Ever want to have coordinates without having an addon? Try this:

1) Open your macro screen, you can access it by typing "/macro" (Without the quotation marks, of course ^^) or by hitting the Escape key, because I think there's a macro button there, as well.
2) After choosing your icon for this way useful macro, pick a name for it. Me? I called mine "(X, Y)". Keep it simple ^^
3) Once you've got your name, and icon picked out, this is what you want to copy, and paste, into the macro screen:

/script px,py=GetPlayerMapPosition("player"); px=floor(px*1000); py=floor(py*1000); px=px/10; py=py/10;DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(format("%s: %s, %s",GetZoneText(),px,py));

4) That's it! If you're in Winterspring, and you use this, it should spit out something along these lines:

Winterspring: 45.3, 28

This handy-dandy macro uses decimal values ^^ It is fairly close to, say, the Cartographer addon (which I use also), but this is really nice for the people who don't like to download things to their computer - or aren't allowed to by their parents, lol.

There are a few glitches with this, i've discovered. After coming to a region, or after logging in, if you activate this macro, sometimes it will spit out a value looking like this:

Winterspring: 0, 0

To fix this, simply open your map, close your map, and Voila. It will now spit out your coordinates once again.

FYI bits of info about this:

1) It comes out as White-colored text by default - I'm sure there's a way to change the color of it.
2) No one else will see/hear/observe anything if you decide to spam this macro while you're looking for something in particular.

Enjoy!

Cyberfrost - 70 Shaman
Silver Hand

Can someone else confirm this?  I have a heavily modified user interface and it doesn't seem to work on mine.

cool macro and nicely done with the info.
i don't want to be a mood breaker or anything but, for the people that really don't want to do anything that sounds like ..well .. basically .. having to do something  (or that for some reason cant create a macro) - and we all know they exist - but also refuse to use a addon (for some strange reason), there is a alternative

although not really accurate, and it has one or two broken maps

www.wowlocator.com

This is great - thank you so much! It's really not hard at all, just like the poster said, open macro, copy/paste the stuff into it, and voila! works wonders! Whoo-hoo! no add-ons for me, ever!

Ok, lemme start by apologizing.  I'm new at this so, I'm not real familiar with how to even use a macro.  I copied and pasted, as directed, but don't know how to actually use it.

Further, I see a LOT of helpful information about locations coordinates, but have no Grid Reference Map to use the coordinate information...how do I get one?

Thank you in advance for any help you can give this newbie!

this macro by Kitster_2000, above is confirmed to work
just copy everything, including weird looking /';`'; things
you dont even need to make a macro, just copy and paste it in any chat line


/script px,py=GetPlayerMapPosition("player"); px=floor(px*1000); py=floor(py*1000); px=px/10; py=py/10;DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(format("%s: %s, %s",GetZoneText(),px,py));

Basically as well, when you create that macro, it acts as a non-passive Coordinates finder.  So you have to actually manually press the macro to get the coordinates.  The thing about a coordinate grid can be slightly off because each coordinates mod can have slightly different calculations on how they get the coordinates in the first place.  With that said, the slightly more tedious way is to run around and click the macro every few seconds to see which way the coordinates calculate.

Ex: if you run 30 seconds westward, click macro, what does it say, versus if you ran 1 minute eastward, click macros, what would it say, and so on and so forth.

Wow, is it just me or did Thottbot add a spellchecker?  I wonder if it's SeaMonkey.  I just upgraded from Mozilla Suite 1.7.5 to SeaMonkey...  /sigh, off topic

This thing deserves a bump

Why? It's already in the sticky.

That's the thing.  It seems like the sticky isn't showing up for some people like Boris and Coz.  So if that's the case, that means there will be others who can't see it as well. 

COME ON THOTTGOD, ANSWER OUR PLEA!