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Yahoo! Maps is now multilingual

The USA version of Yahoo! Maps, the local search, map and route portal operated by Yahoo! is now speaking in German, among other languages!

In December 2008, Yahoo! expanded the international coverage of its USA-version (see our post), and as they announced then, 2009 would follow with further innovations.

The changes have started to be implemented: since an update in February, users are able to display the Yahoo! Maps website in several different languages. This was announced by Yahoo! staffer Gus Maldonado in the Yahoo! Geo Technologies Blog. Languages can be selected using the “Language” menu item [surprise!] on the right side of the map view, offering French, Italian, Spanish and German, alongside the original English. Further one is now able to display route distances in either miles or kilometers.

However, this service is not yet really implemented, for example, for Germany. The route planner for Germany recognizes a tiny selection of locations, and local search doesn’t function at all for Germany. For German-speaking Yahoo! users, it is better to use Yahoo!’s local search German-version de.local.yahoo.com and the German-version route planner de.routeplanner.yahoo.com.

Yahoo! Maps is now multilingual

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