diff -ur irpgsite.v0.5/config.php irpgsite.v0.5+johm+chschu/config.php
--- irpgsite.v0.5/config.php	Mon Jul 19 12:31:10 2004
+++ irpgsite.v0.5+johm+chschu/config.php	Mon Jul 19 21:37:44 2004
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 // character database
 $irpg_db="/home/jotun/irpg.db";
 
+// item database
+$irpg_itemdb="../mapitems.db";
+
 // time modifiers file
 $irpg_mod="/home/jotun/modifiers.txt";
 
@@ -35,5 +38,8 @@
 
 // length-wise dimension of your map file
 $mapy = 500;
+
+// size of crosses for players and items on world map
+$crosssize = 3;
 
 ?>
diff -ur irpgsite.v0.5/makeworldmap.php irpgsite.v0.5+johm+chschu/makeworldmap.php
--- irpgsite.v0.5/makeworldmap.php	Mon Jul 19 12:31:10 2004
+++ irpgsite.v0.5+johm+chschu/makeworldmap.php	Mon Jul 19 21:37:44 2004
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 <?
     include("config.php");
     $file = fopen($irpg_db,"r");
-    fgets($file);
+    fgets($file,1024);
+    $itemfile = fopen($irpg_itemdb,"r");
+    fgets($itemfile,1024);
 
     session_start(); // sessions to generate only one map / person / 20s
     if (isset($_SESSION['time']) && time()-$_SESSION['time'] < 20) {
@@ -14,11 +16,22 @@
     $magenta = ImageColorAllocate($map, 255, 0, 255);
     $blue = imageColorAllocate($map, 0, 128, 255);
     $red = imageColorAllocate($map, 211, 0, 0);
+    $orange = imageColorAllocate($map, 255, 128, 0);
+    $yellow = imageColorAllocate($map, 255, 192, 0);
     ImageColorTransparent($map, $magenta);
-    while ($line=fgets($file)) {
+    while ($line=fgets($file,1024)) {
         list(,,,,,,,,$online,,$x,$y) = explode("\t",trim($line));
-        if ($online == 1) imageFilledEllipse($map, $x, $y, 3, 3, $blue);
-        else imageFilledEllipse($map, $x, $y, 3, 3, $red);
+        if ($online == 1) $color = $blue;
+        else $color = $red;
+        imageLine($map, $x-$crosssize, $y, $x+$crosssize, $y, $color);
+        imageLine($map, $x, $y-$crosssize, $x, $y+$crosssize, $color);
+    }
+    while ($line=fgets($itemfile,1024)) {
+        list($x,$y,,$level) = explode("\t",trim($line));
+        if (is_numeric($level)) $color = $orange;
+        else $color = $yellow;
+        imageLine($map, $x-$crosssize, $y-$crosssize, $x+$crosssize, $y+$crosssize, $color);
+        imageLine($map, $x+$crosssize, $y-$crosssize, $x-$crosssize, $y+$crosssize, $color);
     }
     header("Content-type: image/png");
     imagePNG($map);
diff -ur irpgsite.v0.5/worldmap.php irpgsite.v0.5+johm+chschu/worldmap.php
--- irpgsite.v0.5/worldmap.php	Mon Jul 19 12:31:10 2004
+++ irpgsite.v0.5+johm+chschu/worldmap.php	Mon Jul 19 21:37:44 2004
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ?>
 
 <h1>World Map</h1>
-<p>[offline users are red, online users are blue]</p>
+<p>[offline users are red, online users are blue, normal items are orange, unique items are yellow]</p>
 
 
 <div id="map">
@@ -13,11 +13,18 @@
     <map id="world" name="world">
 <?
     $file = fopen($irpg_db,"r");
-    fgets($file);
-    while($location=fgets($file)) {
+    fgets($file,1024);
+    $itemfile = fopen($irpg_itemdb,"r");
+    fgets($itemfile,1024);
+    while($location=fgets($file,1024)) {
         list($who,,,,,,,,,,$x,$y) = explode("\t",trim($location));
-        print "        <area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"".$x.",".$y.",4\" alt=\"".htmlentities($who).
+        print "        <area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"".$x.",".$y.",".$crosssize."\" alt=\"".htmlentities($who).
               "\" href=\"playerview.php?player=".urlencode($who)."\" title=\"".htmlentities($who)."\" />\n";
+    }
+    while ($line=fgets($itemfile,1024)) {
+        list($x,$y,$type,$level) = explode("\t",trim($line));
+        print "        <area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"".$x.",".$y.",".$crosssize."\" alt=\"".htmlentities($type." [".$level."]").
+              "\" title=\"".htmlentities($type." [".$level."]")."\" />\n";
     }
     fclose($file);
 ?>