Roles and data

Roles

Role	Who	Can
Player	Everyone	Add places, streetview points, pictures and reviews, and edit or delete their own. Additions wait for review
Moderator	Names on the moderator list	Everything a player can, plus review the queue and edit anyone's places. Their own additions skip the queue. They also manage towns and streets
Operator	Operator level 2 or higher	Everything a moderator can, plus manage territories, rebuild the map and change its render settings
Owner	Operator level 3 or higher	Everything an operator can, plus manage the tag list and the moderator list

The server's op list decides who is an operator, so /op and /deop are the way to change it. The website checks the list every few seconds.

The moderator list

The list is in <server root>/vectorpoint/moderators.json:

{
  "moderators": ["SomePlayer", "AnotherPlayer"]
}

Names match regardless of capitalisation. The list stores names rather than UUIDs, so a player who changes their name loses the role until the list is updated.

/vp map moderator add <name> saves the file and applies the change immediately. If you edit the file by hand, run /vp map moderator reload afterwards.

Where files live

The mods keep installation data separate from world data. Installation data is about people: accounts and roles. World data is what appears on that world's map. Replacing a world therefore leaves everyone's password and role alone.

Installation

<server root>/vectorpoint/
  accounts.json     map accounts, one per player UUID, with hashed passwords
  moderators.json   the moderator list
  sessions.json     who is signed in to the map

World

<world>/pixelmaps/
  tiles/                     the rendered map
  data/marks.json            places
  data/streetviews.json      streetview points
  data/tags.json             the tag list
  data/photos.json           pictures of places
  data/reviews.json          reviews
  data/areas.json            territories, towns and streets
  data/missed-regions.json   regions still waiting to be drawn
  images/                    uploaded pictures
  streetviews/               captured panoramas
  colors.json                your block colour overrides
  colors.unresolved.json     blocks that got no colour

Backups

A world backup does not include accounts or moderators. Back up <server root>/vectorpoint/ as well.

Editing files by hand

Pixel Maps works from the copy of this data it holds in memory and writes changes to disk. After you edit a file under data/, run /vp map reload. Otherwise the next change made in game or on the website overwrites your edit.

Each file is written to a temporary copy and then moved into place, so a crash cannot leave a half-written file.