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Summer cleanup at Yahoo! Maps

13 Aug. 2008 | Author: AWo | german

Yahoo! has updated its USA maps and route portal Yahoo! Maps, offering some new features. Through this, the integration of local services has been improved, said Product Manager Gus Maldonado in the Yahoo! Geo Technologies Blog.

Yahoo! MapsThe route planner has become more user-friendly, with the left column with the route description has been widened, the font enlarged and thus made more legible.  The Print View page has also been revised, allowing individual stages of the route, to be hidden in the event that their content is already known, thus saving paper and ink.  For each change of direction/turn on the route, it is now possible to display a detail map.  This feature now brings interactivity to the Print Version, by allowing zooming in or out, shifting the area (by mouse) to adjust its view ‘window’ or to display different areas.  And these improvements are only just the beginning, according to Maldonado, who promises a further update in 2008.

Yahoo! actually does not limit its special map and route planner portal to the USA.  This can also be found in Germany under the name Yahoo! Lokale Suche Routenplaner.  It is however still in beta-phase and is nowhere near (or at least not yet) as user-friendly as the USA-version.

Summer cleanup at Yahoo! Maps
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