For map Appearance and meet other player in map
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I am a fan of Harry Potter too, and I would like to suggest for this popular game I hope that the appearance of the map is like the medieval scroll map unlike now why the road is black asphalt and green land, I think that it feels more magical to show ordinary people can know the greats or enjoy the characteristics of the harry potter world
and I really hope to find or see other players in the map view,
thank you hopefully it will come true
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I've thought some about your suggestion.
The most meaningful example of a map in Harry Potter is the marauders map, but it's more of a floor plan or blueprint than a traditional map.
A similar map of the Wizarding World exists:
The biggest problem with using this style is that it lacks color. Color is used in the game to show buildings and park areas. Frankly if you buy a wand at the theme park they give you a map like this and most people I know really struggle with it.
Here is a map from another Harry Potter title that does a good job at mixing both the look and feel of the medieval map with color.
Unfortunately the 3d perspective of the map forces it to only be viewed in a North up orientation. Problematic for a mobile game.
The basic map in use comes from Pokemon Go and is optimized to reduce load time by reducing the amount of data required. It does a fairly good job of what it's supposed to do in my opinion. I agree that it would be nice if the tones could be altered to fit the Harry Potter universe slightly better but the green background is intended to make the foundable icons visible so messing with it if playing with fire.
I would encourage you to try to mock up something, if it's good maybe Niantic can build off of it.
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I am a fan of the current in-game map, but I'd love to see a global map (like the Ingress intel map) available via a website, based on the idea of the Marauder's map. It would be awesome if it would allow you to see the RL position of your in-game friends who have the game open or have had it open in the last n minutes, much like the Marauder's map would show other wizards, when you are logged in with your in-game e-mail address and if your in-game friends have opted in for that. That would help one team up for fortress battles. (I know some folks who also play Ingress would not opt in, especially if their HPWU friends are on the opposite Ingress faction -- giving away their location in HPWU could be too telling for Ingress. For those of us who tend not to care about that for general play, we would just have to be careful about not opening HPWU when opsec demands that for Ingress).
Said map could be pastel-colorized like the last map @OSPREY1 posted, marking the flagged areas for traces in color, with 3d-ish fortresses, inns, greenhouses and flags coming out of it, and if you moused over them you'd see an indication of the type of trace more likely to be found there, as you do in-game. I'm really struggling with finding certain types of traces (like Legends of Hogwarts); being able to locate marked areas on a map for increased traces of a certain type would be so fantastic. That, and being able to locate optimally placed inns, fortresses and greenhouses for concentrated play.