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According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it hopes will prove more accurate, scalable, and user friendly--including better print-outs.
Of note to us, visitors to Yahoo Maps, supposedly starting today, will have access to more detailed renditions of neighborhoods and buildings in New York City and San Francisco.
We called up the pictured map as a sample, but didn't yet notice any change from the few times we've used the service before. Of course, we imagine maps like this are far more useful to and used by people that actually, you know, drive from time to time (i.e., not us). We do think that little "construction" icon is cool though.
Has anybody that's used this before noticed a difference?
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The neighborhood renditions are shown in your screen grab which has South Beach labeled (don't know how new that is). You have to zoom in two the last two levels to see buildings, some of which are labeled ("One California," "Crocker Galleria"). Still seems like they are playing catch up with Google though, which already has traffic overlays and 3D buildings.
There also appear to be a number of deficiencies in the neighborhood names, including a mislabeling of the Haight ("Height Ashbury"), the Sunset not continuing south beyond Ortega, and outer neighborhoods like Parkmerced, Glen Park and Visitacion Valley not being named.
Not to mention their fancy scrollable map relies on Flash, instead of more efficient Ajax.
I've used maps.yahoo.com for ages and stubbornly stuck to the old style interface cuz it's hella faster than the ajax-widgie. My main complaint about the new version is that "sf" no longer works for abbreviating the City. What the hell? Totally unusable now.