I love trying out new apps and web sites and things that help make EVE Online a little easier for me – so when I heard there was a new mapping app, I was interested. It’s called Wanderer, and it has (at this moment, at least) a pretty active developer but it IS still in development, so things might go sideways sometimes.
I recently started using Tripwire to plot out my adventures, it’s the OG as far as mapping goes (minus just using a good ‘ol pen and paper) but it can be a bit too old fashioned. It has grown on me the last couple of weeks and is my preferred method of mapping right now but I also wanted something different for my non-signal cartel characters. My feeling towards mapping programs also changes because I really liked Pathfinder – which is still running, but is no longer being developed (from what I understand). A bunch of instances that I was using have shut down, so I can’t host my maps there any more – and that was getting annoying.
Hence wanderer.
You can share your maps between an access list, you can turn out auto tracking, add tags, and any other number of map-like features. One thing tripwire does that I don’t think either pathfinder or wanderer have done is allow for map masks, I can see other signal cartel mapping if I have my own set to corp. This helps me in so many ways, I can’t even begin. It’s certainly a feature that wanderer should perhaps look at.
In any case, we’ll see how long I stick with it for. I’m not too bothered by some of the statistics not showing up unless you pay – I can either pay, or just use zkill or dotlan (or even the in game map) to see these statistics if that’s something I care about. In most cases it doesn’t make a difference to me, unless I’m hauling something expensive around.
Speaking of – I did take a hauling trip this week to bring some stuff into the Wormlife Freeport. More about that in another post.
Fly your way! o7
A Pixel Nomad 