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- gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -9/+150"Google Maps is the best/True dat, Double True"
- Kilroy2004, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42Marked as inaccurate!!!
Here is why:
In Google Maps API, the road information is taken from TeleAtlas (bottom right corner of map), whereas, on the actual Google Maps website, it is entirely NAVTEQ data. This can make a big difference, as I know several places in my town that the TeleAtlas data is horribly out of date.
This is not a comparison of Google Maps vs Yahoo Maps... it is a comparison of the APIs. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Google's server's are faster too.
- grapeape25, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29Google maps also seems more of the world covered... I put it on satelite mode and I went to my house and Google had it on every level, where as Yahoo! I had to zoom out like 6 times.
- ccheath, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21i'd like a 3-way comparison with the local.live.com windows maps as well
- TiMMY8765, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20because the google map takes less time to load
- frascellyboy273, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16maybe your penis
- bugninja, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16In Spokane, WA, the Google Satellite view is MUCH better, but in Yahoo, the street info seems far more accurate (with 1-way road information, and new roads, etc) YET Google shows schools and Yahoo doesn't. Wow, what huge differences!!
- daboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I live a bit north of Atlanta, GA, and the Yahoo maps are newer for my area. A new school they just built, right by my house is in the Yahoo one.
On google, it's still a mass of woods. - spinomatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I love google maps - but if they would only show exit numbers off of the interstates....
- steveng, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14I live in Yakima, Wa. and Yahoo! Maps has much better images than google. Type in: 98902 Yakima Wa
- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8techcrunch had one and chose yahoo maps :-/
- Gullop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The yahoo maps show up faster than the google ones for me :/
I live in UK so maybe google doesn't have so many severs here in UK. - frascellyboy273, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7google wins hands down for sattelite coverage and speed, yahoo prevails with searches without adresses
- Dadgumit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7For my two cents
Yahoo actually seems to have a better means of finding "things" in an area on the map (looking for types of restaurants on the beta maps interface for instance). They also seem, just from my personal experience, to have more detailed maps, and better street data.
What absolutely KILLS Y!'s map is the painfully slow load time.
Yahoo's advantages just aren't worth it, unless they can get their load times down.
On a side note, I have been seeing more and more valid, worthy comments "thumbs downed". I can only assume that this is due to some "fanboyism" for google (in the case of this digg). To that I would say that voting with emotion is ALWAYS ALWAYS bad. You are bringing down the average, and hurting the community. Use your critical thinking skills, or develop them if you are lacking, and consider what you digg up or digg down. - armadilloguy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Try this for a 3 way comparison:
http://maps.idelix.com - shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8the difference is in how they display it
and no, they dont use the same data if you're referring to the satellite images. obviously the street names are the same, but the aerial views aren't. - jonathantneal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6My town is more popular on Yahoo
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.html#33.88617262125263,-117.92410254478455,1,2
But there's better parking on Google. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Not necessarily true... The intelligence behind the address search is far from similar... See my comment below.
- webonics, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I personally prefer Yahoo! Maps API. I find its a much better rapid development environment for me. I have also developed several mapping applications with the Google Maps API. However, I have run into problems with Google on IE7 combatability and areas of a map that do not display on slower user connections. I also like that Yahoo! Maps is Flex-based and can be integrated in JS, Flash and/or Flex. I find the Yahoo! Maps to be more visually appealing aesthetically too.
- theantidote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think Yahoo is cheating with their satellite photos. They boosted the green a bit, or at least for my area. Google's is a lot clearer and easier to see, Yahoo's makes it look like 1000 new trees popped up in the 1-2 year difference between the photos. It makes it look like a better picture until you really look at it.
EDIT: Nevermind, I'm retarded. Google's was taken during the fall and Yahoo's during the Spring/Summer. - benshariff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Check this out, four engine cargo plane in China on some sort of catapult and no runway, weird.
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.html#31.034237,103.652706,1,1 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I sure hope that you do realize that what you are calling server speed is pure speculation and could be bandwidth, AJAX / design, your computers speed with the JS application, or any number of other issues.
- Judahgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been a big Google Maps fan for quite some time, so I'm biased in saying I think GMaps is better than Yahoo Maps.
Recently I've tried out Microsoft's Virtual Earth and their corresponding maps...cool stuff! One thing I really like is the Birds' Eye View, something Google Maps doesn't have yet. Very cool feature. Good to see competition, really improves all the products around. - Ebeniz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5no they don't... here's an example
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.html#43.748684161599954,-79.33141708374023,1,0
The parks don't match and there's an extra street on Yahoo - SourWorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I've been using local.live.com a lot more lately because of the ability to add pushpins and store collections of them. I've used the collections to plan a few trips. I would start marking places I might want to go to and then when I had a plan I would just directions from one pushpin to the other.
- LukeBK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Could this be a old copy of yahoo I went to maps.yahoo.com and it could show me my house and on this website it couldn’t.
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If only Google Maps could generate accurate directions, it might be worth something. It doesn't help that the traffic flow arrows on their maps are often pointing the wrong way, that numerous streets are mislabled, or that they have inaccurate coordinate data for 90% of SoCal AND Cleveland (Ohio). I would have figured that the SoCal bit was an anomaly, but their Cleveland data is even worse.
Really, the only thing that GMaps has going for it is that it doesn't use flash, so it's easier for programmers to use in their own apps. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was thumbed down for saying what you just did so to you I give a thumbs way up! Google fanboys/gals ignore quality for a brand-name and elitism. Sure the pages may load a bit slower on Yahoo! maps, but for accuracy and ability to find off-and-away places it sure beats the hell out of Google Maps. This coming from a guy who is on free GoogleWIFI in Mountain View and who uses GMail for his domain email. Give me at least a little credit, I am being as objective as possible when I say Yahoo! maps takes the cake on this one.
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It does, but it has a fresh coffee detector built into it. You have to select sat or hybrid mode, and then make a fresh cup of coffee, and bring it back to the computer. (And I'm talking real coffee, not instant.)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Google is definently more clearer for where I live.
- rick2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Im from the uk and yahoo maps is just terrible for uk coverage.
I have to say google is spot on with there maps and tools to be honest. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Does yahoo maps even implement the satellite view? It seemed to be the quickest way to blank the window
- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually ... although they use the same street data, they can potentially provide different directions depending on how the service provider decides to use the street ranking data in its algorithms.
But frankly I find the Google map graphics much clearer and cleaner than Yahoo's ... - clickr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Till now a google maps fan, now its yahoo all the way..for the better API.
Recently I got totally delayed coz the stupid MS STreets & Maps 2006 had horribly out-of-date info. Yahoo shows the latest highways, MARKS the highways more often, whereas the google api with telatlas is *****, but google maps is recent (why on earth would the have this difference...thumbs down to them for that)...and google maps never marks the highways based on your view. When you zoom in real close, it loses lot of info. - Qoogirl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5But isn't Yahoo! Maps (the one featured here) beta? Which means it's still in progress.
- Zreitan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've found the google gets confused about directions a lot, it can find one address and then another..but try and find directions between the two and it forgets its self..
- ahatter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yahoo maps > google maps
- CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yahoo has the same problem with all of Europe and I haven't checked other parts of the world except the US where it had okay coverage.
Since I'm european Yahoo maps is completely worthless to me.
As for Google Maps .. it's okay for looking up streets in other countries but for my own country I prefer more local services that offer more acurate data and much better image detail (for satellite images) - craig552uk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yahoo maps is horribly out of date. It shows the road system and train lines in leicester from nearly 20 years ago! The inner and outer ring roads don't feature on Yahoo, and it shows two train lines running through the city, one of these was demolished in the late 80's. Also, there isn't sufficient data to zoom in to a useful level. Not that it'd be that useful anyway, with such out dated maps.
Google maps is far better.
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.html#52.64056351447151,-1.1309051513671875,7,0 - jamesvaughn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1google's hybrid satellite/streets maps rock, but mapquest still owns for usability (i.e. google's zooming interface blows). I don't yahoo.
- Navid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a Treo 700p and google maps acts up all the time. Yahoo maps is straight-forward and get the job done. So Yahoo Maps is the better choice for me.
- pbarnes7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google's maps are a bit better but Yahoo's satellite data for my area of central Vermont is MUCH better. Like 10x the detail!
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is useful!
- chernyshev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool. I see you guys are enjoying it ;)
I'm open for comments and suggestions. - joevill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even though I have always been a Yahoo user, I have to say that I love Google Maps a lot more!
- AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google Maps for a long time (and probably still) was a one-trick pony. It had a really good interactive mapping system that no other site could match. It's really probably the catalyst for all Web 2.0ish technology we see out now.
However, as far as depth of features Yahoo! Maps is considerably better. Until recently Google's API didn't even offer geocoding services. Yahoo! has offered this for a while, as well as other useful information like local listings and traffic. And you had more display options with Yahoo! It becomes a strain on the browser rendering to display more than one map with Google, but you can render several images using Yahoo!'s API.
Ultimately, the best approach was to mash Yahoo!'s information with Google's front-end. Even that may no longer be necessary if Yahoo! is working on its map interactivity.
What you people are mostly commenting on is the accuracy of the map and satellite data, which neither Google nor Yahoo! produce. If you're going to compare the two, you should do so based on their APIs, not whose mapping data they license. - ajcates, on 01/20/2009, -0/+1this will be cool in ten years, check out what places looked like 10 years ago, then look at them today, beacuse its fun to go around to all the places that the maps have differnt, and then look at the differnce
- evoix9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is weird, does anyone know who has the newer sat images? Look at this picture of portland int. airport.
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.html#45.58816651534765,-122.58199453353882,1,1
Google has totally different image than yahoo. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I said the exact same thing you just did earlier and was modded down so +mod for you so at least the message gets out there!
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