Hmm, it doesn't seem to have been mentioned here yet, so I'll bring it up . . . there's an Atlas of the Star Wars Galaxy in the brewing.

Yeah, I just saw that too! Apparently Jason Fry and Dan Wallace are working on it together. Dan mentioned in his blog that he might be doing some bean-spilling in Memphis next week. Coolness!

Modi's Star Wars Atlas seems to be the heir apparent.

Oh, wow! Indeed. Thanks for pointing me to that!

Oh, no! I go to Ecuador for a little while, and when I come back there's no more Nav-Computer website! Best of luck with getting that back online, Carty!

In the meantime, is there somewhere else that you guys would recommend I refer people to when they ask me for galaxy maps? Browsing through the last few pages, I saw a few other people have their own things going. Is there a consensus on somewhere online to find a really good galaxy map?

Dear Eric,

Thanks for the work you put into your map. I hope you find a new place to host your site soon. The planet information is invaluable.

I also hope you agree with how I adapted your map. It closely matches Modi's coordinate system now. Not exactly, but at least there's no contradictions. When in doubt I stuck to your relative positioning of the systems.

Could you tell me what the asterisks and the two different colors of the star system names mean on your map? I wanted to look it up on your site, but the navkey page wasn't cached anywhere, not even on the internet archive.

If you want a copy of the Illustrator files, send a mail to the address on my website:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh/galaxymap
I'd have asked for your source files if I new of any way to contact you, but I didn't at the time.
Besides, it was fun to draw the entire thing by hand.

Willem

Oh man, I've wondered where you were... Hope a new site will be launched soon!!!

I've made a map of the galaxy far, far away.
You can browse and download it at:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh/galaxymap

It contains at least all the systems from Modi's map and Eric "cartographer" Przybylski's map (the site that used to be hosted at www.nav-computer.com)
I've tried to be consistent and include as much information as possible, but my main focus was to create a beautiful and usable map.
Therefore I made it as a PDF file in a similar (pretty) projection as the nav-computer map, so that you can zoom in as far as you like and search for star systems with your PDF viewer.
If you have any comments, for example if you found a mistake or have suggestions, please contact me (contact details are on the map webpage)
Enjoy!

Star Wars tried that until around '99, despite WEG asking Lucasfilm to let them make more than just local maps. Turns out, it made bigger messes than it solved, so they relented when they realized that the New Jedi Order was going to require a way of conveying the scope, strategy, and implications of the galaxywide invasion.

For that matter, Star Trek didn't have maps until 2002, and they're only quasi-canonical and not exactly adhered to anyway.

how come in KotoR one and two the galaxy map is all wrong when it comes to the position of the planets you travel to?

Sorry, I don't have a good answer to that one. Continuity-wise, I've only used those maps in trying to figure out placements for the new planets from those games.

Hi Modi
Your maps are awesome.I m a big fan of them.
Can you please make a detailed map of the Sith Space ,please

thx

Randy Stradley has this to say:

Eventually (but not immediately), the map will be featured on our website. Then, slowly but surely, we'll begin making it "interactive" -- click on a planet and get taken to a bit of info about that world, plus a list of which stories (if any) have taken place there. It'll be along term project, but once it's done it'll be a handy resource for fans and creators!

As for Lucasfilm placing them all, that's actually something they specifically DON'T want to do. Suppose an author a year from now wants to, for instance, have a disabled ship limp from Tiss'sharl to Bront. Currently, Bront isn't placed, so the author could do that quite easily. If Bront was arbitrarily placed far from Tiss'sharl (and, at this point, there's so little about Bront that its placement could only be arbitrary), that storyline wouldn't work, all because Lucasfilm unnecessarily nailed down a world.

This has been suggested before, and it looks like Dark Horse will be doing something similar to this with their online map.

However, you're still not going to get all the planets on the map, because a lot of them simply haven't been placed by Lucasfilm yet. Planets only get placed when a story or other product needs them to be placed, and a great many planets have had no such need since the map was first created.