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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

CARTOGRAPHER HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR 3.3!!!

DO NOT CREATE BUG REPORTS SAYING IT IS BROKEN!

There are no plans to do any major bug fixes for Cartographer (v2 or v3). If there is an update it will only be a minor fix. (It has already been this way since at least 2008.) Cartographer(v2) uses an outdated framework that will not be updated in the case of major breakages so Cartographer(v2) would require a complete rewrite. Neither of the two main developers (Ckknight and Arrowmaster) have the time nor desire to do this currently. Occasionally a new version might be released to include fixes made by other developers or new versions of embedded libraries.

Cartographer is a modular, lightweight, and efficient framework for manipulation of the world map. It is based on Rock and other libraries of the WoWAce community.

Battlegrounds : allows viewing of battlegrounds outside of the zone.
Coordinates : adds coordinates to the bottom of the world map of the player and the cursor.
Foglight : Shows unexplored areas on the map. replacement for MozzFullWorldMap or Unexplorer. Much more efficient, though.
Group Colors : turns all your party's and your raid's POIs into circles colored based on class, and shows a number on them based on their raid group.
Instance Maps : shows maps of instances.
Instance Notes : adds boss notes and such to instance maps.
Look 'n' Feel : allows you to change the transparency, position, and scale of the world map.
Notes : lets you put notes on the map, similar to MapNotes.
Zone Info : on hovering over a zone, it will show the levels of the zone, the instances in the zone, their levels, and the group size the instance is made for (e.g. 5-man, 40-man).

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_ForgeUser1790372
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Posted Dec 11, 2009
The library has been dead for around 11 months now. I would think a year was a good enough time for Cartographer to swap to another library. Especially Ace3.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
My question would then be if Cartographer is totally dead. Then why was there an update to it just 6 days ago over on wowace? I understand that the "framework" library is dead (probably because of blizzard) which was probably Ace2, but since you do have a working model with 2.5 it wouldn't be entirely from scratch. But then again it's up to the authors to do anything with it and since they don't want to it seems it's not going to be done. So however many users it is myself included will just have to find something else, which will probably be a long time in coming since no other Map Addon has been able to replace Cartographer 2.XX yet, and that includes Cart 3 which is probably Dead also since it hasn't been updated since August and that was only because of the change in 3.2 from GetDifficultyColor => GetQuestDifficultyColor.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
There have been several comments posted by the authors over the last year. If one of you could just update the addon description with these tidbits of information - and say that no further development will occur - then people wouldn't have to search through pages of comments for a definitive answer.

PLEASE.

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Posted Dec 12, 2009
That was an "alpha" update by me to fix two (load on demand) issues with it in WoW 3.2. Not WoW 3.3. It wasn't anything more and I'm not an author of Cartographer. Cartographer appears to be dead.

Switch to Mapster + HandyNotes for notes (& various HandyNotes modules). Both functioning in/updated for WoW 3.3 without problems.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
If you want to use the new quest tracker with Cartographer, I have found that if you do not load the Cartographer [Look 'n' Feel] module, the major problems go away. What remains is button overlap at the top of the screen. I also turn off the cursor position as it will overwrite on the screen when you hit the little left-down arrow.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
i woudl like to know same as Willi 2

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
try TomTom, that's what I'm using for waypoints and it works just fine.

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
I just want to use the waypoints again... the only reason I had cartographer.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
I am having a waypoint problem too but I think it is connected to the cartographer_poi which i don't believe is being updated. Is there anyway to import my poi icons into tomtom?

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
no it has not

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
looks like the majority of Cartographer has been implimented in the main map functions anyway.

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
Would love an update! Cause... I cant use it.

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
Many errors since 3.3
Please, make an update, many people are using this addon.

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
Seems like they are working on an Update. Please release it!

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
crosses fingers, legs, all body parts! hopes for update.

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
Is anybody planning on working an update for Cartographer after the new patch that bliz changed the map? I'm not able to create map notes anymore. I mean still able to bring up the option as if I'm going to, but nothing will happen when I click to create a note.

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
this may help some of you:

http://www.wowace.com/addons/cartographer/files/

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Posted Dec 12, 2009
As posted above:

The latest revision there was an "alpha" update by me to fix two (load on demand) issues with it in WoW 3.2. Not WoW 3.3. It wasn't anything more and I'm not an author of Cartographer. Cartographer appears to be dead.

Switch to Mapster + HandyNotes for notes (& various HandyNotes modules). Both functioning in/updated for WoW 3.3 without problems.

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
update this to 3.3.0 plz plz plz

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
Is it possible for this to be updated so that it's compatible with the new default quest tracking system? I really really hope so, because I can't live without Cartographer, but I'd really like to be able to drop QuestHelper and switch to the new default system.

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