and some more ideas:
- honor the screen aspect ratio to have minimap window in the same size
- autp-update maybe once an hour + compensate brightness for time of day so map looks about the same all time
- move options to mod options so no more buttons and headline in the minimap ;)

nice. would be even better if it would auto-hide when leaving the regular game screen (e.g. into research / resupply / ..)

Yeah, that likely would I was already trying something like that for my companion shuttle mod.

It would be nifty if there was something drawn on the map to show where the camera currently is; the ideal would probably be a box showing the edges of the screen, but given that you can zoom into head-height and look at the horizon, that sounds like it would involve some tricky maths, so possibly isn't worth the trouble.