Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.'"

12 of 58 comments (clear)

  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

  3. But does it leverage... by Yst · · Score: 5, Funny
    The site leverages the powerful Google Maps API to create a revolutionary scaled map with detail and precision never before seen on the Internet.

    But does it leverage the power of insufferable marketing lingo to pro-actively develop a synergistic user-oriented information transaction? Yes, yes, I think it does.

    --
    Karma: Chameleon (comes and goes)
  4. No by lbmouse · · Score: 5, Funny

    '... All this, on one easy to navigate page.'

    All this, on one smoking server.

  5. Hmm.. by SeekerDarksteel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Resources, herbs, thats great...but what I really want to know is...

    Can I zoom in on Darnassus to look down Night Elfs' shirts?

    --
    The laws of probability forbid it!
  6. CL by photojunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Gnomish Spy Satellite" Crafter Lvl: 335

  7. Used google api, but not their servers by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if even Google's servers could've handled the load fired at that poor site. Then again, I wonder what they were thinking, to make a WoW interactive app, post it on the internet, and then allow just everyone to go use it. Of course, now that all the WoW people know about it, it'll just be slammed forever. I'd love to see a graph of their traffic:
    satuday: 9 hits
    sunday: 10 hits
    monday: 9999999 hits
    tuesday: 999999 hits
    wednesday: 9999 hits + holding, ka BOOM! goes the server...

    --
    stuff |
  8. Donate by Onan · · Score: 3, Insightful


    If this seems like a cool idea, and something that you're glad someone did, give 'em a few bucks through that donation link on the right. Encouraging and facilitating nifty things helps produce future nifty things.

    (And no, I'm not affiliated with the creators or ISP here. Just sayin'.)

  9. 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

    --
    It doesn't hurt to be nice.
  10. Copyright Infringement by Sparr0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Has anyone considered the legal ramifications of them ripping media from the game and distributing it online? Unless I am mistaken, this map is generated from the minimap's textures. Problems arose in the same sort of online maps for other games (EQ, DAOC, AO).

    1. Re:Copyright Infringement by Loco3KGT · · Score: 3, Funny

      wow grammar surprise.

      If your name really is Bob then my last name is Chang.

      --
      Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
  11. 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