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As the title notes, would it be possible to add the coordinates to the database listing? I believe you're missing out on a great deal of potency that your database could entail by not having quadrant coordinates. I see that location is there, but it's largely inaccurate and encompassing to just give a general area, when listing a coordinate can give the exact static location of a node.

I had an idea for a site actually that would have revolved around the quadrants on the map, so I've been tracking my attempts with quadrant coordinates with interesting results. But as of late I don't have the time to actually set something up. Perhaps I'm pitching an idea that's not in the mindset of where this project is going, but I feel the coordinates of the quadrant you are in plays a huge role in what you are gathering or want to find.

My initial idea for a site would have been simple, efficient and easy to use. A map of the area you were in, say Gridania for example, would be displayed and as you moused over each quadrant, a simple tool-tip would pop up showing what resources are in that quadrant. That was my whole basis for tracking coordinates. As I mentioned in a post on these forums elsewhere, you can track with great certainty where a resource is just by referring to a quadrant.

If this idea is of interest, I could elaborate more. But as I noted, I think coordinates are crucial to finding and tracking resources efficiently.

 

I can't say with certainty for fishing or spearfishing as I haven't been tracking them since I began my records. But I do know for certain that if I go to specific Harvest or Quarry nodes, I always have the same 5 results. I'm not at home so I can't cite verbatim, but a node I go to near Gridania has Bone Chips, Yellow Tinolqa Slag, Taupe Scale Bugs, Flint Stone and I think Red or Green Quartz. Everytime I go there, it always has them consistantly, It never changes.

The point I was making is that each node has 5 resources that are static. Each node has a specific quadrant that it is in. So if I for instance want Bone Chips, I know where to find them because I know what quadrant that Quarry node is in, so I visit often when needing Bone Chips to repair gear. Quarry, Harvest and Spearfishing nodes are always up too as they never collapse like a logging/mining node, which is great and makes for even easier tracking.

The Mining and Logging locations are what are more difficult to track. With those 2, naturally, you see the sparkles on a tree or in the side of a rock indicating where you can gather and these sites collapse before too long. Regardless though, they do come back eventually at the exact same spot and they always have the same 5 resources within them that you have a chance of getting.

There were a lot of trials and tribulations I went through with my records. Things I decided to not track and things I added. All in all though, I stuck with coordinates, grade, position of node within a quadrant ( generally N,S,W,E,NW,NE Etc!), then of course what notch I hit and what I got. I guess you could probably get rid of relative node position within a quadrant as all mining or logging nodes within a quadrant have the same 5 resources with only very rare exceptions. But I still track them for personal interests so in the future I can better gauge what nodes I want to find for specific resources. Some nodes are even almost directly on quadrant lines so it's hard to determine what coordinate to label my find as. But once I start gathering, I can generally tell what quadrant it falls in by matching up what other nodes in the quadrant should have or shouldn't.

For example, if I know 20:19 has Alumen in it's nodes and 20:20 doesn't and the node I gather is right on the line and I find Alumen, then it's a node I'll assituate with 20:19 for my records.

Logging/Harvesting and Mining/Quarrying locations and resources are both static. Right now for instance, I can tell you that if you want Midnight-black Scale Bugs you'd go to quadrant 17:19 in Gridania, to find a quarry node that has it. Green stain sand? 20:19 in Gridania. How about Chanterelles? 31:34 in Gridania. Just north of that is 30:34 which has a huge amount of logging nodes for Maple logs and branches.

I don't even have to login to find this out, I just use my coordinates I chartered and I can gurantee right now that if you go to those spots you'll find exactly what I cited. That's why I was saying that coordinates are hugely beneficial. And now I have to run for work, because I'm late! :)

http://ffxivmaps.com/

This site has some decent, large and grid-friendly maps. I saw some others before that were full color. I'll have a look and see though when I get home if I can find some.

It would be great if we could get some maps up listing coordinates sort of like a Google map like Kida mentioned.  It doesn't even have to be that fancy if it's too hard to implement.

I was messing around with botany the other night because I wanted to grind alch doing maple sap->maple syrup and I found certain trees that would produce at least one gather of sap every time, so what GrimFaust mentioned is accurate.  I started somewhat charting this in MSPaint and drawing different colored circles around logging and harvesting nodes and was going to put a legend in the corner of the map detailing what each node at each coordinate had.  But I have too much going on with fishing to keep up with this.

I think if we could add coordinates (mining and botany at least, fishing is irrelevant I believe) into the DoL log this would help track resources much better.  Maps can maybe wait until later.  :)

Thanks for the input about maps... as mentioned I will be able to do some kind of Google like map... but I need the raw maps... I know about FFXIVMAPS.COM and these are great. The problem is that these maps are not some that I can just take without getting in quite some problems with ffxivmaps.com I don't think they will appreciate that I just grab their maps after all the work they have done with them.

The maps at ffxivarchives.com are also great and are actually the original with no additions (as far as I can see quickly). The problem is that these are not possible to download as they are already embedded in a Google Map API. I would like the maps they are using for this but it seems it's a bit more difficult than first anticipated.

I will find some maps though but if you have more links please let me know... :D