Yahoo Maps is Coming to Town
From Techcrunch :
An all new Yahoo Maps launches tonight at 9 pm PST.
Ispoke with Paul Levine, the General Manager of Local, Jeremy Kreitler,a Senior Product Manager of Maps and Local, and Diana Vincent, a PRManager, earlier today about Yahoo Maps.
Unlike Google andMicrosoft maps, Yahoo has chosen to use Flash over AJAX in building itsnew service, and they’ve added new features that are not foundanywhere else. They’ve also done some things to reduce the hassleof creating, sharing and printing maps online.
It’s built with on the new MacroMedia Flex platform for flash, something we’ve been hearing a lot about lately.
Looks interesting. I just played around with it a bit. Live Traffic – very nice. Fast interface. Uses scroll-wheel (unlike google). As I said before – comeptition is good.
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