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New WoW Map Uses Google Local API

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-forget-to-look-up-to-see-the-kobolds dept.

Lord Satri writes "The WarCry Network lead me to the world's only ultra-high resolution map of the World of Warcraft universe. From WarCry: 'The site leverages the powerful Google Maps API to create a revolutionary scaled map with detail and precision never before seen on the Internet. A user can display any number of ore, herbs, or, treasure. Currently there are more than 15,000 resources in the database. All this, on one easy to navigate page.'"

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  1. Site FARK'd by llamalicious · · Score: 3, Informative

    Site was FARK'd before it could be slashdotted (at least the map images are).
    Good luck trying to view anything now.

  2. mapwow.com by MapWoW.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks for the /.! We just got digged and then farked. We've disabled all dynamic php content, so much of the useful functionality isn't available right now. If you want to see how useful the site is normally, please feel free to bookmark/delicious the site and come back tomorrow. :)

    The site is up for now, let's see how we last!

    -- MapWoW.com Team

    1. Re:mapwow.com by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 2, Informative

      The gold selling ads are from AdWords. One of the few profitable businesses built around WoW (other than selling boxed copies of the game itself) is selling gold. Gold probably has a higher profit margin than selling the game. So obviously gold sellers are going to pay the most for the keyword "World of Warcraft." It sucks, but these guys have to pay for hosting somehow.

      Preventing gold selling in an MMO is next to impossible anyway, and WoW is far better at mitigating its effects than any other MMO I've played. By comparison, FFXI's economy was totally screwed after about 6 months (over 1,000,000 gil for midlevel items? yah right.) WoW is over a year old and prices haven't jumped more than 25% since launch, except for certain specific items made more desirable by changes in the game mechanics.

      Yatlas is actually a nice replacement for the default map screen. Bonus is it's smaller so you can actually see/control your character while looking at the map.

  3. Re:Instances. by SydShamino · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was my favorite site for instance maps, when I played:
    http://worldofwarcraft.gameamp.com/game_map/viewGa meMaps/0.php!orderBy=17

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    It doesn't hurt to be nice.
  4. Re:Face on Mars by MapWoW.com · · Score: 3, Informative

    The site does have bookmarking, but it's half-way disabled for now because of the load.

    To use the bookmarking, first scroll to your face on mars or where-ever. Then at the bottom of the right-hand menu, you'll see a small "Link to this Location" link. Copy the URL for this link (vis right-clicking, clicking on the URL, or reading the Ethereal dump). Once the site is back to using PHP, then this link will take you to the location you visited. For example, this is the future-link to Darnassus:

    http://mapwow.com/?lat=-179.69959259033203&lng=85. 03840665961734&zoom=2

  5. Re:Donate by dswensen · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is Slashdot, we'd much rather sneer at them derisively for having too much time on their hands and / or no girlfriends (actual facts concerning social or sex life notwithstanding).