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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 Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.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 Cartographer(v2) uses an outdated framework that will not be updated in the case of major breakages so Cartographer(v2) would require a complete rewrite.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 Oct 20, 2008
The newest Version of Carto 2 is absolutely stable and works fine. Pls keep Carto 2 in Developement

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
Not working 100% for me.
When enabled, I cannot zoom properly on map.
I can zoom out, but if I click on a new map area to zoom in, I always get the area in which my char is located - not the one I choose :(

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
Was this ever addressed I'm having the same problem...

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
Cartographer was one of my fave addons, Love the stuff ckknight does. Pity this one being dropped in favour of cartographer3 which is just too much overkill really.
Using mapster in the meantime but I miss cart2 with modules for quest/nodes etc :(

Got far more addon problems with this 3.0.2 build than any before. Errors all over and the fact wowace has gone means sourcing correct updates has got a whole lot more complicated.
Tried the Curse one, but it does not handle embedded? properly so using that made things even worse.

How did we manage to go from a relatively smooth update process with wowace to this (sorry hoster!) crap Curse setup.

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
seconded.... however cartographer 3 is still a no for me. If i want shiz like that i download google earth. There are things wich dont have to be fancy and crap to be awesome. Cartographer was one of them and im sad to hear that its getting replaced by some showoff addon wich has everything in its looks.

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
Try wowmatrix.... I found it better than the curse one

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
Is this like or better than Metamap?
Also, will this replace Atlas and Atlas Loot?

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
Those are completely separate addons from other authors, and most of those addons are dead.

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
not to sound picky or anything but could you update the whole cartographer collection please, i want to be able to see the mining and herbalism nodes again.

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
Here is a bit more interesting info about the icons issue....

I see this error in !swatter that say.
Cartographer_Icons\addon.lua:310: attempt to index global 'Cartographer_Notes' (a nil value)

looks similar

Cartographer_NoteTarget\\Cartographer_NoteTarget.lua:53: attempt to index global 'Cartographer_Notes' (a nil value)

And there is another interesting tidbit.
I toggle off and back on the icon packs (and the module it's self first) and 1 first icon in each pack shows up. but only 1. each.

thoughts?

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
to take away the blue dots just turn the *POI* off :P

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
How come when i download Cartographer, it doesnt appear in the character select screen, in the lower left corner in the "addons" button?

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
Anyone have luck getting the icon packs to work?

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
It is a shame to see this addon in the state that it is in now. One of my most used addons will now be disabled due to its clumsy interface and all around poor build quality. Bring back an updated version of the original I beg you.

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
Excellent, it's working great now! And to those who mention the blue dots -- delete your POI folders to clear them =)

Thanks for updating this, it's long been one of my favorite mods. I appreciate the hard work!

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Posted Oct 20, 2008
Amen!

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
I have the same problem as thegreeneyes7. I updated Cartographer and now everything works great except for the blue notes everywhere.

They are in almost every zone and for things like the villages, the instances, and other popular areas. I tried clearing these, but even when I click on the map again, they re-appear. I've tried deleting them individually, but same thing.

Anyone know why? or how to fix this?

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
is there a way to add the class colors and groups to the minimap player indicators?

like auramap http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/aura-map.aspx

auramap is not working in bgs, but cartographer works on the world map

plz plz plz add it

it will be a nice fearture

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
I can now use way points and map notes again! Thanks!

Bad news : I still have little blue dots all over my map. For example: A Ironforge mapnote in the middle of the Barrens. I go to remove all notes from the map and they all pop back up again when I click on the zone again :(

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Posted Oct 19, 2008
I love this mod! One issue I face is that the addon preference button overlaps the tracking button next to the minimap and no matter how hard I've tried, I couldn't gain access to the addon preference button. I tried the mouseover trick but no luck. Any suggestion?

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