birmail & map

[thrakkazz]

I looked at the tool but I'm not sure to understand what's the use of the map ?
Ok it displayes roads, castle, rivers, provinces and so on but is that usefull for DM only or for players as well ?
I mean some of those data are not public (eg ley lines) so I'm wondring if this is just a gadget for DM or is really usefull.

[rjurikwinds]

Well actually you can publish all of the information on that map to HTML (Can't remember what menu option it was)
- it shows warded provinces, roads, colors based on province ownership

So when running a game you can re-publish your html after each turn and make the map available by html (especially usefull if you have access to a website you can publish to...)

Here is an example from the last Rjurik Winds PBEM I ran:
http://rjurikwinds.com/web/map_6/index.html
=> the map s straight out of Birmail...
Birmail even makes the map clickable; and links you to the appropriate realm so that people/players can see the information

Again; all you need to do after you resolve the turn is to run the export to HTML

[Magian]

Alot of it has to do with DM options and leaving the choice up to them what they want to use or not.