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- rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Still got some work to do, but it does look like a promising upgrade.
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Huh, I didn't even know Yahoo did maps.
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Are you new to the Internet? Yahoo Maps has been the leading online map provider for many years - and still is. Google is gaining ground since their recent release, but still has a long way to go. (http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2005/08/yahoo-mapquest-cold-smokin-google-maps.html) - newezra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, it's a little bit slow and clunky, but give it time. This was created using Flex 1.5 and is based on the older Flash 7 player. If/when they upgrade to Flex 2.0 and Flash Player 8.5 you'll see a HUGE, dramatic performance increase. The one thing I'm thrilled about though is the great Flash/AS, Javascript, Flex API they provide for you.
http://ws1.inf.scd.yahoo.com/maps/flash/
As a designer/developer at www.2advanced.com I know there's several upcoming projects where I can use the API to tie it in seamlessly into an application.
If you want to follow the flash development you can check out the Macromedia Blogs Yahoo Maps smart category:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/index.cfm?query=bySmartCategory&smartCategoryId=25&smartCategoryName=Yahoo%20Maps&smartCategoryKey=5745A4B3-0FD8-86BC-DC77E150209112CA
You could also check out http://www.flashearth.com/ for a Flash version of Google/MSN Maps. - orb_nsc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Works fine in Opera for me. I don't understand all the seething hatred for Yahoo. I love Google stuff as much as anyone else, but why do so many think it's a BAD thing for Yahoo to be improving their services? Do you really want Google to someday be the ONLY provider of these sort of things? And do you think they'd have a lot of motivation to improve them if they did? (And have you noticed that all of this stuff is free?)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Full-screen interactive Flash ==> Will always be slow on many computers.
I bet they only chose to use Flash to allow them to do zooming. If so, they figured out the one fault with Google Maps -- you can't zoom in and out quickly.
For this reason, I much prefer to just download Google Earth and use THAT. It works perfectly fine, gives me the same directions (with more up-to-date satellite images than the site version) and I can not only zoom around, but rotate it and everything else. Very useful.
Google Earth > Google Maps > Yahoo Maps - lakah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2People get religious about Google. I like Google but Yahoo has been there since the beginning and hung tough through the bad times. Good to see that they haven't gotten complacent. I digg it!
- blee456, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1got a "live traffic" button... the one thing i always thought Google needed. Couldn't get any data out of the feature though.
- jodamiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like the multiple-point routing feature.
- ebenthurston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1waypoints for driving directions. NOBODY else has that.
- mercano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its intersting that Google used JavaScript for this and Yahoo went with Flash.
Notice that the your browser's back button steps you through each movement of the map you make. A good thing, other then it fills up you back history with a million Yahoo entries. - Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not slow for me. I thought it was great.
- groupofone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google Maps =! Yahoo Maps despite the similarity in images used for map construction.
Any numbnuts with a bit of observational skill would realize Navteq provides data for both companies (and MSN, and MapQuest, and RandMcNally, and... nearly EVERYONE!). Throw in TeleWest, GDT, MapTuit, and AND for some additional data and you have your 'differentiated' services. If someone wants exclusive rights to the majority of US-based data, just buy Navteq. Chump change for Google @ current valuation of $3.9B.
When moving the map around, the Flash interface is much slower on screen refresh than Google's AJAX/js implementation. Traffic works pretty well for the ATL. I'll be using this every day before hitting the road. Beats the hell out of listening to morning radio.
1 Yahoo! Maps 41.00%
2 MapQuest 33.40%
3 Google Maps 9.45%
4 MSN MapPoint 4.72%
5 Rand McNally 2.07%
6 Maps.com 1.23%
7 MapsOnUs.com 1.02%
8 NationMaster.com 0.68%
9 US Local Maps 0.63%
10 MSN TerraServer 0.50%
(Source: ZDNet Research, 7/23/05)
While it's not listed, Maps24.com does have some /slick/ features. Select a zoom area (right click n drag), points of interest, drag n pan. As good if not better than Google Maps and Yahoo Maps. - hcrak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Live Traffic works in Atlanta
- kingamoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1O.K. I love this thing. With the exception of the sat. images, it's better than Google's.
- nugge7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whoa. Awsome.
- Allanon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Live traffic works in Los Angeles, California. If you zoom in semi close you will also see road construction.
- raboo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i dugg.. traffic worked great in my area which is the foothills of the sierra nevada around lake tahoe .
i prefer this to anything google has to offer and this is only beta - xtremesniper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's fast for me. I suppose it was slow earlier because of the digg effect. Regardless, I like it so far. I wish it had a satellite feature but hey I bet thats coming soon. So far I like it a lot.
- kryptogrowl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1very cool.
I like how it zooms with the scroll wheel. - oxigen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty cool I like the flash interface, it' provides a lot of features which google maps doesn't have yet. I do find the slowness a little annoying. But this is a great tool for traveling, or finding stuff in a new city.
- djtripp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Slow to load at first, but I like it. Worked on Safari too. If you check out live traffic for Los Angeles, wow, it's pretty cool. It's a good beta v1.
- Disodium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like the traffic feature, google maps is still better though
- schrags, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Laggy, but i'm liking the traffic feature.
- Tech_Junkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL the GOOGLE bots speak. SLOW Just like everything that GOOGLE has released in the past 3 months. Lets not forget that rocket of a product they call the google reader and oh yeah base.google.com you are lucky if you even get to it.
- bnoble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just love watching Yahoo & Co. play catch-up to Google. So ***** predictable.
- version30.x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good upgrade, but still minor league compared to how Google plays with maps and sat images...
- m4v1s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0kinda cool, like the PIP window
hell on my processor and not fast at all - schlagzeuger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pretty lame.... google kicks its ass in just about every way. I guess this would have been cool a few years ago.
- dm1030, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Using Opera displays the Yahoo logo but nothing else on the screen. I think I'll stick with Google for general maps and the old version of Yahoo for driving directions.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I still like yahoo, but damn that is a painful interface.
- jump4jay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had zero problems with the speed of Yahoo maps. In fact, I find it quite fluid. But overall I must say that I'm sticking with Google Maps as well, maybe I'm just used to the familiarity of Gmaps, I dunno, they just feel better.
- daveatdts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can see some "Live Traffic" around New York City... Nothing great just shows some on going construction areas to avoid.
- nugge7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And stop bitchin' on how slow it is -- It's on BETA, you numbnuts!
- Hops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I cant find Europe or Asia or Africa or South America or where i live. I hope when they leave Beta they invent the rest of the world!
- binarypower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too slow, no sat/hybrid map, memory hog. No thanks.
- latca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice features, but really really slow.
- thingsimade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm shocked that nobody has commented on its total lack of international maps. To me that seems like the biggest gap. I've never used googlemaps for the US and never will so I certainly wont bother using Yahoo maps.
- RichM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Slow, and the live traffic didn't work. If those two things were fixed it would be awesome.
- TGDuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No words visible on the interface with Firefox using Debian. I am sticking with Google.
- dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's OK. flash is definitely an interesting choice. we'll see how it progresses. i'm not blown away. i'm sure the implementation is something next to hell, but for now, google feels more lightweight and easy to use.
i'm rooting for them though. - joetcochran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's so slow because each map change is a page refresh. The AJAX that Google uses does not require an entire page refresh, it simply loads the appropriate image requested via Javascript.
I concur that Flash IS an interesting choice. - leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It works a lot like Map24:
http://www.us.map24.com/
Map24's scrolling is smoother, though, and doesn't require Flash. - jhuynh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ummm tried it, wasn't impressed. It wouldn't find my street unless I capitalized it and it takes forever to do searches. uhhhhh that is very bad programming IMHO if it can't handle the difference between Street and street saying that street doesn't exist until you finally capitalize it...
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, this kicks the crap out of anything Mapquest or Google currently have. I love the live traffic feature. Zoom in could use some work, but otherwise no complaints. I love it!
- beaversit.com, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0On three different occassions, Yahoo Maps has left me facing roads or connections to roads that no longer existed. I could care less about anything else. They need to pay up for better map data. Google maps are far more accurate. And MapQuest can bite me. Their map engine pissed me off about five years ago with their awful web interface.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0won't find my house
- Crazen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think some of the google fanboys are finding things to complain about. I'm sorry But I'm sick and tired of the blind putzs that cheer things like Google Talk and Google office that are out-right other people's work. And in the case of Google talk it's implemented in an inferior way.
It would be cool if yahoo could get sat image layers, topographic layers, and non-freeway/highway routes (I used mapquest just for this feature). Although this interface seems far superior to me than googles.
As far as playing catchup, the only place google is currently leading is probably search and their stock valuation. Yahoo is a lot more than search. And IMO, I think yahoo search is better than google's because the first few pages of results on yahoo aren't search engine optimized spam. - ggidggid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0errr what about the rest of the world?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WHo is this yahoo!
- NickelSax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Like all the online maps I've looked at... my hometown is incorrect
It shows roads (unamed) that have never existed, doesn't show some roads that have existed for about 10 years, while also showing other roads that went in at the same time... Microsoft Mappoint 2004 at least seems to have the correct roads (though a few odd fragments of roads that don't exist. And like all online maps, it shows the longer way out of town, while mappoint showest the fastest way out... These online maps are great, but they still have a long way to go both in provideding the best dirrections and in getting acurate map data from the map data companies... - berzerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if they're gonna use flash, might as well vectorize the images and text
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