Re: Maps of teh FT universe

> http://www.netspace.net.au/~sneakin/expansion/expansion.html

Whose page is this? How did he or she make the map? Do they have the 
datafile of stars they used? What format is it in? Is such a datafile 
available? 

I'm looking to make my own map, and I'm trying to latch hold of 
accurate X,Y,Z coords (relative to earth) for the near (say 50ly) 
stars in Earth orbit, corrected to 2285 or 2300 for the sake of rough 
numbers. And maybe type and magnitude and mass data if it was 
available. Then I can fire up my old traveller world generation 
software (or the paper and pen version!) to generate the planets in 
those systems. And then campaigning becomes interesting....

I won't plague the list, but if the creator of the map wants to mail 
me personally, I'd be very interesting in getting access to the data. 

Tom. 

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