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====== Old Maps of Habisfern ======

Back in the days before I had a means to serve dynamic web pages
to an unsuspecting world, I had a complex set of scripts which
built a static web site from source files. One of the features of
these scripts was that they could generate maps for some of my
fantasy campaign [[../habisfern/index|encyclopedias]].

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When the site was moved to //Alfresco//, this ability was
lost. The process consisted of various XSLT plugins that generated
a graphical map from XML files, cropping and scaling as required
and producing both thumbnails and full sized maps. Rather than
attempting a quick and dirty fix to replicate the old static maps,
I decided to drop support for now and wait until I'd re-written the
mapping software to produce fully dynamic maps in the style of
Google Maps.

That was six months ago, and the number of lines of code written
for the new mapping software has been exactly zero.

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Which means that my fantasy encyclopaedia has been without any maps
for too long. Rather than start a flurry of activity to finish the
software (I was surprised to see that it's further along than I'd
remembered), I've pulled some of the old static maps out of retirement
and added them to the [[../habisfern/index|encyclopedia]].
They're not complete, but it's a start, and helps to show a bit about
what the world looks like.

The image of a globe above was actually generated by the original
version of the software and exported to
[[http://www.shatters.net/celestia/|Celestia]].
It was what gave me the original idea for my 
[[../traveller/index|Traveller mapping project]], which is
another thing that is taking too long to complete.