Make it easier to view "areas" (from area protection mod)

[dennisjenkins75]

The mapserver shows "prot-blocks" when zoomed way in. This is nice. Would be really nice if one could also see an overlay of the "areas" as well. This would make it easier to see unclaimed territory (for yourself, or for helping a new player find a "good spot" for their own use).

The areas are currently exposed via a json API and can be scraped out-of-game:

$ wget -q https://pandorabox.io/api/areas -O - | jq -c '.[] | select(.owner == "1hit")'

I have multiple ideas, and they are not necessarily mutually exclusive:

1. Enhance the map server to allow viewing of areas. Granted that the map server shows a 2d slice, and areas are 3d and can be quite tall (up to 128, or 512, depending on player's priv)
2. Create an offline tool (python or lua script) that one can run manually that would grab their areas and convert them into a SVG. However, doing this won't make it super easy to correlate the resulting 3d image with the map server.

[Klaranth]

@OgelGames @S-S-X
I like to see some response to this idea.

[OgelGames]

@BuckarooBanzay is the one that does the mapserver stuff, I have no clue how that all works :D

Also it's probably better to move this to the mapserver issues.

[Klaranth]

@OgelGames @BuckarooBanzay
Ok, how do I move stuff?

[OgelGames]

I don't think it's possible to move issues between organizations, only to other repos in the same one. I think the only way is to copy it to a new issue. (and maybe also link the previous issue)

[Klaranth]

Okay, so where is the mapserver repo ?
Is this the one :
https://github.com/minetest-mapserver/mapserver/issues

[OgelGames]

Is this the one :
https://github.com/minetest-mapserver/mapserver/issues

Yes

[dennisjenkins75]

(Manually) Moved to minetest-mapserver/mapserver#178