galaxy map

@elite-dangerous-almanac/core / galaxy-map

galaxy-map

The galaxy map's location markers — the icons the game draws over systems, and the colours it draws them in.

Ask for one marker by symbol, or read the whole catalogue:

import { getGalaxyMapMarkerColor, GALAXY_MAP_MARKERS } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/galaxy-map';

getGalaxyMapMarkerColor('conflict-zone'); // -> '#FFAE00'
GALAXY_MAP_MARKERS[0].symbol;             // -> 'bookmark'

A symbol also names the marker's vector asset, so one string gives both the colour and the file:

import { getGalaxyMapMarker } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/galaxy-map';

const symbol = getGalaxyMapMarker('titan')?.symbol ?? 'unknown';
`assets/galaxy-map/${symbol}.svg`; // -> 'assets/galaxy-map/titan.svg'

The package exports that path under @elite-dangerous-almanac/core/assets/. A bundler resolves an asset import statically, so write the whole specifier as a literal — @elite-dangerous-almanac/core/assets/galaxy-map/titan.svg — rather than building it from a symbol at run time.

Every shape in an asset paints with currentColor, and the root <svg> carries the marker's own colour. A host that embeds the file inline therefore recolours it with one CSS color declaration, and one that loads it with <img> keeps the game's colour. front-line.svg is the exception: its frame holds the literal GalaxyMapMarker.frameColor, which no color declaration reaches.

A marker is safe to embed inline as supplied: it holds only static svg, title, defs, mask, filter, feGaussianBlur, g, use, path, rect, circle and ellipse elements, and every href, mask and filter points inside the same file. There are no scripts, styles, event-handler attributes, foreign or media elements, links or external references. Every definition id is unique across the set, so a page can inline all of them.

The catalogue carries no display name. Each asset's <title> holds the English label, which is also what a screen reader announces for an inline-embedded marker.

Interfaces

• GalaxyMapMarker

Variables

• GALAXY_MAP_MARKERS

Functions

• getGalaxyMapMarker
• getGalaxyMapMarkerColor