SFist: Yahoo Maps Digging A Little Deeper Into SF

justin

Wed, 16 May 2007 16:12:40 -0800

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.

Austin

Wed, 16 May 2007 15:22:53 -0800

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.

Austin

Wed, 16 May 2007 13:26:59 -0800

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.