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Cartograph
Cartograph is a third party tool for mapping Infdev levels. It only works for Windows and Linux. Basically, what you do is Drag your saved minecraft file into the cartographer and it maps it. Some game crashes have been reported after using cartographer. 89% of people like it. 11% has crashed for them.

As of 17102010, Firemark's Linux port of Cartograph is confirmed working for the current Alpha version of Minecraft; this may be of value to Linux users, if they have limited options. It was later discovered to have deleted the map that it was used to view, however, so anyone wanting to use it is advised to make a backup of their saved map first.

The interface is textual, however it is simple to use. Because there is no GUI frame, however, it requires users to render each type of map graphic at a time, and then combine all of them as layers in The Gimp, in order to receive a full composite image of their map.

A YouTube video detailing this process is here:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqDvY6Bcgs

On use, Cartograph also generates a text file called map .txt, which contains a useful summary of map information; the size of the map in square meters, and the number of different objects of various kinds.

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