Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26538177-20151013203207/@comment-25841881-20151014130523

HubToo wrote: There are several functions in your proposal:
 * sharing a map location with others
 * offering others the ability to teleport to this location
 * letting users access these functions

The second one is against the logic of the LOTR mod in my opinion. You have to unlock regions by visiting them first to gain access to their way points. Imagine Frodo TPing to a way point near Mount Doom because some random orc published a way point near it :-) At the very least a custom way point should be associated with some alignments, and you would have to be compatible with them in order to use it.

For the first and third functions, I am currently working on something similar. Using The Minecraft Overviewer (Google maps mapping software for Minecraft), I am currently adding support for the LOTR mod. Then, on my server, I plan a periodic process scanning the custom way points of players and putting in common those starting with a special character (I was thinking of something for Points Of Interest - public WP -, and something for map glitches to correct - sharing with admins only -. After the common WP is collected, the player would no longer need to keep it in his own list). Then I would put these common custom way points on the map generated like I did in the past for the Millénaire mod.

For people not playing on my server, I think something would be do-able outside of the LOTR mod. There is an old 1.6.4 mod allowing for custom user waypoints. I don't think it supports sharing between users, but as it is Free(d) software, it could probably be modified fairly easily to use a common file storage for all users. I think that it would send/publish the waypoint, and the biome group it is in, and then it could see if you have been there before, and it would function like a normal FT point.