Thread:Fandyllic/@comment-27075564-20170724155029/@comment-1077307-20170802200711

I've had to deal with a few other things for last day or so. I'll continue tonight or tomorrow.

Mechemik wrote: Very nice. So if I'm reading the earlier post right, would we only need one main map image for each main region and could then tell it to only show a certain section? Basically I would make it so you could have more choices to allow using existing or easily available images for maps with Wiki Map, so normal sites could use it more easily right out of the box. In WoW you had to provide a map to the wiki that was dead on accurate for matching the exact zone region for the coords in the wiki to match the game. That was your only choice.

Luckily the WoW game data happened to have game textures for maps for the UI that were exactly that. And there were people with the expertise at the time to extract them, load them correctly into WoWWiki in the correct way and knew the ramifications for how they would work with the region and other info boxes to make it all hum together.

What I would do is provide another path that can remove most of that work. You can take the closest image you have that's uploaded, and then say what section of that image is the zone with a few numbers. The rest would be automatic. This removes 90% of the technical depth requirement, and 90% of the process (number of steps) requirement. You could even use one image for several Map/File zones. Or you could even take a light brown image, draw a few roads and have a ready map, without any worry that the edges of your map start in the right place.

My original comment was toward being able to say that a certain zone image represents or begins and ends at x/y coords in the actual game. Like a non-wow game might use a 2000 x 2000 sized zone, and have all of the zones use different cords. When you have to place an image in the wiki you would need a way to tell Map/File that this image belongs to area starting at 8000/12000 to 10000/12000 which is "Shadow Land of Bananas and Darkness". When a user puts a marker via (probably unknowingly) a Creature infobox on a creature page, like "Shadow Banana", the Map/Note knows enough to put the marker in the right spot.

But then I eluded to what you are saying where if I that could be done, so could saying **which part of that image** belongs to that frame of reference for that zone. And then said that could lessen the actual burden on wow if there was a case where there was no game map image or they wanted a map about something else, or even a non-wow game.