This latest development could be the last straw between reality and virtual reality: Imagine a virtual world - Elona, Plane of Knowledge, Azeroth... Ah! That last one sounds rather familiar. And we're telling you, it's about to get more familiar not only among MMO players but among non-players as well.

The fictional continent of Azeroth in the World of Warcraft now has an area that uses Google Maps API. The map, if we may add, is amazingly accurate. Accordingly, there are over 15,000 data points covering 69 resources with their exact map location in the WoW database.

Aside from that, players can also display herbs, ore, treasure, zone names, and city names. Speaking of herbs, some of the more known ones that could actually be mapped include Arthas' Tears, Black Lotus, Blindweed, Briarthorn and Bruiseweed among others.

The said development is quite important at this point because of the opening of the Outlands for the expansion The Burning Crusade. As all WoW hardcore gamers know, the mysterious Outlands has been mentioned a lot of times before but it is only until now that players are allowed to venture in it.