Comments on: Yahoo! Maps: drag ‘em, search ‘em, hack ‘em

By: ocnsss

ocnsss — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:22:58 +0000

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By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:12:37 +0000

Jay,

You can quickly search for local content by just typing “Safeway San Francisco” into Yahoo Search, either from the website or the toolbar.

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:09:54 +0000

Mac users should upgrade to Flash player 8; it works much better with all Flash apps, especially the new yahoo maps.

By: Christian Watson

Christian Watson — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:15:30 +0000

Great job fellas! I’m impressed at how easy the API is to use, even for non-programmers like me. Finally someone is giving Google a run for their money.

By: SV Sleuth

SV Sleuth — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:09:20 +0000

Any explaination for the listing of "the dude's fish store" on the address of Google? Who is the guy on the (Google) phone number 650-6235633 and what does Yahoo have against him? http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2005/11/yahoo_maps_pran.html

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:41:52 +0000

Very nice!!!

Few things missing here are anyone would love to have

1) The ability to search for business locations without having to get to a map of the location. For eg: If I want to search for Safeway, San Francisco I have to get a map of San Francisco and then search for flowers. It isnt a one step process.

2) Also if business locations aren’t available on the viewable area, but outside of it, maps just says nothing available. It would be ideal to list all the nearest business locations within a certain radius and auto dragging to the nearest one.

By: Robert Oschler

Robert Oschler — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:50:36 +0000

As one of the Yahoo! Maps 2.0 mashup authors on the applications page, Upcoming Events, I want to let my fellow programmers know that the new API is gigantic pearl in the Web 2.0 API ocean, and the support that you get from Yahoo! is nothing short of stunning. I wrote an integrated Flickr Contacts Map application using the Flickr API and the old Yahoo! Maps web services API, and the new API simply blows the old API away.

In contrast to many of the Web API’s out there that force you craft an XML file and shoehorn your application into that claustrophobic paradigm, Yahoo has opened the doors to customization wide open by allowing you to integrate their functionality directly into *your* application. In addition, the API’s are logically crafted with great obvious care paid to allowing the programmer to add value where they want to, without the burden of doing setup work where they don’t.

A public thanks to Yahoo! for providing the new Yahoo! maps API to the developer community and for working so hard to make it a killer platform for application development.

Thanks,
Robert

P.S. – To the understandbly cynical readers out there I will point out now that I am not affiliated with Yahoo! in any way and that there is no profit motive in my obviously overwhelmingly positive comments in this comment/post.

By: search-engines-web.com

search-engines-web.com — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:06:51 +0000

Isn’t it interesting that the term AJAX was just coined in Feb. ‘05, and already has become a Standard.

Yahoo Maps’ Traffic Feature is helpful and practical.

Unlike Google, Y! is not allowing real-time movement of locations by dragging.

Is “AJAX” being used yet, or is this server side DHTML?

Many locations typed into the search bar are returning a “no found” reponse, but the same addresses can be accessed by Zooming In on the location – so perhaps that bug could be worked out ASAP.

>>> Your search for ???? could not be found.
Here is the closest match in this city.

By: Tommi

Tommi — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:00:01 +0000

I must say the Yahoo map service seems really nice. What caught my attention was the way the mouse scroll is captured for zooming in and out of the map. nice work.

By: gsyi

gsyi — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:22:33 +0000

Looks nice. But it´s a little bit similar to msn virtual earth…