Carotio: thanks with your tip I was able to extract a lot of information from Campaign_LOC.mis as well as Campaign_NMS.mis
But I still don't know where I can find information about the
faction / side that controls a location? Anybody knows which file defines this? Or do I have to derive this from other information in the campaign data?
For thoise who are interested, I have taken up work on map generation for SHIV, here is a small preview:

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