A way to find out nearby towns?

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   Hi all, i'm pretty much a tech newbie, but was wondering if there's a way to find/list out all the towns in a certain radius around any chosen town. Say for example if i wanted to find out all the towns in a 500 square radius within my capital city. I know http://illyriad.ourguild.eu/ has something similar, but it only displays towns up till 100 squares away. 
Thanks!

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Silvermania Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New Poster Joined: 04 May 2012 Status: Offline Points: 23	Topic: A way to find out nearby towns? Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 03:58
	Hi all, i'm pretty much a tech newbie, but was wondering if there's a way to find/list out all the towns in a certain radius around any chosen town. Say for example if i wanted to find out all the towns in a 500 square radius within my capital city. I know http://illyriad.ourguild.eu/ has something similar, but it only displays towns up till 100 squares away. Thanks!

HonoredMule Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1650	Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 04:17
	A 500 square radius is a pretty huge chunk of the map. I'm not sure that qualifies as "nearby." Anyway, there's no easy way to do it that I know. You'd need to do some programming at the very least.
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Rachel88 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New Poster Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Location: South Africa Status: Offline Points: 6	Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 10:40
	Silvermania why are you looking for towns within a 500 square radius?

Silvermania Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New Poster Joined: 04 May 2012 Status: Offline Points: 23	Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 13:09
	alright thanks honored mule, i'll try asking the illystats people how they went about coding for their nearby towns. @Rachel88. More out of sheer curiosity than anything else, & its good to know who your neighbors are ;) Edited by Silvermania - 20 Jun 2012 at 13:16

Albatross Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118	Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 15:00
	Yep, some folk have written apps to do that kind of thing. e.g. mine for mCrow: grin wondering if I should put this into the Alliance Recruitment forum ;o)


Silvermania Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New Poster Joined: 04 May 2012 Status: Offline Points: 23	Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 15:03
	Oh god just what i was looking for. Any chance of sharing that, from one crow to another? ;)

Albatross Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Joined: 11 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1118	Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 15:39
	For anyone else reading this, I've given Silvermania a time-limited pass key to access the app. This app is only for mCrow at the moment (and CrowW for Silvermania), so please don't ask me for one-off login accounts :o)


Ander Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Joined: 24 Apr 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1269	Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 16:38
	For those who do not have programs to do this, you can download the file elgea.illyriad.co.uk/data_downloads/datafile_towns.xml If you open it with an excel application. It will contain the data of all towns in Illy separated into columns. Add a new column "distance" to the right and put something like this in it's first cell =SQRT((G2-X)(G2-X)+(H2-Y)(H2-Y)) where X and Y are the coordinates from which you want to find the distance. The new column will get populated with the distance of the towns from the specified coordinates. You can sort the new column by distance.

Ander Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Joined: 24 Apr 2011 Status: Offline Points: 1269	Posted: 20 Jun 2012 at 16:42
	I prefer looking at map manually rather than going for programs. You get to know the lay of the land that way. (i cant say if it is of any use though. knowing the map just makes me happy!)

Diomedes Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Warrior Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 208	Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 07:17
	Somehow, it seems to me to take the fun out of the game to have all this techie stat stuff around. All power to those who enjoy it, but I'd much rather learn the lay of the land rather than trust a chart
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