You can add your own markers to the map (right click iirc). Really helpful, got a hard time too finding my way around there early on.
Thank you, I will give that a try, right click on the map. I can't seem to zoom the map out very far and I follow the sign posts but never come across what it signposted. It is true north, south, east and west, I hope.
Edit: It's okay now. On the game I was playing my map was not zooming out, but on a restart and vitrifying a bad file it now zooms out okay.