Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
However the 3.2 patch notes still mention getting the exp bonus for completing the map... but I'm not sure if it's a cumulative total of the exp that the player would have otherwise gained manually completing the map, a token small amount or what, as I completed those maps a long time ago (many years before the 3.2 patch change) so I have no way of verifying this. So take what I said with a grain of salt.
Though I'd already completed the ARR maps on my main character a long time ago, one of my alt characters hadn't, and did so after that change. He got a chunk of XP and the mapping achievement as soon as he first entered a previously unexplored zone, along with filling in the entire remainder of the region's map. I'm not sure if it's equivalent to the cumulative total of what the small area XP bonuses had been before 3.2, but we do still get XP. (It's just not much of an achievement any more now that it only requires stepping foot inside a region rather than fully exploring it.)