One of the great things about World of Warcraft is that the game allows users to create small programs, called AddOns, to enhance the game experience. The most useful and popular ones are map AddOns, since they provide at a minimum, important map coordinates as well as full maps of zones and instances.MiniCoords is a very basic AddOn that gives the coordinates of the player location on the world map as well as the minimap. By moving your cursor, you can also obtain coordinates for other locations on the map.If you have a relatively large screen, you could easily place the Cartographer world map on the edge of your screen as you play. Cartographer is powerful and robust, and comes highly recommended by many players.Make sure you get the most recent version since the older ones still being offered by many sites will not work well. To get the most current versions, visit the following WOW Map AddOn page.

This is a highly popular map AddOn that runs smoothly and provides just about everything you could want in a robust AddOn. With Cartographer, you can view maps for all zones, even ones that you have not yet explored. In addition, it provides coordinates, instance maps, battleground maps, and offers customizable features such as the ability to resize the map window or even adjust the transparency of the map. Finally, there is Atlas, an AddOn exclusively for instance maps. If you don't use an instance map AddOn, larger instances will quickly become overwhelming since you will have to work your way through by using only the minimap. Atlas fixes this problem with images of each instance fully mapped, with the addition of other useful hints such as the location of major bosses.Without question, AddOns are a great asset that facilitates World of Warcraft gameplay, however, many AddOns eventually become outdated or even incompatible as the game evolves and new patches are released. Many widely used AddOns from just a couple years ago are not used anymore because they do not work with current versions of the game.At a minimum, almost every player needs an easy way to look up map coordinates, simply because every guide or website refers to locations by using coordinates.