Yahoo Maps Get More Local

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1. free market research company
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 8:58 am

   what is next for yahoo and google - i would say live traffic updates (no later than 5 mins gap ) that would do wonders for both.

2. Mikel Schwarz
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 9:05 am

   What’s Next? One of them (Yahoo! or Google) should allow me to send directions from my computer to the XM navigation system in my car. Now that would be awesome.

3. bs
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 9:11 am

   yahoo does have live traffic, im looking at 4 minute gap right now no yahoo

4. Sumesh
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 9:14 am

   Yahoo maps is suspiciously like Google Maps. I wonder whether this was a deliberate ploy to take attention away from MS’s offer?

5. bs
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 9:14 am

   this neighborhood thing is awesome, way more detailed than google maps

6. Eros
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 9:19 am

   Live Maps is way more superior then yahoo or google maps…

7. Keith Duarte
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 9:47 am

   “The best UI for maps is to keep it simple and then offer different layers of information that can be turned on or off depending on what you are looking for.” - The best example I’ve seen of this is Mammoth Mountain’s Interactive Flash Trail Map: http://www.mammothmountain.com.....ap/map.cfm

   Click on any of the menu options on the bottom of the page to add/remove this feature from the map.

8. jro
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 9:58 am

   @2 Mikel said:
   “One of them (Yahoo! or Google) should allow me to send directions from my computer to the XM navigation system in my car.”

   The terms of use (at least with Google) prevents that from happening because of their terms with Navteq. Navteq provides a lot of the gps directional systems on the market today. If Google permitted that, it would be easy to build a free product that undercuts Navteq’s business.

   From http://www.google.com/intl/en_.....maps.html:
   “Except where you have been specifically licensed to do so by Google, you may not use Google Maps with any products, systems, or applications installed or otherwise connected to or in communication with vehicles, capable of vehicle navigation, positioning, dispatch, real time route guidance, fleet management or similar applications.”

   What sucks is that the limitation in doing that has nothing to do with sufficient technology, it’s strictly a data licensing issue.

9. Nate
   

   March 6th, 2008 at 10:27 am

   Wow did they just lose a lot of credibility with me! They completely messed up Chicago’s neighborhoods. Whole areas have been wiped off the map, boundaries bizarrely redrawn, new names given to some areas, and other shocking errors. Looks like I’ll be turning to Live Maps or Google Maps from now on. Yahoo! Maps cannot be trusted.

10. kuldeep
    

    March 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am

    I am happy lately about all good review on new yahoo products….seems in all the clouds of ms-yahoo deal, yahoo is progressing well.

11. Peter
    

    March 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    What can Yahoo (or Google) do next to make their maps even more indispensable?

    How about provide bicycle directions based on bicycle maps/lanes?

    Please sign the petition if you’re down:
    http://www.petitiononline.com/.....ition.html

    More info available here:
    http://googlemapsbikethere.org/

12. Michael
    

    March 6th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    Yuck. Y! Maps still seems to rank bottom on my list of mapping sites.

    The road map UI still seems akin to the 90’s.

    There’s no way to make personal maps, or any advanced tools to customize with.

    The graphical ads, like you guys said are annoying.

    And when you zoom in too close, you lose site of any business listings, even if Y! did show it a few zooms higher.

    Live Maps is far better. It does all the good stuff that Y! Maps does (if there’s any) and has other extra features.

    And Live Maps also does a lot of mapping updates, as they say on their blog a lot. Though DS doesn’t mention it much.

    I only like Y!’s marked points icon. That’s it.

13. PSP
    

    March 6th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    I like it, although I still think Microsoft Virtual Earth is the best.

14. Bungles
    

    March 6th, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    Didnt Yahoo and BMW do a demo a while back where you could send directions to your car’s GPS?

15. Bungles
    

    March 6th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    Actually it was Google and BMW. Here is what I found on a quick search: http://googleblog.blogspot.com.....o-car.html

16. Matt
    

    March 6th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    that’s a good question, Erick… I’m completely blown away by online maps now-a days… some times on the interstates around the twin cities i’ll see people with map-quest maps printed out… i want to cry for them. i know their experience in perusing those directions was miserable… why aren’t they using google, yahoo, or even ask… all seem a century more advanced than the old crap maps of yore….

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