Minor fixes, interface tweaks

In order to increase the screen area available for search results, I've increased the section of the right-hand control panel that expands/collapses to include all of the style/appearance options. Previously this included only the label options. Also, to make the "Scroll Map" buttons more useful they now scroll the map by a much greater distance, and the scrolling is animated.

Feedback appreciated. I'm still trying to retain the visual style of the GURPS Traveller mockup that was the inspiration for the site. Is that holding the map back too much? Should I move to a more modern appearance with controls overlaying the map? (I'm planning to do that anyway for the touch-based version)

A handful of tiny bug fixes:

• legend popup once again shows using current visual style
• blue zones (for TNE) now render as gray in Atlas style (thanks to Alvin Plumber for the bug report)
• Cleaned up metadata glitches in the XML (thanks to Mark McSweeny for the bug report)
• Prevent overlapping map animations

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Allegiance Fixes

Minor tweaks:

• Included allegiance table in SEC.aspx (example)
• Fix TY allegiance in Chit Botshti and Ghoekhnael
• Fix Ef allegiance in Ktiin'gzat (sorry about the label placement; need to work on that)
• Fix VW allegiance in Tuglikki

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Blue Zones and Research Stations

Two tiny changes based on recent requests:

At the request of Alvin Plummer I've added support for "Blue Zones" the convention in Traveller TNE for Technologically Elevated Dictatorships. Since the map site is nominally 1100-era, there shouldn't be any of these visible but if you upload custom data that contains "B" for the travel zone (as opposed to "A" for Amber, "R" for Red, "F" for Zhodani/Forbidden and "U" for Zhodani/Unabsorbed) it will be rendered with a blue circle.

It was pointed out by Peter Darton that the Legend is missing a description of the Research Station glyphs. I've added this, although it's probably still not clear that the "Gamma" symbol Γ is only used if the actual station identifier is not known (e.g. Research Station Epsilon shows Ε).

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Parameter Update - Styles

Previously, specifying the visual style of the map ("Poster", "Atlas", or "Candy") was done via the options query parameter. To simplify this and allow room for future expansion, a style parameter has been added. This takes one of the values "poster", "atlas" or "candy". Examples:

• http://travellermap.com/?style=atlas
• http://travellermap.com/Poster.aspx?sector=Spinward+Marches&subsector=c&style=candy

Legacy URLs that embed the style via options bits will continue to be supported indefinitely, but new "permalinks" will use the new parameter. The API documentation has been updated to reflect the new usage. Ω

Campaign Cartographer Traveller Maps

As seen on the interwebs: a preview of Cosmographer 3, which will include Traveller mapping capabilities and maps. Looks very pretty!

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