Mapping WoW with Google's API

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massive multiplayer online game (as if you hadn't heard about it already), one that has such vast landscapes for players to traverse, it really needs its own map or something. Among the many add-ons available for WoW, I have yet to find a mapping add-on that I actually like. Being an early adopter is hard when the rest of the world doesn't understand. I would love it if there was a resource for WoW that was up to my chronic downloader's standard, using something like Google's map API.

Alas, there is such a resource (many in fact, but few that use Google technology), called MapWoW.com. Long time players have known about it for ages (and are probably asking why I just found it now), but it does in fact use Google's API to create some of the best WoW maps available. There are resource overlays so a player can view graphics where and what things are with the check of a box, overlayed on the map. You won't be able to find your local burger joint on this map, but it is a very creative and well put-together use of the wildly popular Google Maps API.

Tags: API, google, maps, WoW