OpenMapPins

Your map, your notes. OpenMapPins is a standalone replacement for HandyNotes: place your own pins, draw routes, and paint areas directly onto the world map and minimap – organized into groups, filterable, conditionally displayed, and shareable via import strings or chat links.

No dependencies, no extra modules, no XML templates – a lightweight addon with its own modern interface.

Features Overview

Pins, Labels, Lines & Areas

• Pins with name, description, icon (built-in icon browser with search), customizable color, and size
• Text labels placed directly on the map – customizable color and font size
• Lines & routes – solid, dashed, or dotted, optionally with numbered waypoints
• Areas painted and erased using a brush tool, e.g., for farming spots or event zones
• Sub-icons – multiple positions per pin (e.g., all spawn points of a rare spawn), connected and highlighted on hover
• Appears on world map and minimap, optionally displayed on parent maps or strictly on the current map

Staying Organized

• Groups nested at any depth (e.g., Draenor / Gorgrond / Treasures), toggleable, lockable, and duplicable
• Tags with colors for a secondary level of organization
• Management window featuring a group tree, zone and tag filters, multi-selection, and full settings control
• Search with auto-complete covering names, zones, groups, tags, and rewards – one click opens the map and highlights the entry

Map Filters

• Use the funnel button to filter and display only pins matching specific tags or symbols – e.g., only treasures or a specific icon
• Applies to both world map and minimap and remains saved

Conditions & Load Conditions

• Hide, fade, or check off entries dynamically based on quests, achievements, achievement criteria, mounts, toys, items, transmog, faction, class, race, or level
• AND/OR logic gates, "fulfilled" or "not fulfilled" triggers – perfect for treasures and rare mobs that should vanish after looting
• Load conditions for groups: e.g., load only for Alliance, only at maximum level, or only in Classic

Rewards & Tooltips

• Attach rewards per entry: items, gold, reputation, currencies, or custom free text
• Detailed tooltips with icons, item sub-types (e.g., Necklace, Mount), and a check mark if already collected
• Gold color-coded in g/s/c format

Placeholders with Live Values

• Dynamic text placeholders such as %next(13:00, 30)% (next spawn + remaining time), %daily%, %distance%, %quest(id)%, or %itemcount(id)%
• Updated live in tooltips – includes built-in documentation

Navigation

• On-screen navigation arrow with distance display, optionally stops automatically upon arrival
• Alternative support for Blizzard map waypoints or TomTom

Sharing & Importing

• Import/Export strings for individual entries or whole groups – secured with checksums, fully validated, and never executed as raw code
• Chat links: [OpenMapPins #id: Name] – other players using OpenMapPins can import the entry with a single click
• Handles large datasets with thousands of entries – processed asynchronously in batches with a progress indicator

Controls & Usage

Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Feel free to leave a comment – all feedback is greatly appreciated!