Cartographer

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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 Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.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 Cartographer(v2) uses an outdated framework that will not be updated in the case of major breakages so Cartographer(v2) would require a complete rewrite.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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Posted Feb 7, 2010
hi arrowmaster if you don't plan on keeping your program updated you need to remove the donate botton from this site. so people are not sending you money for something they are getting back in return. it is only fare.

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Posted Feb 7, 2010
The donate button is Ckknight's. I've never received anything from it. He is the primary author so I won't mess with it.

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Posted Feb 7, 2010
People still download it; people still use it.

If they want to donate for a useful but unsupported product, I say fine.

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Posted Feb 8, 2010
well then at least change the words.. "Support Cartographer development!" isnt right.. you should use "Give Ckknight money you dumb fuck for something that we are too lazy to fix for the new patches!" and then you could have the donate button and no one would ever comment on Ckknight getting money from something that you doesnt work with anymore. ^^

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Posted Apr 2, 2010
You really are a complete douchebag, aren't you? What addons have you written lately? What libraries have you helped code? Can you please show me to your profile here on Curse so I can see your list of addon contributions?

No?

Then STFU and say "Thank you, guys" and go flame somewhere else, troll.

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
Seems simple enough of a thing, for someone, as I, with no experience in the programming field; crassly put, how much $ would take to make you find the time and desire to update it? Those who aren't savy I'm sure could 'butter yer bread' as it were, we just need to know how much butter is needed to grease the wheels.

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
To replace the map feature try: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/mapster.aspx
To replace map notes try: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/handynotes.aspx
To have compatible guild positions try (with above): http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/handynotes_guild.aspx
To replace zone levels try: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/cromulent.aspx

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
As any Wow player should know at this point, addon programmers are strictly forbidden from charging for addon development. Anyone who even considered quitting their day job and provided a $ amount for "how much butter is needed" would have their account terminated and have a lawyer banging at their door before you could say "download".

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
@ Cartographer Developers

While I do understand that you wish to no longer update this mod. I have read a few pages here. And note many asking to take it over. And one even mentioning that no reply to his mail was ever given. If you aren't wishing to update it. Please be at least responsive to those who mail you asking to take it over. So it can continue. Otherwise and please forgive me for saying (as I may sound negative, my apologies). That refusing to hand this over to other developers who could at least help update it in full or in part seems like a ego struggle. Mods should be a community effort. You don't wish to do it ... fine. Let someone else take over. People are only making non-authorized fan updates and posting them on external sites. Because the authors here wont at least consider them to do so. So that it can be freely added to this site. Otherwise Curse would remove such fan update.

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
I no longer have an active WoW account and have been very busy lately with personal issues but I have replied to all the private messages I've received. As I've told people, if they actually know what they are doing, they are more than welcome to commit any changes directly to the SVN repository. Those that don't are better off just leaving it alone. For a bit of context to what I mean see http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=17685&page=2#15

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
Arrowmster,

Thank you for a great job in the past and for your generosity in allowing others to update your code today.

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
Ah I see. So kaerf and the others got a reply? Because as I see it there are many with experience beyond LUA. However they don't make mods. Even though they are more than qualified to do so. While I do understand some of those have little clue in that end. Additional to this if they DO know what they are doing a SVN repository is best when the initial authors are also existent within the project. That would be like telling John Carmack to only post changes to a author abandoned project in the SVN. When it could be simply handed over him to head the project. So hopefully for the semi qualified this is the path that you expect from them. However, if someone is qualified enough to take over Cartographer. I do hope you don't suggest SVN to them =)

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
If there was somebody qualified to completely takeover the project and they wanted to, they would still need to use a version control system of some type otherwise they wouldn't really be qualified to takeover such a large project. Also Cartographer is hosted on WoWAce which does not allow zip file uploads, all projects use one of the three VCS supported by WoWAce.

As far as people having experience 'beyond' Lua, I completely disagree. The majority of the Computer Science majors being churned out from colleges with just Java experience shouldn't be let anywhere near Cartographers code since they do not understand the WoW API or any of the extremely many little nuances
to it. Even many long time experienced C,C++,etc programmers would need a little while to develop some experience with the WoW API before they should feel comfortable with such a large project. You either have experience with Lua and WoW or you don't, there is no 'beyond'.

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Posted Feb 14, 2010
I do suggest anyone interested in fixing Cartographer reads the thread listed above, you will soon see the futility in making any effort whatsoever. The whole community surrounding this wonderful addon has lost interest, and will apparently do there best to dissuade anyone from trying to fix it. Seems to me whenever development of free software happens there is almost no concern and often even contempt for the end user. Couple that with arrogance and social inadequacy, well basically I say be happy with the free software you have while you have it, when its dead move on.

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
Does anyone know of an addon that displays the general levels of each area? That was what drew me to Cartographer. It's a shame it is abandoned, but that's life. Now I would like to just find a new one that gives me what I want.

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
Cromulent does.

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Posted Feb 5, 2010
Taking a look at the code to see if I can update it, itch:ing for something todo and Cartographer was my first addon to ever install back in the day, so it saddens me to see it's downfall, all thou Atlas is good, it's not as the Cartographer I remember.

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Posted Feb 5, 2010
that would be awesome. i just want to see instance maps in the world map frame. having to have 2 frames for maps is just irritating. grrrrrRRR

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Posted Feb 3, 2010
Why doesn't someone else just update the addon? There is nothing the author can do if someone does alter and post a fixed addon. I have enjoyed using this addon for some time, and I know that authors probably get tired of continually updating their addons.

I thank them for helping the WoW community, but now it seems that we need someone else to pick up where this author has decide to leave off.

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Posted Feb 2, 2010
Hey I have an idea!!!! Instead of going ballistic on people for thinking that the addon is busted why not... I don't know... UPDATE IT. I am having many problems with Cartographer because it is not updated. Also if you don't want to work on it anymore make it open source so that people that care will update it.

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