But what about the original request? Personal map markers that survive party disband and logoff/logon. From this update, this feature appears to be temporary during the life of a party or one player's leadership of that party and for clarifying party goals. What about gathering, or solo farming, so that we don't need to alt-tab to game support sites to remember where some location was that we haven't been to in weeks?

Begging your pardon, but it's a big map. Marking it as I learn in-game > Campsitarus + FFXI Cartography + 'pedia + ZAM + Pads + MB.