A small suggestion when it comes to maps and labels!

[JunseiKei]

I want to say it probably has something to do with chunks loaded and memory (I'm not real technical, I just have a very vague grasp of limitations). You know, how when you're not looking at something on a computer in a game, it's not loaded, but when you look around, your computer quickly pulls the information is needs and de-loads what it doesn't need. The map is just an image with way points (aetheryte, outposts- static stuff), like...... a map. Nothing to load in and track.

EDIT:
:x Oh, I'm thinking of occlusion culling, which you can set on or off in this game. So, eh, I guess? Would kind of make the mini-map fairly worthless, seeing as the main map can zoom in or out just as much.