Populating a zone with live data

[Aspirax]

Greetings-

Forgive me for asking. I've been out of the EQEmu scene since zoning was broken

I want to figure out what I can do to help. I connected to one of the servers, and create a erudite. I noticed the zone was completely void.

What can I do to help populate these?
Run the packet collector and sit in the zone for a few hours?

Official question: What do I need to do to obtain live data to use to populate a database?

Thanks, hopefully I can be of some assistance.

[Velosity]

You can use eqcollector or packet collector, i personally have not gotten them working though, i get an error with packet collector and eqcollector never collects the data

[Aspirax]

OK. Once collected, how is the data retrieved and usable for a database?