Re: [TML] Mapping software Bruce Johnson 14 Jul 2014 17:00 UTC

On Jul 13, 2014, at 10:36 PM, Charles McKnight <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for mapping software that generates Traveller-ish maps (hex, etc.). Right now the leading candidates seem to be:
> 	• Campaign Cartographer 3
> 	• Hexographer
>
> Does anyone have experience / recommendations with regard to either of the above (or other software that I haven't found yet)?
>
> Thanks in advance!

old old school, I have sub2ps which is a program that will produce nice postscript subsector maps in the LBB style from a text file.

<http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/tprogs.html>

It compiled (albet with some warnings, but it works) just now under OSX 10.9. Standard C. (you'll need to install XCode command-line tools.) should compile under linux or any win system with a c compiler, such as cygwin <https://www.cygwin.com/>

I needed to comment out the malloc.h bit and include stdio.h and (possibly stdlib.h) in the source for it to compile without error.

It's not mine, but written by a long, long-ago TML member.

Very nice indeed for the purpose. probably not what you're looking for, but thought I'd throw it out there...

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Bruce Johnson

"Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD