Hmmm, a transport network you say?
Why, this seems like the sort of project I could get behind!
You could learn minecarts!
I guess what we need really, more than a transport network as such (cos we have the warps for that) is signposts/paths through stuff for when people just want to have a look around at all the cool stuff people have made.
I might see how my 3G connection actually handles it at some point soon, but even if I do and it works ok, I wont be on for long since I have a huge queue of things to do for at least the next ten days. :(
A transport network can include signposts and paths?
As an out-of-game thing, someone could create an imagemap for the png map, and make it display a preview (i.e. the images you linked to earlier in thread) when you roll over the appropriate area.
I wonder if there's a way to export an overhead view, which could then be used for some kind of Google-Maps-powered ... map.
We're too busy MAKING STUFF unlike SOME PEOPLE.
And yeah, a transport network can include those things but what I was getting at was that transport will not be its primary purpose (we've got that covered), it will be more of a tour-network.
Cartograph can definitely do a square, overhead map. Dunno about the plugin Kos is using but I'd be surprised if it can't.
I will build Teh Tourist Lineā¢, a rail network with stops to all the sights of Teh Mine.