EVE Online 2D map

EO-Map draws New Eden as a real 3D starfield, with every system at its true light-year position. One button in the top left flattens it into the official 2D map layout the game itself publishes, and the whole universe animates from one arrangement to the other. Same stars, same stargates, same routes and overlays, rearranged. It is free, it runs in the browser, and it needs no account to see EVE Online as a flat map of New Eden.

What the flat map of New Eden actually is

Most browser maps produce a 2D view by throwing away one axis of the real coordinates. EO-Map does not. Every solar system carries a second, separately authored position that ships with the game's own static data and is the layout the in-game 2D map uses.

The difference matters, because the published layout is a designed piece of cartography rather than a projection:

• Coverage is complete: all 5,485 rendered systems have a published 2D coordinate, so nothing is left behind or invented.
• It is deliberately de-crowded. The flat layout spans about 115 by 133 light years against the physical 89 by 101, so the dense middle of the cluster has room to breathe.
• Nearest-neighbour spacing bears that out: the closest pair in the flat layout is 0.486 light years apart, where simply flattening the real coordinates puts thousands of systems inside half a light year of each other.
• Zarzakh is set 3.31 light years clear of everything else, exactly as the in-game 2D map shows it, even though it physically sits near the middle of the cluster.

How the morph works

Switching layouts is an animation, not a page reload. The universe rearranges around you in 800 milliseconds on a smoothstep curve, so it starts gently and settles without overshooting.

The toggle disables itself for the length of the morph, and inside Solar System View. Your choice is remembered between visits, and a session left in the flat layout boots straight into it with no start-up spectacle.

What follows the map, and what does not

Flattening the universe is only useful if everything drawn on it comes along. Stars and their glow layers, stargate lines, route ribbons, route labels, the selected-system corona, region outlines and the Activity, Incursions and Faction Warfare overlays are all rewritten on every frame of the morph. Click targets move with them, so a star is always where you click it.

One thing is deliberately hidden. The jump-range bubble is a sphere whose radius is a real light-year distance, and the flat layout is not metric space, so drawing it there would assert a measurement that does not exist. It is suppressed in 2D and returns in 3D. The in-range star tint and halo rings stay visible in both, because that membership is computed from the real coordinates and remains true either way.

The same rule holds everywhere. Routes, jump ranges, light-year readouts and every hop distance in the Route Systems window come from the physical positions in both layouts. The flat layout changes what you see, never what the map tells you.

Where the data comes from

Both position sets come from the pinned official EVE Online Static Data Export, build 3464040, and travel together in the same startup database: 5,485 solar systems, 13,978 directed stargate connections, 799 constellations and 70 regions. The flat coordinates cost about 30 KB over the wire and added no network request at all.

How to open it

1. Open EO-Map. It starts in the 3D starfield unless you have chosen otherwise before.
2. Look at the command bar in the top left: the search box, then Reset, then the layout button.
3. The button names where it will take you, so it reads 2D while the 3D starfield is showing.
4. Click it once and watch the cluster flatten into the published layout.
5. Click the same button, now reading 3D, to go back. Round trips are exact, so nothing drifts.

Part of EO-Map

The layout toggle is not a separate mode or a second map. It is one control on EO-Map's interactive map of New Eden, so a flat session still plans routes and still shows live kills, current alliance sovereignty, faction warfare contest state and system activity. Pick whichever arrangement fits the question you are asking.

Related tools

• Route planner, for stargate routes that draw correctly in either layout.
• Sovereignty map, which reads well flat because the territory blocks separate cleanly.
• System finder, to highlight matching systems across the whole cluster.
• Cinematic mode, for the presentation view of the 3D starfield.
• Embed map, to put the same 2D or 3D layout in an iframe on another site.
• All EO-Map features.

Frequently asked questions