So, I've looked all over the Lorebook...

[Kiryan42]

...and can't for the life of me find a link to this new interactive map. I've seen people post in the feedback forum about it, see the link to the pic of it, but can't find the actual thing; can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, or where I might find it?

Thanks

[DarquePervert]

This one? http://dynmap.ruslotro.com

[Duwis]

...and can't for the life of me find a link to this new interactive map. I've seen people post in the feedback forum about it, see the link to the pic of it, but can't find the actual thing; can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, or where I might find it?

Thanks

You can find it at http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Special:Interactivemap, also as an item under the "Game Info" menu, near the bottom after "Creatures >>>".

[tanis0]

You can find it at http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Special:Interactivemap, ....

Grats. You've managed to get Firefox to stop responding. I highlighted the Shire, scrolled over to it, zoomed in, set filters for monsters and vendors, hit submit, then it came up with a bunch of icons with the map still zoomed out but centered on the Shire. Then firefox immediately stopped responding. Task manager showed one of my cores working on it at full bore, but nothing happened for about 30 seconds until I killed the process.

[Duwis]

Grats. You've managed to get Firefox to stop responding. I highlighted the Shire, scrolled over to it, zoomed in, set filters for monsters and vendors, hit submit, then it came up with a bunch of icons with the map still zoomed out but centered on the Shire. Then firefox immediately stopped responding. Task manager showed one of my cores working on it at full bore, but nothing happened for about 30 seconds until I killed the process.

Yeah, the "monsters" filter is a very heavy JS result; lots o' monsters and their spawn points being returned. We've toyed with the idea of forcing you to enter something into the text field filter to narrow the results down when "monsters" is checked. Either that or working in pagination overall to the results returned.

Both have their UI issues, so we're exploring which will work best or if we can find a third alternative.

[Rrys]

IE 7 on Vista 64 Ultimate working fine! And I like that map!

[dorkchops]

IE7 and 8 are able to crunch this map haha stupid firefox...

[Kiryan42]

You can find it at http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Special:Interactivemap, also as an item under the "Game Info" menu, near the bottom after "Creatures >>>".

Thanks Duwis; guess I wasn't looking in the right spot heh.

[Banaticus]

You can force a Google Map to return no more than a set max ceiling on results for a specific area. This is typically set at 50. As a person zooms in, 50 results are returned for whatever view a person is looking at -- at maximum zoom, all results for whatever area a person can see are displayed.

Anyway, I have no desire to wade through all like seven or so of the javascripts that you reference on the page to see which one's running your interactive Google Map and how you choose to code it, but the Google Maps API should provide you with the information that you need to implement a ceiling on results returned, if that's the route you want to use. You'd want to look at the GMarkerManager class.