Scheduled Search Outage

My hosting provider will be taking databases down for maintenance on Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Pacific time. This will only affect the search feature; the rest of the site should be unaffected. Ω

Tinkering

Lots of tiny tweaks and refactors, hopefully all invisible.

I've dropped support for IE7, a 6-year-old browser which, according to analytics, accounted for about as much traffic as the site was getting from gaming consoles. XP users should upgrade to IE8... or a browser that's been updated this decade like Chrome or Firefox. (XP itself is over 10 years old at this point, but I'm still developing on it!)

Oh, and a new data drop from Don so fire up your nitpicking keys! Ω

T5 Second Survey Data

As part of an ongoing development process for Traveller 5 the data set for all worlds in the Imperium are getting reviewed. With help from Don McKinney, the latest data is now live on the site. Thanks to everyone who's been contributing nitpicks and reporting errors - this information has been fed back into the process to help make sure the new data set is as high quality as possible.

The following sectors have been updated, baselined at 1105:

• Alpha Crucis
• Antares
• Core
• Corridor
• Dagudashaag
• Daibei
• Delphi
• Deneb
• Diaspora
• Empty Quarter
• Fornast
• Glimmerdrift Reaches
• Gushemege
• Hinterworlds
• Ilelish
• Ley
• Lishun
• Magyar
• Massilia
• Old Expanses
• Reaver's Deep
• Reft
• Solomani Rim
• Spinward Marches
• Trojan Reach
• Verge
• Vland
• Zarushagar

In addition, the following tweaks have been made:

• Added "Reavers' Deep" and "Reavers Deep" as aliases
• IFRAME no longer steals focus (which fixes the API page to not scroll down on load)
• Speaking of the API page, it now links to the correct AotI coverage area
• Fix Egyrn Subsector's name (thanks to Makoto MACHIDA for commenting)

Many of the data changes will be intentional, but obviously with this volume of cleanup there will be further glitches, so start the bug reports coming!

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Data Updates

Thanks to Don McKinney, data for the following sectors has been updated:

• Alpha Crucis
• Deneb
• Empty Quarter
• Glimmerdrift Reaches
• Ley
• Reft
• Solomani Rim
• Spinward Marches
• Trojan Reach

These should match the latest published data and are aligned with the T5 data cleanup. The updated Ley Sector data and slightly routes match those in Mongoose Publishing's Minor Alien Module 1: Luriani which is now available for purchase.

Other tweaks:

• Rendering: the space behind starport classes is now blanked out so they should be more readable if they overlap routes. (Does not apply for filled borders or candy style.)
• You can now specify routes=0 (API docs) in image APIs to suppress rendering routes at any scale

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Service Outage: Oct 31st

The travellermap.com site will be offline for several hours in the evening (Pacific Time) of Oct 31st, 2012.

The hosting provider is upgrading the host machine.

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Good news everyone! Following the upgrade, my monitoring site is reporting 99.9% uptime, which is a significant boost. I'm not counting any chickens, but the new hardware/software has definitely improved things.

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