Something I often miss when creating a new colony, is the ability to sort the locations and filter them so I can get a short list of whichever type of attributes that I'd like (say, is it mountainous or flat, which biome is it, which stone types are around, is there a river of a certain size etc) ... my programming awareness says that it shouldn't be all that difficult to read all the locations doing map generation and be able to filter that list (highlighting tiles that fulfil the listed criteria), but at the same token I don't really have a clue where to start or how to do it.
Is there any sort of mod that already does this?
Isn't
PrepareLanding, what you are looking for ?
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=34592.0
yep, that pretty much fit all the criteria