Yahoo! Maps Comes to Town
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Posted By Rochelle Knight on 11/03 at 01:54 PM |
The competition is increasing for Google... Yahoo! is launching its response to Google Maps. Yahoo! Maps, naturally. It's still in the beta stage right now but the bonuses are: Multi-point driving directions, Live Traffic stats, and an excellent integration with Yahoo! Local to name a few. Yes, I do like being able to know how I get from my house to a friend's house to that restaurant near my friend and if I'll run into any major traffic issues.
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has an in-depth review of the power of Yahoo! Maps. Pretty impressive.
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I took a look at the API's the offer and its good that they are still saying Y!Maps is in beta. If you click on the plots for tracking a hurricane, the popup windows showed me HTML coding as well as an option for directions into the middle of the ocean.
http://api.maps.yahoo.com/Maps/V1/AnnotatedMaps?appid=RitaPath&xmlsrc=http://premshree.org/cgi-bin/rita.cgi
Posted by: Keith Ort | November 3, 2005 03:10 PM
Love the 'traffic' feature on this site. Very cool.
Posted by: Matt Certo | November 3, 2005 04:29 PM
Check this out:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-11-07-googe-cell-maps_x.htm
You can get Google Maps on your cell phone now. What will Yahoo! do now?
Posted by: Jennifer Springer | November 7, 2005 10:29 AM
That is interesting. Maybe it's something Yahoo will incorporate before they launch the official version... according to one of the article's comments (in the original post), Flash Lite, a Flash profile developed for mobile phones, is pretty big in Japan. I haven't found anything yet but maybe this will pick up some interest in the U.S. soon as well.
Posted by: Rochelle Knight | November 7, 2005 01:47 PM