siliconbeat.com — Yahoo's been in the mapping business longer than a lot of companies. But the Sunnyvale company has let its competitors leapfrog it in one key area - satellite imagery. That's finally changed. Yahoo's Jeremy Kreitler is announcing at SDForum tonight that Yahoo has finally adding that capability to the Yahoo Maps beta, which we last wrote about here.
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wayjerApr 12, 2006Submitter
Could Yahoo world be next???
wayjerApr 12, 2006Submitter
Still in Beta
prabApr 12, 2006
First off, most of these sites get their images from the same companies. Second, Google maps and earth let you zoom in more, so are better (IMO). I have also noticed that on Google Earth, they must apply some sharping and contrast filters because their pictures are the same, but a little clearer. With all that said, I like the competition. They all press each other to do better.
faniApr 12, 2006
Will Yahoo stop copying Google ? What happened to innovation ?Yahoo = Microsoft. Steal. Copy. Emulate.
aggieandrewApr 12, 2006
I think Yahoo looks a whole lot better than Google. I guess they did some color correction to make everything go together in the zoomed out view. The central Texas area is just one big gray spot on Google when zoomed out. In Yahoo it all blends together.And my hometown is much more up-to-date in yahoo than google. They are dependent on their sources for the images. It's not like they have their own satellites taking pictures.
neaveApr 12, 2006
COMPETITION IS A GOOD THINGWell done Yahoo! It won't be long now before most mapping imagery and data is free...
mdgoApr 13, 2006
Check maps at www.ask.com. You can right click at add multiple locations and even change the order of the route. I find it much better than google or yahoo if you need directions from point A to B, but through point C or in any other order
admin250Apr 24, 2006
RezSav where you from d**kh**d?