Cartographer

CARTOGRAPHER IS OUT OF DATE ON WOWMATRIX. ZONE INFO IS FIXED IN MOST RECENT VERSION ON CURSE.

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).

There is a new "experimental" version of Cartographer, called Cartographer3, at http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/12701/

If you are experiencing any issues

You play on a mac and the addon doesn't show up in-game This problem is generally being caused by unzippers on macintosh. You are supposed to put all folders inside the zip directly into your addon folder, not in a cartographer-vx.y.z subfolder! So if your paths are [...]/Interface/Addons/Cartographer and [...]/Interface/Addons/Cartographer_"modulename", it should work as expected :D.

Death Knights and Phased Content, Arrow not showing While you are in the starting area the content is instanced and you are, in fact, not in the "real" world of Azeroth. Once you go visit Stormwind / Orgrimmar as final part of the questline the arrow should work again as expected.

If you are having issues related to POI's (the blue dots) please back-up and delete or rename your WTF folder (or just the cartographer 'account' database, WTF\Account\"username"\SavedVariables\Cartographer.lua)

Is the addon showing up as "Out of Date" and you're using Windows Vista?

The addon directory seems to have been moved for people on Vista. Apparently it's in "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft". If you update plugins in the old directory, it just plain won't notice! At all! And you'll get errors. Update it in the new location.

(explanation courtesy of QuestHelper addon)

Read the whole story here How-To: Trouble-Shoot AddOns under Vista

Bug reporting

Please disable all other addons except those included in this package, then test the issue. If the issue persists, please post on the bug tracker:

http://www.wowace.com/projects/cartographer/tickets/

We welcome your feedback!

Please do not post long bug reports in the comments below, use the bug tracker.

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- #77
sb1972 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:28:59
Hi i have these bug: [2009/04/26 23:23:31-68-x1]: Cartographer-r2322\Cartographer_Notes\Notes.lua:3635: attempt to concatenate a nil value

[2009/04/26 23:27:33-68-x1]: Cartographer-r2322\Cartographer_Notes\Notes.lua:3635: attempt to concatenate a nil value Cartographer_QuestInfo-3.0.9.1\Map.lua:212: in function `ClearQuestNotes' Cartographer_QuestInfo-3.0.9.1\QuestLogPatch.lua:92: in function `OnButtonClick' <string>:"*:OnClick":1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>

Asks the help to look, thanks.
- #75
TBABlackPanther Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:37:10
Hi i have these bug: [2009/04/26 00:27:56-1567-x1]: Cartographer_Notes-2.0\Notes.lua:3635: attempt to concatenate a nil value

[2009/04/26 00:33:35-1567-x1]: Cartographer_Notes-2.0\Notes.lua:3636: bad argument #1 to 'rawget' (table expected, got nil)

I use the newest release of this addon
- #74
Reeina Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:50:51
First of all thanks for this extremely helpful addon and for updating it for 3.1. There is however one issue that I have with the latest version: While I have Cartographer installed and active, I cannot see the Wintergrasp map.
- #73
shuemue Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:23:23
Since updating for 3.1, when I am viewing the map and wish to browse other zones by right-clicking to go 'up' and view an entire region, I'm unable to. The map flashes a brief flicker of the next level of the map, but instantly pings back down to the current area. I'm also unable to use the drop down menu to control the zone map.
- #72
Grilor Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:12:18
error since the last update:

Error: attempt to call global 'MapUnit_IsInactive' (a nil value) AddOn: Cartographer_GroupColors File: GroupColors.lua Line: 170 Count: Infinite
- #71
cr9c1 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:58:03
I had the astrolabe error as well. Took care of that, but now I can't see the zone info when I hover over a zone. :( Don't know if its a bug or what, but I've reset my UI and reinstalled with the updated carto and still don't have zone info.
- #70
Shadowjade Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:48:13
Getting the error: Cannot find a library with name 'Astrolabe-0.4'
- #69
laincat Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:26:52
ACE3?
- #68
siderisanon Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:20:37
Lately my world map has been covered up in areas i havent explored. I thought this addon was suppossed to stop that. Im not a tard and have reinstalled, logged out logged back in etc etc
You can choose how the unexplored areas appear under "Foglight". If you disable it, the coloring disappears.
- #67
siderisanon Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:40:45
I am having a problem where I cannot create notes in Cartographer 2.4.1 in Northrend. I do not know if this problem previously occurred because I only recently got Lich King and had access to Northrend. I also cannot create notes in the DK starting area. Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, and Outland maps work fine.
According to wowace, Cartographer 2.4.1 is March 19, 2009, so it is current.
Anyone have any clues or suggestions?
Update: The r2307 posted just today has fixed this problem for me. Thank you.