A 'map editor' for Forbidden Island. No database required

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A side project of mine just for fun.The island shape is fully determined by the URL; there's no database behind this. Compressing the islands into sharable URLs was quite a fun challenge.At the moment I just munge together each row into one long binary string, chop that into 6-bit chunks, and then convert each 6 bit chunk into a single letter chosen from a 64 character alphabet (because 111111=64).I added a header with a version number to the encoded island to allow me to change the format in the future without breaking existing URLs.In the future I'd like to generate a human-readable url so e.g. sunkenatlas.com/#evil-rocky-cove or /#perilous-sandy-archway would in a similar way be able to e

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