Yahoo! Maps is a one of the very useful services provided by Yahoo! It is a free mapping portal which is available online. It is a fast growing online service in recent times. It's full fledged version is released in the year 2007.
Services Available
- Yahoo Maps offers maps of streets and the directions for driving for the countries Canada and the United States of America.
- The traffic incident markers and the highway routes and conditions can be viewed on this site.
- You can get the driving directions for any area you want to drive to. They are displayed on a map which can be downloaded if you want. The links to the streets you want can be book marked and can be viewed at any time you want.
- Smart View helps in finding the business and other interests in the area you are looking for. They give phone numbers and addresses for them too.
- You can store the commonly searched street addresses and this helps you in searching for them whenever you want instead of typing it again.
Yahoo Local Maps
Recently, Yahoo! Local Maps is made available which offers maps with a significant interactivity with the internet user. It has new improved features making it a Rich Internet Application. Few features of this service are
- It offers draggable maps with which you can drag the maps and view them comfortably. Besides this, there is an option for zooming with which you can get the information more clearly. This zoom option can be controlled with the mouse scroll.
- The multi-point driving directions option helps in entering many addresses and recording for driving directions.
- A number of widgets are available making it easy to navigate through this site. Map type controller, navigator, and zoom option are some of the widgets.
- You can find the addresses and phone numbers for a particular business or other category store with the help of "Find On The Map" box. You just need to type the name in the box and click search and you get the relevant results.
- You can get the maps for other areas outside the USA and Canada. You can also get the satellite images for any area in the world.
- Live traffic feature, address books and phone number feature are also available.
- Yahoo! Maps Web Service
- Bloggers or website owners can embed the Yahoo!Maps feature in their blog/website with the help of Yahoo! Maps Developer APIs.
- There are different options for featuring this option like the Flash APIs, the Ajax APIs, and Simple APIs.
