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Hello all! ^.^

I've been gathering information since open beta to fix up some secondary node maps for everyone to use, even before I discovered the DoL site. At first it was just to be for me and a few RL friends I had playing the game, but I'm much more pleased to discover all of you and hope that you can get some use out of them as well.

I found it rather frustrating that some of the main items I needed to level weaving were gotten from the grass (secondary) nodes for botany, and that I couldn't track them like I could trees. So I started taking notes and snapshots to put together a static resource, since they also don't move around.

I decided to start on the spearfishing maps first since we have so many fishing fans on here and I believe it will get the most use to begin with. I'll be chronicling them on the FFXIV/character website I made for Niska back in beta here: http://taruniska.tumblr.com/

Please if you have any comments, additions, or corrections to make post them in this thread or on the actual map thread on my website and I'll amend them as soon as I can. Also feel free to poke around the rest of the site while you're there and let me know what you think. ^.^ Enjoy!

http://taruniska.tumblr.com/post/1295276333/secondary-node-maps-spearfishing

I went ahead and published the post and linked here while I edit in the rest of the node maps I have just to get some initial feedback, so don't worry there's much more to come. ^.^

My to do list:
- Replace the cursor icon on the map with something more spiffy, like a fishing icon, and possibly a number to indicate grade
- Incorporate smaller map portions into one large map with scrolling or zooming capability

Niska this is GREAT. I am very interested in this project as I was looking to make something like this for this site. I have never played with the Google Map API but it may be one of the best solutions.

I thought that there should be a map in the area section with markers for all points of resources: Fishing, Mining, Logging, Spearfishing, Quarry and Spearfishing but I have not had the time yet. It would be great to have all the location with a different icon and maybe a little number to indicate grade. Then maybe some way of hiding and showing only those the user was interested in (checkboxes or something).

I am really looking forward to seeing how this works out and let me know if I can help in any way.