With the upcoming Midsummer Festival tomorrow the site has been upgraded to the new version. The new version comes with a wider array of supported devices, new share possibilities and a static map. While the site is still getting it’s tweaks it’s ready to provide a easy to use map with the Midsummer Festival bonfires for the upcoming week.

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With the new version of WyriMaps nearing it’s release I’ll show you one of it’s features. With static maps a portion of the map can easy be including in a blog or forum post. This static map is exactly like the ones Google offers but with our own tile layers. We’ll be using this feature in the upcoming share window with a set of predefine sizes. The preview only supports the map using latitude longitude coordinates but the final version will include nodes, in-game coordinates for the World of Warcraft map and the same fast delivery setup as the tiles.

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WyriMaps is moving to the Google Maps API V3. The picture above shows the first working POC of WyriMaps running on V3. With this version my goal to run (smooth) on mobile devices comes a bit closer. I’m using the full javascript engine rewrite to switch to V3 and make more use of it’s features. Another thing that is going to change is the way URL’s are build up in the link to window. To be backwards compatible rewrite rules will be put in place to redirect the old url’s to the new ones without breaking the old links. Something else changing is the way nodes are loaded from the server. Instead of AJAX calls we are moving to on-demand JavaScript loading. This should further more lower the load on the servers and speedup the site experience. More news is soon to follow (and also screens of the different platforms supported).

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First of all welcome to the new blog for WyriMaps.net. In order to have more time and focus on the actual website I’ve setup a WordPress blog in order to do all the blogging on. The WyriMaps backend is undergoing big changes (ouf of sight for most people) to provide a more stable website.

Nginx is a very fast http server WyriMaps.net uses to serv it’s tile images. With the right tweaks it now serves the most popular files incredible fast almost instantly. In the near future not only the tiles but also the node information will be served from a subdomain to lower the load on the main domain. This results in more requests to handle for the nginx server but with the tuning and tweaking done it won’t be noticeable.

A new design is beeing developt in order to create a better recognizeable look acros the WyriMaps.net and WyriHaximus.net sites. But with it’s own look and feel, the new WyriMaps.net look is only party done as the footer is next and after that the background. After WyriHaximus.net the WyriMaps.net blog is the first to recieve this look.

Going more social. With all the new features planned like a twitter account and a facebook page alot of work has to be done. With the upcoming new version of WyriMaps it will be possible to tweet or share a place on the map directly with your friends. Be it via twitter, facebook, email, embed it on a forum it will all be there. As soon as a preview will be ready I’ll inform you !

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With the new upcoming 3.2 patch Blizzard introduces a new Battleground named Isle of Conquest. Here at WyriMaps.net you get a sneakpeak of the map.

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A few minutes ago I updated the midsummer makers with separate icons for the alliance and horde bonfires.

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The map has been updated and several updates or pushed tomorrow and thursday.

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Due to overwhelming interest in WyriMaps.net we had to enforce a few measures to keep everything up and running.

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WyriMaps.net is proud to announce the linking of current active marker sites.

Enjoy!

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New: Veins, Herbs, FP’s, Inns and GY’s locations on the World of Warcraft map.

• Instance locations
• (Sub)Zone names
• Zepplin/Boat Routes

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