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elfsFairy came to me last night. She's Muse's geekier sister, and she says to me, "So, here's the plan. First, we troll through Google Maps for the right scale at which to render cities and terrain for a tactical wargame like Ogre or Crimson Fields or something like that. You capture that information and render the hex map over them. Viola! 22nd Century Battle for Seattle."
Blearily, I look at her and say, "And the other?"
"Once you've isolated the map tiles, you can cut them out into hexes algorithmically, arrange them in sheets, and rebuild the tiles into squares-with-hexes on transparencies. Using a combination of viewport and CSS sprite technologies, you could build entire maps, with scrolling and zooming."
"Go back to bed, Fairy."
Blearily, I look at her and say, "And the other?"
"Once you've isolated the map tiles, you can cut them out into hexes algorithmically, arrange them in sheets, and rebuild the tiles into squares-with-hexes on transparencies. Using a combination of viewport and CSS sprite technologies, you could build entire maps, with scrolling and zooming."
"Go back to bed, Fairy."
