User blog:Orc King/Interactive maps deactivated!

A while ago (my last blog post actually) I was excited to announce the activation of the Wikia Interactive Maps feature that allowed us to create maps for game areas and pin points of interest. It was quite a good way to highlight a whole town or area and show all the points of interest in a more accessible format than a static map file.

Well... that feature turned out to be too expensive to run with the limited popularity Wikia found it had. An understandable decision on their part but it did remove all those maps from the wiki with nothing left in their place. I will try to find all pages with an empty "Interactive Map" section and remove it but please feel free to do this yourselves if you find one. I placed one on many of the Grandia town pages (and even created little icons - so sad to lose those).

If I get around to it, I will create some static maps using the same icons to display on the pages and see how that works out.

If you want to read the official post about the sunsetting (nice word for axing off) of the Interactive maps feature, then click here.