Good online squaregrid tools

[true_shinken]

I'm DMing a pbp in this forums, but I don't know of good ways to provide editable maps to my party. Is there any online application for this somewhere?

[The-Mage-King]

Actually, I'm using google docs spreadsheet for my campaign- viewable by players, quick to set up, easy to edit... the reasons go on.

[Claudius Maximus]

Similarly to The-Mage-King, I'm using editgrid.com. I wasn't aware google docs had a similar spreadsheet function, so I can't really say which is better for this purpose.

[Elvenoutrider]

I am a personal fan of maptools. its free to download, easy to make new tokens for using tokentools and the videos in the tutorial section do a good job of explaining how to use it. it also can be converted to hexes easily if in the future you decide to try a new system

[true_shinken]

I am a personal fan of maptools. its free to download, easy to make new tokens for using tokentools and the videos in the tutorial section do a good job of explaining how to use it. system

but can I share the maps online? can my players edit the maps themselves without having to download a program?

[Ernir]

I'm using Google Docs as well.

EDIT: Here's an example of a current grid. The PCs (red) were ambushed by Carvers (Blue) and a few Quill Beasts (also blue). The grey stuff is the road they were following, the yellowish stuff is a "waypoint" (an in-game term), the rest are trees.

[Ajadea]

How do you make that? I've used tables the three times I had to conduct a fight, but that's a pain.

[Keld Denar]

I've just been using Excel. Once you get it updated, do a Print Screen, open Paint, paste, crop to taste, save as a .jpg or .bmp, then upload to www.tinypic.com. You don't even have to register to tinypic, just fill out the little captcha thingy. It even does the forum code for you. Just past into a window, spoilered as desired, and you are good to go. Here's a couple of my recent maps:

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[Ernir]

How do you make that? I've used tables the three times I had to conduct a fight, but that's a pain.

I don't use much of the features except for...

• Mass Column/Row resizing
• Background/text coloring
• Borders
• Cell merging
• Text resizing

Then it's just posting the link. Which, thank god, doesn't change except when you create a new map.

The interface is a bit clunky, but it's the best online table host I've found. =/

I've just been using Excel. Once you get it updated, do a Print Screen, open Paint, paste, crop to taste, save as a .jpg or .bmp, then upload to www.tinypic.com. You don't even have to register to tinypic, just fill out the little captcha thingy. It even does the forum code for you. Just past into a window, spoilered as desired, and you are good to go. Here's a couple of my recent maps:

That's what I used to do (except I used Photobucket most of the time, the Tinypic captcha gets old, IMO). It's just that after re-uploading a map for the hundredth time just to move one kobold from square F7 to L7 was starting to kind of drive me nuts. Offline spreadsheets/drawing programs are much easier to work with, but damn, all those individual uploads...

I was considering hosting the thing on my own server space, but that would still require me to do the whole save -> create new link thing every time.