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CARTOGRAPHER IS OUT OF DATE ON WOWMATRIX.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Is the addon showing up as "Out of Date" and you're using Windows Vista?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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- #23
NykSpree8 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:25:08
i'm downloading the latest version but when i go to my map, i still get the default map. Am i missing some kind of library to get cartographer to work, or what? I don't get it. I really prefer 2.0 over 3.0 b/c 3.0 still needs a lot of work, but it's going to be bad ass when it's all good and ready, but right now it's far from being good and ready to use.
edit: NEVERMIND, i'm a noob and forgot to enable all the other plugins for it :) but yeah, newest versions are working.
- #22
Moncai Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:52:31
What Pravnicka said, only go to http://www.wowace.com/projects/cartographer/files/ and pick the latest revision :)
We continue to support the addon, but we are unable to make a new "release" so please download the alpha versions untill then.
- #21
Pravnicka Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:24:20
IT WORKS!!!
Go to: http://www.wowace.com/projects/cartographer/files/2457-r2261/
Then click "Download" found underneath "Download from Curse" - THE "Download from Curse" VERSION MOST ASSUREDLY DOES NOT WORK.
However, you won't see the "Download" option unless you have an account and are signed in.
- #20
Jordan0301 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:27:32
r2261 you can't zoom in or out
- #19
inesminha Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:43:15
the waypoints dont appear... error: libguild-3.0 missing (or something like that) - when i disable it! can u help me???
- #18
Moncai Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:24:33
Latest revision r2261 seems to work ok, please try it out and post any errors here.
Update: InstanceNotes seems still bugged (no error yet non-functional), otherwise runs nicely again.
- #17
nebae Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:13:48
I have enjoyed the benefits Cartographer has provided me from the first moment I installed it. If you decide to end it's development, I can surely understand, though I do hope you'll keep it going!
- #16
trillex Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:38:51
Zoom still doesn't work for me. :/
- #15
F1n Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:25:38
Thanks a lot for fixing the zoom.
- #14
Studdly1 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:33:31
Reasoning behind stopping programming of this addon ?