Gatherer- What is it and what does it do?

Most of you in guild have heard some of talk about an Addon called Gatherer. I know it's probably raised a few eyebrows. Here's basically the lowdown on what it does. If you are in a gathering profession such as mining or herbing, and someone else is as well in guild, and you both have gatherer, whenever that other person picks a flower, or mines, your maps are also updated. This means when you enter a zone (even the first time), if a guildie has entered the zone and gathered before you and you were online, you will see where those plants or nodes were and what type. This is really handy if you are only there to farm mats. There's even a GathererDB provided by wowhead that has been introduced to supplement the data provided by guildies.


This is a mod you can easily turn off when you raid, if you are trying to maximize your performance. Even if you don't gather on that toon, you can still get the data for your other toons. All types of gathering is stored. You can also modify what to track with the options it has.

Explanation for Gatherer from WOWInterface.com

Gatherer is an addon for herbalists, miners and treasure hunters in World of Warcraft. It's main purpose is to track the closest plants, deposits and treasure locations on your minimap.The addon does not track like a tracking ability does, rather it "remembers" where you have found various items in the past. It does this whenever you gather (perform herbalism, mining or opening) on an item, and records the specific map location in its history. From then on, whenever the item comes into range of being one of the closest 1-25 (configurable) items to your present location, it will pop up on you minimap.When you view your World Map, you will also see the item locations marked on the particular map you are viewing there.For more information, please visit us at http://www.gathereraddon.com/


USAGE:--------------Just use the game as normal.When you gather things, they will appear on your minimap and your main map.If you want to configure the addon, click the Gatherer configuration icon floating around your minimap frame or type
/gather options.Slash Commands
/gather minimap (onofftoggle) - controls the minimap tracking functionality
/gather mainmap (onofftoggle) - controls the world map tracking functionality
/gather dist - sets the minimap tracking distance to this number of units. (in game yards)
/gather num - sets the maximum number of items to display (default=20, up to 50)
/gather herbs (onofftoggle) - select whether to show herb data on the minimap")
/gather ore (onofftoggle) - select whether to show mining data on the minimap")
/gather treasure (onofftoggle) - select whether to show treasure data on the minimap")
/gather options - show the configuration dialog


CONTRIBUTING:--------------Gatherer is an open source project, and is built upon the donations and the support of the community. To help with translations, please visit http://localizer.norganna.org/To help with Object Translations, please visit http://www.wowhead.com/Forums: http://forums.norganna.org/Issue Tracking: http://jira.norganna.org/browse/GATH