Automatically generating maps Vareck Bostrom 05 Apr 2024 18:40 UTC

I'm not sure of the best way to share images here, but for some time I'd been wanting to replicate the old-style Imperium maps via automatic generation, and I'm getting closer. The world data is downloaded from the travellermap API and world points are scaled by computed GDP for the world, in this case. There's still a lot of labeling missing, but it's getting closer:

https://1drv.ms/i/s!AhOy6SzueEkKktNLHPoa-BeGUcFYZA

The GDP computation is unofficial. I didn't use Resource Units because some of the RU data is very suspect, for example a world with a population of 20-29 has 15 RU, making it per capita tens of millions of times richer than Terra, so instead I use the RU factors as a sort of economic efficiency scaling factor. Still needs quite a bit of work, of course.