New URL

The Traveller Map has a new home:

http://www.travellermap.com

This should be a little easier to remember! Note that it may take a few days for this new domain to propagate across the 'net. If it doesn't work for you, try again in a day or two. Once it's been up for a bit I'll decomission the original site. Ω

I'm back, and a few suggestions

While I was away, Roger Carden sent in a couple of suggestions that I thought I'd share, just so everyone can see what I think.

1) Set it up so that you can select a time period, so you can see what known space looked like in the Interstellar Wars era (GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars), the "Milieu 0" era (Traveller 4th Ed), 1100 era (Classic Traveller), Session Era (Mega Traveller) or the new era (The New Era).

I'd love to do this. Right now, though, finding enough data for a single era is tricky! However, some day this may be possible with judicious use of collapsing/advancing algorithms. I'd also need to finish the "produce decent borders" work.

2) How about an additional feature when you double click on a system, to create a pop up with the full planetary profile from Book 6 Scouts?

In my "started but not finished" pile is a feature that would show you the credits for a sector/subsector/world when you hovered over it or zoomed in. This could easily be extended to show the UWP. If you zoom in far enough I'd love to show the whole system.

One of my favorite sites is Extrasolar Visions, and these pages are inspirational:

http://www.extrasolar.net/distancecompare.asp
http://www.extrasolar.net/mostinteresting.asp

The former shows comparisons of known stellar systems. When I was first playing Traveller in the early 1980s I read books full of this sort of diagram. (See Worlds of the Federation for an example.) This was pure science fiction. It's astoundingly cool that this is now solid science. Ω

Offline for a bit (me, not the map)

I'm on vacation through April and won't have reliable 'net connectivity. Enjoy it while I'm gone, but don't expect any changes! Ω

Core Route - Literally

I'm playing with sorting out allegiances at the moment and there's nothing to see yet. But along the way I reviewed the Clifford Linehan's Zhodani Core Route data which I'd previously incorporated. And of course he actually charted out the routes in Galactic. So I rejiggered my SAR-to-SEC+XML converter and now I have the core route in it's full glorious detail. Ω

Routes: Massilia, Antares and Fornast

Jeff Zeitlin's work on the Antares and Fornast sectors has been incorporated, at least as far as routes go. Massilia routes are from TD #11.

So as far as routes go, things are getting pretty complete. A little bird told me that someone is doing development in the Gushemege/Dagudashaag/Ilelish/Zarushagar areas, so maybe those will be pieced in soon. Really, that just leaves Delphi, Diaspora and Verge as 3I sectors without routes.

Of course, then there's actually making the routes make sense and/or line up. Ω