Temporary Blank Maps?

[lordebon]

Originally Posted by jnils

You can't show group members without calculating a zonerect , and to do that you need to map the place. sorry.

Yes, and no, IMHO. While true that you do need to do some mapping to come up with a reasonable zonerect, even a crappy zonerect from running the zone once can be extrapolated out say 25% to provide a buffer. That should be all that is necessary for a blank map to be added.

With that said, for them to be done officially via the updater I think we would need a few more controls on them -- for example, sometimes might not want people submitting POIs to a zone with only a temporary blank map, especially if the zone were to be split up into individual regions later.

But if you can come up with reasonable /locs for the four boundary planes of the zone (ie the westernmost point, easternmost point, northernmost point, and southernmost point) then a reasonable zonerect could be calculated and then a buffer added. Then all you'd need is the zone's name and it would be relatively easy to add the blank parchment map. That's far less 'mapping' that would need to be done to have the actual walls etc. on the map and would be sufficient for getting a general idea of where people are.