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Originally Posted by Jetlack
We need a galactic map like the ones in the Elite/Frontier/First Encounters space games by David Braben. Actually the way its done in those games is pretty cool and easy to understand from a spatial perspective, with the stars on stalks so one can measure the distance relative to the galactic plane.
Surely we have enough knowledge of thousands of stars in our galaxy to begin making such a map?
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Yes, there was this set of computer games called Elite/Frontier/First Encounters that had maps like that based off of pretty good data as I recall
If you want more up to date/accurate ones you would just have to get the data from the various surveys and feed it into a program to generate them (or do it manually), though only a relatively small portion of the galaxy has had its distances measured by direct methods (parallax is the main and possibly only one),
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