Yahoo! has announced the service closure of several of its Maps APIs starting September 13, 2011. The restructure, according to Yahoo!, is due to its reprioritizing of its “current portfolio of mapping products to refocus on a great consumer Mapping and Local Search experience.” Developers are encouraged to continue to […]
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GIS Software
State of Mapping APIs
Adam duVander, executive editor of ProgrammableWeb, looks at changes coming from the “old guard” of Yahoo!, MapQuest, and Google, and reviews the advances of some of the newcomers to the web mapping field. (via The Map Room) Though the map itself continues to be important, other geographic data is having […]
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Online Mapping Sued
What do Expedia, Google, Microsoft, the Washington Post, Ticketmaster, Travelocity, Tripadvisor, Yahoo, Yellow Pages, Yelp, and Zagat Survey have in common? They are all being sued by Webmap Technologies LLC for infringement of patent 6,772,142 called Method and Apparatus for Collecting and Expressing Geographically Referenced Data. Read more: Google, Microsoft, […]
Maps and Cartography
Online Mapping Scrambles after Tanker Spill
The recent disaster that melted a critical portion of San Francisco’s highway infrastructure had more than just commuters scrambling. Within two days, many of the major online mapping sites had modified their driving directions to circumvent the now closed overpass. Rachel Konrad from the Associated Press reported that: Yahoo took […]