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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 Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.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 Cartographer(v2) uses an outdated framework that will not be updated in the case of major breakages so Cartographer(v2) would require a complete rewrite.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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_ForgeUser386821
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Posted Dec 12, 2009
DON'T GO THERE IT IS A VIRUS!!!

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
correct all you have to do is disable objectives and it will work just dont press the arrow button ontop right corner next to x or it will bugg it...

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Oh my God I never realized how dependent I am on Cartographer. This half ass attempt on Blizzards part to update their map is making my life miserable. Please CK save us from this attempt to out do what only our peers are capable of creating.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
My version has been bugged since 3.3

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w132/imageshackisslow/Cartograph.png

Please do not try to convince me otherwise :)

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
how exactly is the addon broken...? it works just fine for me except for when i have a quest in the zone i'm in...i thought that was part of 3.3 of WoW, and that cartographer had to work around that (since it resizes the map to fit in the quest log and objective list)... other than that it's not a big deal. i'm just waiting for that resize problem to fix, if it even will be? even the foglight addon of cartographer would have to be updated too for that right?

is this version of cartographer going to keep being maintained or eventually we're all going to have to move to cartographer 3.0? o.O

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
For those who dont think the addon works in 3.3

1. Install Addon
2. open map
3. disable "show Quest objectives" down in right corner.
4. Enjoy :D

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Really weird thing happened for me today,after using C3 and hating it, I went and re-enabled the old C2 and now it works flawlessly. Dunno what happened but I'm one happy person now, Lol.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
So Cartagrapher is Dead forever? Anyone know a good addon that will let you see guildmates on the world map and change the map frame size? And to the authers, Thank you for a wonderful addon.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
We both know that Ace3 is better than Rock, we both have worked on Ace3 too (and Ace2 which Cartographer used originally). The problem is updating Cartographer to use something other than Rock, it would require almost the entire addon to be redone from scratch.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
If the only reason the authors have is letting it break because it uses LibRock. Wishes someone would update it then to use Ace3. And in complete honesty Cartographer should have been using Ace a while ago.
LibRock - last updated 1/30/09
Ace3 - last updated 12/08/09

Additional to this is that Ace is updated with every new patch. Active development to address patch issues. Looking at LibRock it was made and updated for only 2.4.3 / 3.0.2 / 3.0.8. While I do understand that ckknight and Arrowmaster worked on LibRock. They have to understand that sometimes other things will be better. And in this case Ace3 is far better in development than LibRock. This however does not mean Cartographer must stop. Just use the Ace3 libraries and work on updating Cartographer. Without worrying about having to update LibRock as well. Less things to manage.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
I mainly use Cartographer for instance maps, being able to make map notes and the multi-size capabilities for the map. I tried disabling the 3.3 features but ran into all other sorts of problems with the map frame.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Arrowmaster posted on the Curse Cartographer 2 comments area that Cartographer 2 was dead. He also recommended Mapster as the best alternative. The minor update 6 days ago - just before the 3.3 patch - seems to contradict his statement that C2 is dead, though.. I've asked Arrowmaster and C.K. to update the description of the addon itself if development and maintenance of Cartographer 2 has been halted. Hopefully one of the authors will update the description of the addon to let us know its true status.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
My cartograhper still works fine, if you just don't use any of 3.3 features everything works.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
How do you disable them?

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Very sad. The new built-in map is fail on so many levels: party member tracking is jittery, non-fullscreen version can't be moved, no instance maps, no information about instances or fishing in a zone, ... "we hates it!" Still, I know what it's like to hate your own coding project. GREAT JOB on Cartographer, we'll miss it. A lot.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Actually, the small world map can be moved. You have to go into the interface options under 'Objectives', and check the 'Movable World Map' option, and then you can right click the title bar of the non-fullscreen version of the map to get an option to unlock its position.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Please update this. I tried cartographer v3 and I would have to say that it was a complete piece of... I'll let you choose an unappropriate word. I loved this cartographer and was saddened to find out that it was replaced with that...thing? If the same authors are not going to work on this please give the current information to someone who will cause that other cartgrapher is just wrong.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Message: Interface\AddOns\Cartographer_Notes\Notes.lua:4182: Trying to iterate through notes in an unknown zone: "Halls of Reflection"
Time: 12/11/09 10:00:33
Count: 2
Stack: [C]: ?
[C]: in function `error'
Interface\AddOns\Cartographer_Notes\Notes.lua:3950: in function `IterateNearbyNotes'
Interface\AddOns\Cartographer_Notes\Notes.lua:4182: in function <Interface\AddOns\Cartographer_Notes\Notes.lua:4147>
Interface\AddOns\Cartographer_Notes\Notes.lua:4332: in function `object_method'
...tographer\libs\LibRockTimer-1.0\LibRockTimer-1.0.lua:289: in function <...tographer\libs\LibRockTimer-1.0\LibRockTimer-1.0.lua:227>

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
The reasons have been stated before. The framework library used is dead so when it finally breaks for good everything is over. The entire addon would have to be rewritten from scratch.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Who is gona build a reborn version ?
Looks like it is popular but the authors have reason why the don't continue. However it is totaly unclear why.

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