Clint --
Getting the map as a .gif file would be fine. That does not give away a lot of information, i.e. you don't get enemy nations' economic data, character info, and so on, but it would let you "see" the whole world, which will give you a good picture of what was left out there in terms of pop centers, and the location (if not the number and size) of enemy icons, and so on. Whether as a loser or a winner, I have always been a little disappointed in many games that I did not get to see where that last MT I was looking for actually was, or just how large various nations were, and so on. It would sort of be the pop centers equivalent of the nation VP and highest ranking character standings, but it would look a lot nicer printed out and stored with those final turns... 
One complication I do see is whether you load xml files for nations that have been out for a while (no longer processing turns) but which still have the odd pop center or three. Do those nations get pdf and xml files generated for them anyway, that just don't get used because they are inactive? Or would the program just ignore nations that had been out for a while? That would not be that much of a problem, as even if they are not getting xml files loaded, any such nation which had pop centers that show up on someone else's pdf file would at least get loaded as pop centers with unknown ownership.
Dave --
Note, if you copy all your team's xml files for a new turn into one folder, and then select that folder to load from, the Palantir program loads all the xml files at once -- you do not actually need to load each xml file separately! It may take a little time to put all the xml files in that folder, depending on how you get them initially, but it is definitely faster to do that and then just load Palantir once. Of course that may mean you wait a few days before loading Palantir, until you have all the xml files in hand, but I found that the tradeoff in not having to load file after file individually was worth the wait.
-- Ernie III
In a message dated 2/9/2005 12:15:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, enafos@aol.com writes:
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I can see this being very nice for the players to have an final picture, but wouldn't this be alot of work for ME, especially if its a long game.
It can take ages to import all those xml's, just for one side.
Dave Pearson
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