More Data Cleanup

Thanks to the sharp eyes of commenters like 77topaz and research by Swiftbrook and others, several more data glitches have been identified and corrected:

• Gateway Domain - Gateway, Crucis Margin, Glimmerdrift Reaches, Ley Sector - checked against the Gateway to Destiny: The Gateway Domain Sourcebook, name truncations fixed
• Far Frontiers - polity capitals are now highlighted
• Ilelish - truncations fixed (guesswork)
• Yiklerzdanzh - truncations fixed (present in source SEC file as an appendix)
• Spica - bracketing characters in names removed (were these formatting codes for some program?)
• Vanguard Reaches - truncations fixed - sector file was regenerated from Chuck Kallenbach II's source data 

There are a few more things that need fixing, and certainly more sectors could use a once-over. As an administrative note, data glitches like repeating names or bogus UWPs will not be corrected on a world-by-world basis for any of these regions:

• Vargr Extents regions from Underdeveloped Sectors
• Aslan regions from the Solomani and Aslan Dotmap Reconstruction
• Zhodani Core Route from Clifford Linehan

All of these vast regions are, at best, placeholders. Should you wish to "claim" a sector and give it a thorough scrub and provide background, go for it.

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Spinward Marches 1105

The Spinward Marches has been updated (backdated?) to 1105 to match the other data updates, bringing it in line with the T5 Spinward Marches poster by FFE. The updated data is courtesy of Marc Miller, Donald McKinney and Robert Eaglestone. This includes the sector data and metadata (routes and borders).

In addition, where the "Sector Data" link was at the bottom of the map has been replaced by two clearer links: "Source" which takes you to the published source of the data (if any), and "Data", which serves up the SEC data used by the site itself.

I'm sad to report that, as part of this cleanup, the anomalous jump-5 X-boat route between Tenalphi and Strouden that's been with us since Supplement 3 is no more. It's been replaced by a jump-4 route between Tenalphi and Persephone. Gone are the days of envisioning it as everything from an experimental route to a spatial anomaly. At least in the OTU...

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Data Corrections

Thanks to Don McKinney, I have updated data for the following sectors:

• Spinward Marches
• Solomani Rim
• Alpha Crucis
• Gvurrdon
• Reft
• Trojan Reach

In addition, I made some individual world tweaks:

• Oythepru (Zhodane 2034) had bad stellar data
• Nueva Esperanza (Dagudashaag 0123) had a truncated name
• Chandra's World (Dagudashaag 2122) had a truncated name (reported by Art Gorski)
• Dho Il's World (Old Expanses 0721) had a truncated name  (reported by Art Gorski)
• Fisher's World (Old Expanses 1229) had a truncated name  (reported by Art Gorski)
• Vendtup Station (Old Expanses 2622) had a truncated name

The truncated names appeared to be a result of passing the data through a fixed width data handler at some point before the files came to me. It's possible there are others - reports welcome!

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Trying out Trello

I'm giving Trello a go as a shared/hosted bug tracking / wish list tool.

Go to the TravellerMap.com Wish List Board

Does this work for you? Try adding some items and comments. To much structure, not enough? My other options include a shared Google Spreadsheet, or a the bug tracker in a code.google.com/p project. (even though the site's code is not hosted there).

What are your thoughts?

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Rendering Fixes

Two quick rendering fixes.

• With "World Colors" checked, white-on-white worlds (e.g. Spinward Marches 0622 in Print style) should now have an outline
• Borders are now rendered as closed paths, which means small gaps near the "start" of each borders should be gone

The latter one was actually a substantial effort, but it's been sitting unpublished on my dev machine for some time now and I think I'm happy with the change.

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