Service Outages

Apparently there's a lot more traffic than normal to the map site, and it's causing the server to restart on a fairly regular basis. It's not clear what the cause is at the moment - likely a resource leak or some other bug that's not usually obvious on the site.

My apologies for the inconvenience. I may need to shut some services down to try and isolate the problem. Ω

Another Non-Update

Nothing to report yet (June got busy!) but I have been doing some behind the scenes work.

The tiled, dragable map display logic used for the main map (and iframe) and the touch version were completely separate code. If you've played with the touch version you know it has some nicer features, such as intermediate zoom levels and using available images while others are loading so zooming in is a much more pleasant process. I've been working to unify the code between these, and it's almost done - I just need to get the overlay and the you are here features for the iframe API ported over and I can push the update.

As a side effect, this will allow devices supporting touch events (iOS, Android, etc) to interact with the main map page, although the interface will still be kludgy. That'll be the next thing to fix, followed by those data updates I was promising. Ω

Non-Update

Sorry about the lack of updates recently. Home and work have been quite busy lately and there's usually a baby sleeping next to my dev box.

I'm penciling in a weekend in June to do some work on the site, including: world data tweaks (per comment threads), border updates, and back-porting some of the "touch" code to the main page for smoother zooming. Ω

Julian Protectorate Routes

More data cleanup happening - see the comments thread at http://travellermap.blogspot.com/2012/02/data-corrections.html:

• Hinterworlds out-sector routes
• Gvurrdon allegiances
• Kaa G!'kul UWPs
• Other misc tweaks

Mike Kuehn submitted trade routes for the Julian Protectorate - that's Amdukan, Mendan, Ingukrax and Star's End sectors, with a few tweaks in Antares and Empty Quarter. Ω

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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