Continent names - that's a really neat idea! Should be easy enough to do. Do you have any idea how you want that to look?

And I've updated the first post now. Thanks for reminding me.

Alright. I look forward to seeing the finished map. =]

The full map has been online since yesterday. There are probably people who didn't want their houses mapped, and I apologise if this is you.

If you build any houses in the future and don't want them to be seen, place a sign with the word hideMe on it anywhere near your house. Can be underground or anything. Has to be all one word. It's not case sensitive. Doesn't matter what line you put it on or what else is on the sign. This will hide any blocks within a 24m radius from the sign. If you want to hide an area more than 48m across, you'll need multiple signs.

Please consider other people when doing this and don't place such signs inside towns.

hideMe signs wont leave a conspicuous gap in the map or anything - they just mean that the map will show the area as looking however it did in the last successful scan of that chunk.

The map looks awesome, and continent names would be sweet.
How would we go about naming them? Toast Town is really the only major settlement in that section of land.

How about server competitions? Win a contest and get a continent named after you.

Continent after you or you get to name it?

I tagged some of my stores

Well, whichever.

And yes, I found your stores

The full map has been online since yesterday. There are probably people who didn't want their houses mapped, and I apologise if this is you.

If you build any houses in the future and don't want them to be seen, place a sign with the word hideMe on it anywhere near your house. Can be underground or anything. Has to be all one word. It's not case sensitive. Doesn't matter what line you put it on or what else is on the sign. This will hide any blocks within a 24m radius from the sign. If you want to hide an area more than 48m across, you'll need multiple signs.

Please consider other people when doing this and don't place such signs inside towns.

hideMe signs wont leave a conspicuous gap in the map or anything - they just mean that the map will show the area as looking however it did in the last successful scan of that chunk.

Discharge

So if you have a house already on the carto you're fucked?

What about having a dialogue box appear to the side of the tag when you hover over it with the name and the link? This would allow you to keep their current click-able function and still provide a place for links.

To put it bluntly, yes you are.

I was considering just having different types of tag, like on google earth - so tags for labels, photos and hyperlinks.

To put it bluntly, yes you are.

Discharge

They could possibly craft a dirt blind over their location, let it get scanned, and then place the sign. That would be a pain to do however

I was considering just having different types of tag, like on google earth - so tags for labels, photos and hyperlinks.

Discharge

Sounds like a good solution to me.

sounds awesome to me now I will be able to get to places as soon as I figure out where I am that is...

you can type /getpos in chat to give you your current coordinates. Then just match it up with the map (it shows you the coordinates you're hovering over at the bottom)

UPDATES FTW!!!

By request, I have added a photo-tag option to the context menu (that's the thing that pops up when you right click btw).

It allows you to add your photos to the cartograph. Photos can either be externally sourced (just paste the url in the url box) or you can uploads straight from your pc with the upload button.

Picture tags will show up (when you are zoomed in) as a little orange circle. Click on the circle to view the image.


NB. Please do not upload 100GB videos files or other stupid Griefers using my applet or I will get cross. Photos are the only thing that work! kThx.


Note also that the location of the applet has changed slightly. Don't forget to update your bookmarks!

What do people want to see implemented next? Suggestions?

To be honest I'm running out of things that would be useful to a cartography applet... Maybe a field that we can punch coordinates into and it'll center on that point? Would be useful as the map becomes larger with time.

yeah I agree and I still cant find my house I don't know what co-ordinates the bottom bit is lol but could you add in a n XYZ to the co-ordinates bar?

The coordinates at the bottom are world X,Y,Z, just like what you get when you use /getpos. I'll make that more explicit.

I have an idea... We should make continents or regions. Maybe some regions could go to war with other regions when pvp comes out? Just a thought.

I was thinking it would be cool to have a war with tnt cannons, landmines, arrows, ect. That would be kinda fun.

Yea sample, But only in areas where people will be ok with losing buildings.

Yeah, we'd have it really far away of course.
We could have designated times for building shelters and whatnot, then fighting time.

sounds fun lol.but if we do that we'll have to make an easy way of accessing gunpowder sand shouldn't be that hard if the area is in a desert though although it might be ideal to have the sand "respawn" after a while.

Sounds kind of interesting...Maybe make another thread for it? Might want to do that before this gets too off-topic.

I'll start a new thread under suggestions.

Your gonna have to make a new cartograph for the new map. Just reminding you