Looks like a modified GEnie format:

https://travellermap.com/doc/fileformats

Shouldn’t be hard to transform them.

I have some info on my (currently zipped up and not online) web site in connection with generating a nice postscript version of the original published GDW maps, but I haven’t looked at it in ages, let alone modified into something that might be usable. IIRC the program I wrote to translate them was written in whatever version of BASIC came with MS-DOS in the early 90’s, which was not coincidentally to the last time I had an machine running an MS OS on it on my desk. :-/

> On Nov 8, 2023, at 5:49 PM, Charles McKnight - chuckmcknight at pheonic.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> Hi Jim,
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> Here is the first few lines of the file. The format looks familiar though…
>
> Mendan
> A : Zuugabish
> B : Gainla
> C : Armi
> D : Mendan
> E : Bammesuka
> F : Kupid
> G : Udinidir
> H : Tozus Ganok
> I : Sarkan
> J : Lumda
> K : Valosak
> L : Kaasam
> M : Ikdalon
> N : Lasla
> O : Maidza
> P : Naem
>  1-18: Name
> 20-23: HexNbr
> 25-33: UWP
>    36: Bases
> 38-52: Codes & Comments
>    54: Zone
> 57-59: PBG
> 61-62: Allegiance
> 64-80: Stellar Data
>
> .....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
> Dakinkhig          0107 C568502-8    Ag Ni              504 Va G0 VI M3 D
> Aminkaa            0110 E244247-6    Lo Ni              333 Na M8 VI M3 D
> Ilarba             0111 D868747-1    Ag Ri              302 Na F5 V M9 D
> Fourroek           0113 X646254-3    Lo Ni           R  103 Va F7 D
> Gukham             0121 C785412-8    Ni C0              303 Va F4 V
> Kengighon          0122 C30078B-9  C Na Va           R  921 Va A1 V K7 D
>
>> On Nov 8, 2023, at 6:34 PM, Jim Vassilakos - jim.vassilakos at gmail.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>> There were once some old sector mapping utilities here: https://www.republicofnewhome.org/lair/games/traveller/trav5.html#TOC5
>>
>> But the links appear to be rotten. Sorry, can't help on this, but like Jeff said, flat text is easily massaged if you can decipher it.
>>
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