Recent content by Joshua Bell

Sorry for a delayed comment but: Good article on this topic in this month's SciAm (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-planets-lose-their-atmospheres) - I was surprised to learn that thermal effects are far less important factors for atmospheric leakage than I'd thought. Mars...

My map site can do it online: http://www.travellermap.com/post.htm It's kinda squirrelly. Skip down to the form at the bottom, blank out the data and metadata fields, paste what you have, pick some options, and cross your fingers.

In contemporary zombie aficionado parlance, this is the distinction between "shamblers" (classic Night of the Living Dead-style, moaning and stumbling) and "runners" (popularized in 28 Days Later)

If we're restricting the data to *tabular* structures, then SEC or CSV or XML doesn't really matter. CSV can be extensible... if you limit the extensibility to additional columns. What XML or JSON (which I'm partial to) offer is a richer data structure (trees, annotations, etc) and...

For reference, here are links to previous SEC-as-XML file format discussions from CotI. Concerns in these threads should be addressed in any new file format proposal. UWP Changes (for T5) http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=5832 Highlights: * More discussion of file...

If screen (not print) resolution is sufficient for your needs, you can use: http://www.travellermap.com/post.htm You can upload a .SEC file and it will render a sector or subsector for you - as a bitmap image.

FYI, a sharp-eyed user of TravellerMap.com recently let me know that Spinward Marches 2519 (Rylanor 0109) was mis-named "Plannet" - in Supplement #3, SMC and RS it's "Pannet". This has apparently plagued the .SEC files floating around the 'net, possibly since the GEnie uploads. If you google...