Subject: ‘Yahoo!’
| June 16, 2011So Long, Yahoo! Map APIsInternet MappingYahoo! has announced the service closure of several of its Maps APIs starting September 13, 2011. The restructure, according to Yahoo!, is due to its reprioritizing of its “current portfolio of mapping products to refocus on a great consumer Mapping and Local Search experience.” Developers are encouraged to continue to use Yahoo!’s Placefinder API for geocoding, ... read more September 8, 2010 State of Mapping APIsInternet MappingAdam duVander, executive editor of ProgrammableWeb, looks at changes coming from the “old guard” of Yahoo!, MapQuest, and Google, and reviews the advances of some of the newcomers to the web mapping field. (via The Map Room) Though the map itself continues to be important, other geographic data is having a larger impact. Providers are making ... read more November 9, 2009 Online Mapping SuedInternet MappingWhat do Expedia, Google, Microsoft, the Washington Post, Ticketmaster, Travelocity, Tripadvisor, Yahoo, Yellow Pages, Yelp, and Zagat Survey have in common? They are all being sued by Webmap Technologies LLC for infringement of patent 6,772,142 called Method and Apparatus for Collecting and Expressing Geographically Referenced Data. Read more: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo others sued over mapping software ... read more May 3, 2007Online Mapping Scrambles after Tanker SpillGeographyThe recent disaster that melted a critical portion of San Francisco’s highway infrastructure had more than just commuters scrambling. Within two days, many of the major online mapping sites had modified their driving directions to circumvent the now closed overpass. Rachel Konrad from the Associated Press reported that: Yahoo took nearly 39 hours to ... read more |
