Anyone recommend some software?
Aug. 13th, 2010 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My brother is looking for some software - anyone think of decent software that does this?
I can think of a big diagram and linking together all the individual parts so that it creates a map of the system and then what makes up those parts and then what makes up those parts until you get down to a level of granularity that actually is useful.
E.g. the World is made up of continents, on each continent there are factions, each faction owns lands, armies and people, Each faction has an ethos. Each land is made up of regions. Each region has a number of towns and cities. Each City is controlled by a Group. Each group has a leader, a Name, and a number of players in it.
And so on down in detail.
You could have a massive database of this... but I'd prefer some kind of picture representation. Even better one that you can focus on the individual parts (zoom in and out so to speak).
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Date: 2010-08-13 09:54 am (UTC)For example, in our software we have a County boundary layer, parish boundaries, street maps, woods and then trees. Each can have attributes (species = ethos etc) and you can link the hierarchy as well as having non-feature tables in the Geodatabase which can link to feature attributes. Now ESRI's ArcMap isn't cheap but there are open source GIS solutions out there. One of them might do the job....
http://opensourcegis.org/ might have something useful
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Date: 2010-08-13 09:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 10:00 am (UTC)It's GIS tuned to the needs of the RPGer. Same principles as what I do, but for fantasy maps.
(I'm presuming by his mentioning "players" this is all in a gaming context)
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Date: 2010-08-13 10:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 10:05 am (UTC)http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Also, the more impressive but a tad squirmy
http://www.thebrain.com/?gclid=CP-Uqt6ZtqMCFUte4wodtFiHbw
In general, he's after MindMapping software.
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Date: 2010-08-13 10:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 10:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 12:04 pm (UTC)Though not sure how good it is.
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Date: 2010-08-13 11:08 am (UTC)Most mindmapping software will do that sort of thing, but zim+graphviz makes it trivially easy to do, and both should be in the repos of any reasonable distro. They're also both useful for other things.
(If your brother doesn't use GNU/Linux, then Zim can be downloaded from http://zim-wiki.org/downloads.html and graphviz from http://www.graphviz.org/ )
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Date: 2010-08-13 01:32 pm (UTC)