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Yahoo Maps

Yahoo Maps rolls out a bunch of new features

August 2, 2008

Calling it their “summer-time refresh“, Yahoo has released a bunch of updates for Yahoo Maps.  They include: Improved Local Search integration that utilizes the Search/Direct Display Index More user-friendly Driving Directions – a more user-friendly left rail that’s both wider and more legible (larger text), for easier reading of driving directions A redesigned Print Page [...]

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Creative tool added to Yahoo Local Maps

April 23, 2008

Yahoo has just added a simple, innovative “search circle” tool to their Local Maps, which help you quickly narrow down the geographic area that you’re searching. If you click on “expand map” after a search, you’ll see a blue circle appear on the map.  The results are only shown for locations within that circle.  You [...]

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Yahoo updates imagery for most of the United States

April 12, 2008

Not to be outdone by Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has updated their imagery for most of the United States.  While it’s still simply 2D maps, they’ve updated a ton of imagery. Since it’s inception, Yahoo has added over 500 cities across the world, but today has seen the biggest change ever in their US data. [...]

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Lots of updates to Yahoo Maps

March 6, 2008

Yahoo has been pretty quiet lately about their Maps, compared to Google and Microsoft.  Today they finally have some news. As reported by Search Engine Land and posted on the Yahoo Local & Maps Blog, here is what has been added: New Neighborhood Data at lower zoom levels with: > 300 cities with new neighborhood [...]

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Yahoo Go 3.0 released, with a nice version of Yahoo Maps

January 8, 2008

As reported by Mobileography, Yahoo has just released Yahoo! Go 3.0.  Among the many features in this new mobile suite is a pretty good version of Yahoo Maps. In my brief testing, it seems very similar to Google Maps Mobile, though I give a slight edge to Google. Their app seems to load tiles a [...]

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