Welcome!
The datafile towns xml is an awesome step by the GMs to give useful data about the game to their player base. However, the barrier to entry for such data was the ability to parse and handle said xml.
In an effort to democratize this data, I've created:
which parses this data and creates a nice interconnecting links.
There are a couple of other features, most notably the ability to find other towns near a given town with various other search parameters.
Still to come: parsing of the alliances xml files, creating an interconnected mapping of alliance relationships, and creating an actual usable map. The last item has actually been done, but not at an acceptable performance level.
To be quite honest we've had 90% of this stuff for a couple of months now, but what with my dwindling ability to actually play and the fact that these tools don't actually represent a massive competitive advantage, I figured I'd open the tool up to the general public.
Also, in the interests of openness and general community niceness, I've open sourced the entire project, which can be found here: http://github.com/benwilson512/illyriad GPL3 license
Current known bugs:
1) Certain pages display errors related to failed search queries, when no such queries have been posted.
Edited by Larry - 19 Aug 2010 at 19:46