MapExplorer

Fly over the World of Warcraft world, drawn from your own game install. Everything is read straight from the game files on your computer; nothing is hosted, uploaded or downloaded.

Built for WoW Classic, with Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor loaded as one seamless world.

Windows

You need Windows 10 or 11 and World of Warcraft Classic installed.

1. Download MapExplorer-portable.zip from the latest release and unzip it anywhere.
2. Run MapExplorer.exe. If Windows says "Windows protected your PC" (the program isn't signed), click More info, then Run anyway.
3. It finds World of Warcraft by itself. If not, click Choose your World of Warcraft folder and pick the folder that contains _classic_ or _classic_beta_. The files never leave your computer.

Fly with W A S D, hold Shift to go faster. Press ? for all controls.

Linux and macOS

Run from source. You need World of Warcraft Classic, Chrome or another Chromium-based browser, git and Bun.

git clone https://github.com/Coldensjo/ClassicWowMapExplorer.git
cd ClassicWowMapExplorer
bun install
bun run dev

Then open http://localhost:5173. It looks for the game in the usual places (Wine, Lutris, Bottles, Steam, Heroic on Linux; /Applications on macOS). If it can't find it, set WOW_DIR to the folder that contains _classic_ or _classic_beta_, or choose the folder in the page:

WOW_DIR="/path/to/World of Warcraft" bun run dev

macOS is untested.

Troubleshooting

• "That isn't the World of Warcraft folder": pick the folder one level up, the one that contains _classic_ or _classic_beta_.
• Nothing shows up: use Chrome or Edge with hardware acceleration on and an up-to-date graphics driver.
• Freezes or stutter: press F9 right after one to save a debug log and attach it to the issue.

For developers

• bun run dev: start the dev server
• bun run build: type-check and build to dist
• bun run spawns: rebuild the spawn files from a VMaNGOS SQLite database (-- path/to/mangos.sqlite)
• bun run regions: rebuild regions, flight paths, boats and zeppelins
• bun run portable: build the Windows portable version into release/

Source layout: src/casc (storage), src/formats (file formats), src/worker (parsing), src/explorer (world data), src/viewer (rendering, controls, audio), tools (Bun scripts).