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UnknownHedgehog:
In my opinion, I think the current live map application we use, Minecraft Overviewer, should be replaced with Minecraft Dynamic Map.

Here are the links to the Minecraft Dynamic Map:
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/dynmap/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/211913-minecraft-dynamic-map/

There are many things that make Minecraft Dynamic Map superior to Minecraft Overviewer:

* Updated in real time. As in, you would no longer have to wait every few hours to see your builds updated on the map. You can apparently even have the map open on the browser and have Minecraft open, and see the changes happen as you build.
* Players can be seen on the map. An icon of the user's face is seen where the player is currently located on the world. This is also pretty close to real time.
* Users can switch between the isometric view (the view Minecraft Overviewer always uses) and a top-down view (much like how you look at maps in-game). There's even the option the owner can implement that allows users to view caves and tunnels in an "xray" type of view, but I'm sure that won't be implemented.
* Weather and Minecraft time is shown on the top.
* The option to allow users to see WorldGuard (protection zones) borders along with who owns them, the flags, etc; however, Optical would need to download the "corresponding Dynmap-* plugins" for that, which I know Optical doesn't like using other people's plug-ins.
* Appareantly users can chat with players in-game, but I've never seen a server that utilized that.

* "Overall highly configurable and customizable" as one of the links above mentions, so I'm assuming there's lots of options Optical would have to set up the maps.-

I'm sorry for posting something that relates to another server, but I really want to provide an example. Here's a live map I googled:
http://www.buxville.net/map/?worldname=world&mapname=flat&zoom=0&x=1215.9999999999998&y=64&z=-2808

On the left side, you can toggle what icons you want see on the map (spawn, warps, players, etc.), and on the right you can change what world to look at and the map view (top-down, isometric, "cave" (which is the xray-esque view I mentioned before, which Im assuming is optional since Ive seen some servers have the option while others don't). Even the players online can be seen on the right.

Admittedly, there is one flaw I've noticed that Minecraft Overviewer has a one-up on, and that being that when you zoom in too close, the image starts to get a bit blurry. However, whether or not that outweighs all the good things I mentioned above is up to you.

I know we would need Optical in order for this to happen, but I think it would be worth trying to contact Optical about replacing the current live map, Minecraft Overviewer, with the far superior Minecraft Dynamic Map.

clawstrider:
If we can support it, then +1.

DeeKay:
I support the use of Dynmap. I think it's time for an upgrade.

Nick3306:
We thought about this instea dof the map we currently use and there was a reason optical didnt want to use this. I cant for the life of me remember what that reason was. I assume it requires more resources and stuff.

DeeKay:
I'm not an expert on plugins and their resource usage and what not, but there has always been the argument that Dynmap is 'resource hungry'. For someone who runs this plugin, I can say I haven't seen any kind of drop in server performance, or a drop in whatever Dynmap has been accused of affecting.

Not only that, there have been tons of updates to the plugin since the implementation of our current live map, those being bug updates and other things I'm sure Optical was originally weary of. I'd love to see this plugin in action.

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