Traveller Map - sector booklet (really superb)

[OjnoTheRed]

BeRKA just posted this on Facebook, great find:

http://travellermap.com/booklet.html

You can select from an OTU sector or paste in your own sector data. You need to provide some meta-data (subsector names and locations, x-boat routes and borders - use an OTU sector to see how the XML is formatted).

It lays out a booklet in the style of Supplement 3 or Supplement 10. It includes columns for T5 data - the Importance, Economic and Cultural Extensions. The booklet includes an index at the end for all the map symbols used, and a world index (worlds in alpha order with both subsector letter and sector co-ordinate). The booklet is perfectly paginated for printing (or converting to a PDF).

Marvellous!

 

[Vargas]

I've downloaded two myself.

 

[Lycanorukke]

Useful, though where did the sector data come from? (Some from Trav Map obviously. Mongoose?)

Now I have three different types of star arrangements (from canon sources) for a specific system = M4V+K8D, M1V+M4V and M4V+K8V.

When conflicts come to a head which is used?

 

[Drakon]

When conflicts come to a head which is used?

I have been considering Travellermap.com to be canonical and updated/corrected from other sources. I had a similar problem with Lemish, and this is how I solved it.

It seems to me that when they report stars, the primary star should be reported first, and the Primary will be the larger, more massive of the two stars. Of the 3 sets you give, M1V+M4V is the only one that fits that format.

 

[Vladika]

Really enjoying this! Gives me easy to reproduce maps for markups. Thanks much.

 

[77topaz]

I have been considering Travellermap.com to be canonical and updated/corrected from other sources. I had a similar problem with Lemish, and this is how I solved it.

It seems to me that when they report stars, the primary star should be reported first, and the Primary will be the larger, more massive of the two stars. Of the 3 sets you give, M1V+M4V is the only one that fits that format.

Actually, both M1V+M4V and M1V+K8D fit that format - "D" designates dwarf stars, which have low mass.

Also, you can actually view the sources of data on TravellerMap.

 

[inexorabletash]

Useful, though where did the sector data come from? (Some from Trav Map obviously. Mongoose?)

It's exactly the same data as the map.

The first page of each booklet should include specific data source credits, below the FFE copyright notice. If you are not seeing that, please tell me which sector.

There's also http://travellermap.com/doc/credits.html of course.

 

[shield]

how long does it take to generate the booklet?

 

[Vladika]

how long does it take to generate the booklet?

About 5 seconds on my computer.

 

[shield]

Hmmh, just sits there saying fetching data on mine

 

[tjoneslo]

Hmmh, just sits there saying fetching data on mine

I've found that the Traveller Map site goes down (returns a 500 error) from time to time and that the sector booklet then does exactly what you are describing. Generally about 5 minutes later it's back. I'd give it five minutes then refresh the page to get it to start the download again.

 

[77topaz]

Hmmh, just sits there saying fetching data on mine

It can also sometimes do that if there's something wrong with the data submitted or you selected a non-existent sector.

 

[Vladika]

It can also sometimes do that if there's something wrong with the data submitted or you selected a non-existent sector.

Hmmh, just sits there saying fetching data on mine

Try Spinward, Corridor, Vland or Core. They all worked for me and very fast. Some Sectors are not yet complete.

 

[inexorabletash]

Hmmh, just sits there saying fetching data on mine

What OS and Browser?

As noted on the blog (http://travellermap.blogspot.com/2014/01/custom-booklets.html), custom booklet support required some rather advanced browser support. It's tested in Chrome and Firefox only - you may have hit some missing functionality. Or just a bug.

If you want an existing sector, you can avoid the fancy stuff by just hitting:

http://travellermap.com/booklet.html?sector=SECTORNAME

e.g.

http://travellermap.com/booklet.html?sector=Ley

 

[GypsyComet]

Its doing the same for me.
(Old Safari and MacOS on PPC)

 

[Highorbit_drifter]

Its a great map and I love the functionality, but you might want to put a browser detector in where this fancy stuff happens. Give a warning that not all browsers are supported or something like that. Not block people per se, but give them the heads-up that it works better on a different browser.

BTW it works great for me, an older Mac with Firefox. I do get the occasional 500 error though, but not often.

 

[Vargas]

As an aside, I wish 2201 Spinward Marches could be consistently referred to as Dentis and not Tentis.

(See sig below )

 

[rancke]

As an aside, I wish 2201 Spinward Marches could be consistently referred to as Dentis and not Tentis.

(See sig below )

Are you sure? You wouldn't want us to call it Dentas or Dentes or Dentos or Dentys?

Dentos has a nice ring to it. A sort of Ancient Greekish vibe.


Hans

 

[Baron]

Are you sure? You wouldn't want us to call it Dentas or Dentes or Dentos or Dentys?

Dentos has a nice ring to it. A sort of Ancient Greekish vibe.


Hans

Or a breath mint.

 

[Highorbit_drifter]

Or a breath mint.

With a UWP of C979500-A, it was obviously colonized relatively recently by a group of megacorp backed dentists, come to exploit the natural menthol produced by the native plants. There is so much menthol, in fact, that the atmosphere is tainted by it.

Being dentists, however, they were naturally rebellious, and quickly overthrew their corporate overlords. Unable to form a coherant government, let alone a culture, they have scattered into communities of only several hundred dental assistants each, lead by their primary dentist. Power is held only by those who control the dreaded dental drill.

They occasionally trade their precious breath mints with passing interstellar travellers for bits of high tech and clean lab coats.