TravellerMap Data Format

[ovka]

A year or so ago, I was using Campaign Cartographer's Sector Import functionality to create some sector maps. Recently, I upgraded to CC3+ and tried doing that again. Unfortunately, I got a few strange results.

The Allegiance codes sheet and layer is pulling in the first two characters from the Ex field in the data, the travel zones are not being added, the gas giants are not being added, and the bases are not being added. There may be other oddities, but those are the ones that jump out at me.

Is this a change to the data format on the TravellerMap site, or was CC3+ not set up to work play nicely with TravellerMap?


(BTW, I tried a similar post on the ProFantasy site last week and have seen no responses).

Cheers,

Baron Ovka

 

[tjoneslo]

It looks like the CC3+ version isn't handling the newer T5 format. It should be possible to pull the older sec format.

https://travellermap.com/data/<Sector>/sec

 

[ovka]

I finally got this figured out. I took the Example.cfg file provided in the System/Traveller directory and modified the first two lines at the top from

msec source = http://www.travellermap.com/MSEC.aspx?sector
sec source = http://www.travellermap.com/SEC.aspx?sector

to

msec source = https://travellermap.com/api/msec?type=MSEC&sector=?sector
sec source = https://travellermap.com/api/sec?type=SEC&sector=?sector

Now, as log as I select that configuration file when I import the data, it works as it should.

Cheers,

Baron Ovka

 

[inexorabletash]

I didn't know CC was still using the old "aspx" aliases. I can add those back.

 

[ovka]

I'm guessing that's what it was trying to use, but I don't know that for sure.

The file I modified was just a sample that they provided with the program distribution. It's possible that the program uses hard-coded values. :rant:

If you want to add those aliases back, I am willing to test and see if that fixes the problem.

Cheers,

Baron Ovka

 

[inexorabletash]

Hrm... I just did a fresh install of CC3 and COS3 (not CC3+) and it worked with no config changes - I was able to use the import pipeline to import Afawahisa and Far Frontiers.

(Turns out the site does still support the "aspx" APIs)

So... whatever's going on is not that simple.

Might be specific to CC3+, which I don't have? Maybe the config format changed and they didn't update the files?

 

[ovka]

Good to know. Thanks for your efforts. If I remember correctly, if cc3 couldn't find the file it was looking for, it just errored out. Now it seems that cc3+ looks at the T5 data when it can’t find what it is looking for. It appears to be a case of error checking gone awry.

I will pist on the Profantasy boards and see what their thoughts are.

Cheers,

Baron Ovka