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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]].
+{{:blog:sm_world.jpg?nolink |}}
+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.
+{{ :blog:sm_euressa.jpg?nolink|}}
+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.