Similarly to features offered by Google Maps, USA-users of Yahoo! Local Maps are now able to adjust routes according to their own needs or preferences.

Michael Lawless, Product Manager of Yahoo! Maps, announced this new addition, in a post in the Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog.

Users of Yahoo! Local Maps, who generate a routing to a specified destination, are now able to change the specifics of the route easily, using ‘drag and drop’ technology. Using a ‘click and drag’ action with mouse or trackpad, one can move segments of the route to different parts of the displayed map, according to the needs of the moment. Especially practical is the small ‘live’ display window, showing the changes to travel time and distance resulting from the changed routing, and comparing them to the originally suggested Yahoo! routing.

As opposed to Yahoo! Local (where local search is the featured service), Yahoo! Local Maps is now the map/cartographic portal of Yahoo! However this service also allows local search queries. According to Lawless, this specific function has also been updated. Beside the address result, the local search within Yahoo! Local Maps now displays additional information about the search result, including photos, user ratings and user descriptions.

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