun.

I was reading through and I know I caught a few references to compiling the coordinates for the map in the book. I know there was some references to others, but even the one that kinda looks like the one from the book has a different coordinate reference. For instance The Wheel is on R7 in the core but Q9 on the online one.

So did anyone ever do this?

Where are you seeing The Wheel in Q9? Everywhere I've looked (EotE core book, Wookiepeedia, Essential Atlas, and Essential Atlas Online Companion) show it in R7.

I guess more to the point, I think the coordinates for systems, sectors, etc. have all been fairly standardized for most canon locations, and I haven't seen them vary, at least not in any recent sources. The online appendix here lists pretty much everything except for the most recent additions to canon, I think

I was reading through and I know I caught a few references to compiling the coordinates for the map in the book. I know there was some references to others, but even the one that kinda looks like the one from the book has a different coordinate reference. For instance The Wheel is on R7 in the core but Q9 on the online one.

So did anyone ever do this?

Where are you seeing The Wheel in Q9? Everywhere I've looked (EotE core book, Wookiepeedia, Essential Atlas, and Essential Atlas Online Companion) show it in R7.

What about that god-awful map in Beyond the Rim?

I was reading through and I know I caught a few references to compiling the coordinates for the map in the book. I know there was some references to others, but even the one that kinda looks like the one from the book has a different coordinate reference. For instance The Wheel is on R7 in the core but Q9 on the online one.

So did anyone ever do this?

Where are you seeing The Wheel in Q9? Everywhere I've looked (EotE core book, Wookiepeedia, Essential Atlas, and Essential Atlas Online Companion) show it in R7.

What about that god-awful map in Beyond the Rim?

Well, okay, there is that, I suppose. Though it's worth pointing out that the description in Beyond the Rim itself even calls out that it's just an abstract representation more than a real 'map' per se.

Still, the graphic design decision to throw coordinates on it strikes me as a bit misguided.

I was reading through and I know I caught a few references to compiling the coordinates for the map in the book. I know there was some references to others, but even the one that kinda looks like the one from the book has a different coordinate reference. For instance The Wheel is on R7 in the core but Q9 on the online one.

So did anyone ever do this?

Where are you seeing The Wheel in Q9? Everywhere I've looked (EotE core book, Wookiepeedia, Essential Atlas, and Essential Atlas Online Companion) show it in R7.

What about that god-awful map in Beyond the Rim?

Well, okay, there is that, I suppose. Though it's worth pointing out that the description in Beyond the Rim itself even calls out that it's just an abstract representation more than a real 'map' per se.

Still, the graphic design decision to throw coordinates on it strikes me as a bit misguided.

We intend to play it that the 'abstract map' is something like what appears on children's placemats in a spacers' cafe.

Don't bother. Getting too specific, even trying to figure out what are the coordinates, trying to bring out a compass to measure distances and try to get travel times down to the exact hour or minute is pointless or

Best map i have seen was in "The Essential Atlas" but it assumes a flattened disk, and not something that could be around 1000 light years thick.

Well, the coordinate system they have is still pretty **** big. Using the alphabet-number grid on the EotE map, or the ones you can find on the internet, each of the coordinate squares is 5,000 light years across... If the galaxy is "only" about 1,000 light years thick, then the approximate coordinate system still works even if it does come across as being flattened.

I was reading through and I know I caught a few references to compiling the coordinates for the map in the book. I know there was some references to others, but even the one that kinda looks like the one from the book has a different coordinate reference. For instance The Wheel is on R7 in the core but Q9 on the online one.

So did anyone ever do this?

I posted an Excel sheet of the coordinates from the core rulebook on my blog.

Usually if you want a detailed map, you do not need to go beyond a sector map (Elrood, Tapani, Kathol are a few known sector maps from WEG)

I was reading through and I know I caught a few references to compiling the coordinates for the map in the book. I know there was some references to others, but even the one that kinda looks like the one from the book has a different coordinate reference. For instance The Wheel is on R7 in the core but Q9 on the online one.

So did anyone ever do this?

I posted an Excel sheet of the coordinates from the core rulebook on my blog.

Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for.