Urban Dead Revive Radar

The Urban Dead Revive Radar is a GreaseMonkey script which will show you the distance to the nearest 3 (or more) revivification points. It performs this mystical feat by downloading a small file (no more than once per day, since they don't change that frequently) which contains the coordinates of all publicly-known reviv-points. I simply look at the wiki page given above and manually generate the list once in a while—the file is currently located on my server.

As of July 2007, I no longer have time to maintain UDRR, but it's still available here as a service to UD players. If anyone wants to take the code and run with it, be my guest.

If you use UDRR, would you mind sending me an email to let me know what you think of it? Good, bad, or indifferent... but do try to be civil =) My address is matt at mattandchristy dot net (apologies for the obfuscation and additional hassle). The list of revive points is not maintained by me—see Creedy Defense Force for information.

Troubleshooting:

If UDRR isn't showing up underneath the main (right) side of the screen when you're playing UD, open the JavaScript Console and see if it printed any messages. Email me at matt at mattandchristy dot net and I'll do my best to help you. Pleae include your Firefox version number (I use 1.5.0.1), OS platform and version (I use OS X 10.4.5), and GreaseMonkey version (I use 0.6.4). Also: if you installed GreaseMonkey just to install UDRR—did you remember to restart Firefox before installing UDRR?

Many thanks to:

the Creedy Defense Force for hosting the coordinates list
the creator of JSON
the creator of the Urban Dead UDMap userscript
the creators of GreaseMonkey
Kevan, for creating such a fun and addicting game

Release notes:

version 0.5: CDF takes over maintaining the revivification point list. Also, I know it still has a small bug in the coordinate detection code; sometimes it will be 1 square off from where the point actually is. Sorry, I just haven't had time to look into it!
version 0.4: I had snarfed some coordinate detection code from UDMap, but it was occasionally giving bad information. I looked at the code today, and was completely puzzled about why they did what they did. I simplified and hopefully corrected the code. My code has one small bug, however: when you get all the way to the left or top edges of the map (or both), distances will be displayed wrong. I hope to fix this in a future release, but I've had 0.4 done for about 3 weeks now and haven't had time to fix it, so I decided to release anyhow.
version 0.3: added notes to server coordinates file and released this version to display them
version 0.2: initial release to public

Urban Dead Revive Radar was created by Matt Cooper. Feel free to use the code for any non-malicious purpose, and it would be great if you would contribute your work at least to me if not to the community at large.