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gudgeon
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Mysterious dot

Postby gudgeon » Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:36 am

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I'm traveling to a location and the progress is at 91%.

There are three dots on the map, the white being me. One of the two black dots should be my destination. However, there shouldn't be any other location this close. Then what is the third dot representing :?:
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Re: Mysterious dot

Postby Millhouse » Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:49 pm

I don't know the technical reason, but sometimes the two dots that represent a location don't always line up, and sometimes it's pretty far off.

I always thought of it as like layers in a layered Photoshop file. The background layer is the map with a dark smudge where the location should be and then there's a layer on top where the locations and vehicles exist. And occasionally the layers don't line up exactly.

Again, that's not a technical explanation just how I imagine it.
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Re: Mysterious dot

Postby gudgeon » Sun Aug 16, 2020 3:45 am

Interesting. I've never seen this before.
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Re: Mysterious dot

Postby Rmak » Thu Aug 20, 2020 10:36 pm

It's a black hole
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Re: Mysterious dot

Postby gudgeon » Fri Aug 21, 2020 3:15 pm

Rmak wrote:It's a black hole


I don't know what message I should send to my char's 20 year old self by pushing books down the book shelf... Her life has been pretty eventless.
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Re: Mysterious dot

Postby Greek » Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:39 am

Such dots exist on some islands, especially English ones, so I guess they were generated first. On most of the islands locations are not represented on the map image, but they are drawn separately on the image at the moment the map is displayed, just like dots for moving objects, like ships. So I think it's a harmless artifact that would be hard to fix
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Re: Mysterious dot

Postby gudgeon » Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:45 am

Greek wrote:Such dots exist on some islands, especially English ones, so I guess they were generated first. On most of the islands locations are not represented on the map image, but they are drawn separately on the image at the moment the map is displayed, just like dots for moving objects, like ships. So I think it's a harmless artifact that would be hard to fix


Thanks for the explanation of how this is generated. To me it's an interesting quirk of the map that doesn't need fixing.
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Re: Mysterious dot

Postby Rocket Frog » Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:09 pm

I've seen it many times by now at many locations.

That's the local dump area (?
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Re: Mysterious dot

Postby gudgeon » Sat Aug 29, 2020 1:24 pm

Rocket Frog wrote:I've seen it many times by now at many locations.

That's the local dump area (?


The local people need to watch the time they dump the garbage, otherwise they'll wait by the garbage pile for up to 3 hours.

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