{"id":1591,"date":"2023-01-05T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T01:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2023-01-05T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T01:40:22","slug":"alex-schroeders-gridmapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/alex-schroeders-gridmapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Schroeder’s gridmapper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/alexschroeder.ch\/wiki\/Gridmapper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is excellent – so you can create a map by typing, or by code, or via the interface – and save and download in multiple formats. Thanks very much Alex!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/alexschroeder.ch\/wiki\/Gridmapper This is excellent – so you can create a map by typing, or by code, or via the interface – and save and download in multiple formats. Thanks very much Alex!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[217,3],"tags":[422,420,318,421,398,26,132],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paET2V-pF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/mokuy-australia-hex-mapping-hex-describe-and-hex-mapper\/","url_meta":{"origin":1591,"position":0},"title":"Mokuy – Australia hex mapping, Hex Describe and Hex Mapper","author":"richard","date":"February 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Alex Schroeder has an 'Alpine' hex map generation option in https:\/\/campaignwiki.org\/hex-describe\/ . 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