Preparing a map

Of course, I will need a map, so I played with python today to convert a familiar map piece to an array of water/land tiles.

For visualisation and checking this was printed to a simple text file as ASCII chars.

In the past days I was thinking about an acceptable compression method that is both efficient and fast enough.

I think I've found the ideal method, but I need to test it first. This will be the topic of the next post :)