Cartographer
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 Cartographer(v2) uses an outdated framework that will not be updated in the case of major breakages so Cartographer(v2) would require a complete rewrite.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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Posted Dec 18, 2009kazso, your recommendation is excellent! It is the only combination that has worked for me. ty!!!
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Posted Dec 18, 2009I would recommend Mapster, TomTom (waypoints), HandyNotes and Broker Recommended Zone (zone info) for those who want to replace Cartographer. With these addons you will have similar funcionalities as Cartographer.
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Posted Dec 18, 2009Greetings
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Posted Dec 17, 2009I tried years ago, and to me, there's nothing that can compare to Cartographer.
Somebody mentioned HandyNotes, which I went through and I can live with. That coupled with MapNotes so that I can add my own manually. I'll stick with those for now, but if ever somebody picks up the flag and leads new versions of Cartographer, I'll always come back for it.
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Posted Dec 17, 2009I have updated the latest version of Cartographer (r2331) from wowace for 3.3.
It can be downloaded on this link.
http://uploaded.to/file/4rko4g
Cartographer and all included plugins also indicated no longer as outdated version and all libs are on the newest version.
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Posted Dec 17, 2009Like everyone else, Cart's been a great tool for me and I still like it better than Blizz's new interface. But I can understand the developer's side with all the work that's put into developing and maintaining add ons like this one - even though they're not allowed to charge us for it, it sucks having to do all that for "free". there might a chance that some donations might re-inspire this dynamic duo to update =) just a thought
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Posted Dec 17, 2009Farewell...
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Posted Dec 17, 2009I'm in a bit of a library update myself with Reagent Restocker, so yeah, I can relate to the amount of time it takes to do something like that.
If we can find somebody else to help carry the torch and perhaps update it to newer libraries, that would be great. Can't really do it myself, as I have my own project to worry about.
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Posted Dec 16, 2009Like Ydrisselle said, I think the best is to switch to Mapster. Maintaining Cartographer in it's current state is a nightmare.
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Posted Dec 16, 2009I've had a look at Mapster, and I can only recommend to switch to it. It has map scaling, coordinates, revealing of undiscovered areas and some more things. For waypoints, you can use TomTom together with Mapster.
Sorry for getting the hopes up, but this seems like a lot more work than I initially thought, and to be honest I'm not willing to do all this work.
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Posted Dec 16, 2009Tried r2331: cart is still locking up and visually breaking up (buttons off the top, map out of proportion, etc) when I try to revert it to "normal" size (normal for me is something like 2/3 of the screen? I don't know if that is default). This is with bliz's new screwed up map-based quest tracking turned OFF. I do not like the map based quest objectives tracking, I have questguru and cartographer for that (I like questguru's tracker, and I use cart for waypoints).
Strangely, it didn't actually break on me until earlier today, until then it seemed to work ok once I disabled the map objectives tracking, but today it just siezed up and nothing seems to shake it.
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Posted Dec 16, 2009cyberian, officially the development has been halted. I've made a small update but I'm not an author (and have no intention of being one), so it's still 'dead'.
Yahweh, what exactly doesn't work? The only problem I had was the map not properly rescaling when I enabled the quest tracking. The update should fix it, I have no problems with it.
thedarkeritgets, indeed the code is huge. Way too huge for what it's doing, I believe.
EDIT Ok I've found some bugs with it (only tested it briefly). On logon, the scaling won't be working. When switching zones it won't work either. In cities the scaling seems to be wrong. For now just disable and re-enable objective tracking when you enter a new zone and you should be fine.