OK, more than a few people have asked about the maps I've made, and would I be willing to make a map for them.
Short Answer: Maybe.
Medium Answer: I can, but there might be a delay.
Long Answer: Yes, I can make you a map. However, if you want me to make multiple maps for your Alt-U or current gaming group campaign, that would be a lot more difficult. However, there may be a work around to that, with a huge caveat.
Now, I have the base maps premade for 3025 and 3050, including order of battle. If there are era specific maps online, I can download those, but if your looking for something unique I need a drawing. And not a GIF or JPEG, but a .png or .svg file. Illustrator files work as well.
With regards to House OOB's, I have the 3025 and 3050 ones. If your looking at moving a few pieces around, i just need the unit name and what planet you are moving it too. If your creating a whole bunch of units, or moving a lot of them around from their canon locations, then at a minimum I need an excel or odf file with the name of the unit, and planet they are on.
As an example, my units file has these headers:
Unit
Skill
Faction
Damage
Merc
Display
Location
X
Y
Yours can be more or less detailed, but if it doesn't have the unit name and Location, I can't do anything with it.
For an example of what sort of map you'd be getting, take a look at the attached.
Now, I use a program called ARCGis. It's what I do for a living, and manipulating simple shapefiles like these are pretty easy. However, it can be time consuming, so if your looking at doing multiple maps, here's where the huge caveat comes in:
If you can get a copy of ARC, and make sure it's 10.1 or higher, I am more than willing to create the base database for your maps and am willing to show you how to make changes and export the results. It's not that hard. However, ARC is pretty expensive. ESRI used to give away trial discs, but I don't think they do that anymore. If your willing to wait a week or two for a map, that's cool, chances are I can get it to you before then, but life happens. Frankly there are days I come home and never want to work with another shapefile until I've had a scotch are three. Then the results are...interesting....
Anyhow, if that's a time table you can't work with, there is a freeware GIS program called QGIS. The latest stable was just released at qgis.org. I think it's a pretty cool program, but it's also very different than ARC, and not in a Mac vs PC type of different IMO, more like an AutoCAD versus Microstiaton difference. I have next to no experience with it. I've played around with it, and I do know that the maps I make in ARC I can't make the same way in QGIS. But I could make a good map in QGIS if I needed to, it would just take me a lot longer to do. However, QGIS does have a robust online community, help forums, and more than a few youtube help video's out there, so if your willing to tackle a basic map, I am more than happy to provide the shapefiles.
So, got an Alt-U you want a map for? Want an era map to print out and put on your wall? PM me and we'll see what we can do.
Dav