EDMC plugin for Elite Dangerous surface mining with the Rhino - also as a standalone app, without EDMC.

RhinoData	Which bodies in the system are worth landing on, and for which material
Bookmarks	Save the deposit you are on: material, rigs, amount, density, position
Guide	Arrow over the game back to any bookmark, from orbit down to the SRV
Minimap	Ground you have driven in the SRV, with your bookmarks on it
Tons	Tons mined per bookmark, from the journal

Install

Two downloads on each release:

File	For
EDMC_RhinoSpotter-<version>.zip	the EDMC plugin
Standalone_RhinoSpotter-<version>-Setup.exe	without EDMC

EDMC plugin: unpack into %LOCALAPPDATA%\EDMarketConnector\plugins\RhinoSpotter\ (load.py directly inside), restart EDMC. Details: INSTALL.md. Updates: when a release is out, Bookmark reads Update. Press it, restart EDMC.

Standalone: run the Setup.exe. Per-user install, no admin, no Python. Unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen warns on first start (More info -> Run anyway). One window: RhinoData with the panel and a Settings button; the journal folder is set there. No update button: install the next Setup.exe over it.

Both read and write the same data in %LOCALAPPDATA%\RhinoSpotter\, and never run at the same time: the second one to start says which one holds the data and stays off.

The panel

1. Land, put the rigs down.
2. Set Material and Rigs. Location fills itself on landing; type over it if wrong. Leaving the location clears it. Amount / Density from the HUD are optional.
3. Press Bookmark before you drive off - the position is read at the press.

The same material within 100 m updates the existing bookmark instead of adding one.

RhinoData

RhinoData button or Ctrl+Alt+D.

• Left: landable bodies by ground type, with distance, mining locations and your bookmark count. Honk to load them from Spansh; FSS when the line under the panel asks for it.
• Middle: the body's best materials (share of locations, median Cr/t), then its bookmarks folded by location: rigs, bearing/distance from the location center, tons mined, estimated tons left.
• Right: the saved map around the bookmark and its card: Guide me there, Share bookmark, Mark depleted, Copy coords, Delete.
• In the SRV, the bookmark you stand at (175 m) is marked and preselected - Mark depleted is one click.
• A depleted mark comes off by itself after 40 days; from day 14 the card says it may be back at Low (unlikely).
• Systems with bookmarks: type three letters to jump to another system.

Material filter: only grounds that carry it	Mapped tab: saved maps per location	Edit: fix material, rigs, amount, density

Share bookmark puts one RhinoData:... line on the clipboard for Discord or a DM. Paste it into the import box under the bookmarks in another RhinoData window and press Import. Refused when that install made the line itself or already has that material within 100 m. No commander name, dates or tons in it.

Rates are where to prospect, not what a location holds - no journal says that.

Guide

Arrow top middle over the game with distance to the bookmark. Borderless or windowed only. Linux: top middle of the screen; drag it where you want it, right-click puts it back.

Minimap

Driving	Center set	Border set, 2x zoom

• Shown in the SRV while Elite is in front. Paints 2 km (scanner range) around your track; 12 km across, north up.
• Bookmarks are dots with material codes: green active, red depleted.
• At 2x: solid line to the nearest same material, dotted to the next cheaper one, with distances.
• Saved per body; relaunching within 10 km continues the same map.
• "Painted" means driven within 2 km, not proven scanned - the game logs no scan.

Key	Does
Ctrl+Alt+Z	Set the location center where you stand
Ctrl+Alt+B	Set the border (needs a center); shows drive rings, drops ground outside
Ctrl+Alt+M	Zoom 1x / 2x / 4x
Ctrl+Alt+D	Open RhinoData
Ctrl+Alt+R	Plan rigs: drive the deposit border once, back to where you started
Ctrl+Alt+P	Next rig (skip the one the arrow points at)

Keys are changeable in Settings.

Plan rigs: in the SRV, press Ctrl+Alt+R and drive round the purple border. The lap closes by itself when you are back within 10 m of the start (or press Ctrl+Alt+R again). Rigs are planned 80 m apart inside it and the arrow points at rig 1. Place the rig there; the arrow moves on to the next one.

Each dock saves a map picture; Share map on a location line opens it. Gold circles mark the best 3 golden groups: 5+ rigs within 1.25 km of the spot with the most rigs (4+ when the map has no 5), one Rhino stop. RhinoData lists a location's bookmarks in the same groups, most rigs first.

Settings

• Minimap on/off, keep it up when alt-tabbed, corner, or Free move (drag it anywhere, any monitor).
• Golden circle radius: 500-2500 m in 250 m steps, default 1250. Also sets how RhinoData groups a location's bookmarks.
• Materials in the lists: Select... tick the materials the dropdowns offer, any of 38. First start: the 18 over 50,000 Cr/t plus every material you have a bookmark for; none ticked: the 18. Exactly the ticked ones are listed; to re-mark a bookmark of an unticked material, tick it again.
• Hotkeys: modifier + key for each of the four. Linux (beta): they work while Elite has the focus (X11/XWayland). Fallback on Linux: type !rs center, !rs border, !rs zoom or !rs data in chat. It is sent as chat: others on that channel see it.

Data

Local only. Network: Spansh on honk (once a session per system, not again for 30 days, never for undiscovered systems, paused 1 h after a failed request), GitHub for updates.

What	Where
Bookmarks, bodies, maps	%LOCALAPPDATA%\RhinoSpotter\db\rhinospotter.db
Backups (last 2)	%LOCALAPPDATA%\RhinoSpotter\db\backups\
Map pictures	%LOCALAPPDATA%\RhinoSpotter\coverage\<Body>\map N.png
Material rates	mining_sheet.json in the plugin folder

Linux: $XDG_DATA_HOME/RhinoSpotter instead of %LOCALAPPDATA%\RhinoSpotter (~/.local/share, Flatpak EDMC ~/.var/app/io.edcd.EDMarketConnector/data). An older ~/RhinoSpotter is copied there once, on the first start without that folder.

Other plugins and tools read bookmarks through rs_api.py: docs/API.md.

Tools

python -m rs_core.replay --days 7 --rebuild    # load bodies from older journals - run once after installing

Debug log: RHINOSPOTTER_DEBUG=1 before starting EDMC. Code layout: structure.md.

Features

• Where to land: every landable body of the system with its mining locations and the materials its ground carries.
• Material filter: only grounds that ever carried it; type a letter in the menu to jump to it. The gear beside it picks which materials the lists offer.
• Bookmarks: material, rigs, amount, density and position of the deposit you stand on; a second press on the spot updates it, material too.
• Clusters: a location's bookmarks grouped by the spot with the most rigs and everything within the golden radius.
• Golden circles: the best 3 one-stop groups (5+ rigs, else 4+) circled on the maps, radius set in Settings.
• Guide: an arrow over the game back to any bookmark, from orbit down to the SRV.
• Plan rigs: drive the deposit border once; rigs planned 80 m apart inside it, the arrow guides to each in turn.
• Minimap: the ground you drove in the SRV, your bookmarks on it, center, border and drive rings, 3 zoom steps.
• Map pictures: saved per body, shareable with a legend and the golden circles.
• Tons mined: counted per bookmark from the journal, refreshed 5 s after the last ton.
• Depleted marks: set on the card, "may be Low" from day 14, taken off after 40 days.
• You are here: the bookmark within 175 m of the SRV marked and picked; locations within 5 km unfolded.
• Share bookmark: one line for Discord; paste it into the import box in another RhinoData window.
• Spansh: bodies of a new system filled in on the honk.
• Updates: from inside EDMC; your data stays outside the plugin folder.