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yahoo has satellite maps!!!

jeremy.zawodny.com — Finally it's public knowledge!!

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  • irie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How many times do I have to tell you son, DO-NOT -LINK- TO -BLOG

    Plus it's a dupe ... Hey I get called on 'em too
  • jsjohnst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Never told me even once, but here is the proper link:

    http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/

    And here is the blog post by a fellow colleague who compared Gmaps side by side with Yahoo maps (incase some admin fixes the link):

    http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006622.html
  • jsjohnst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting that it didn't find any dupes when I posted the article (and I didn't see any either). Oh well!
  • irie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ok- your first post is dupe ,,, that is why I dis-owned you

    http://digg.com/technology/Global_Satellite_imagery_to_Yahoo_Maps_beta



  • CelticStorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They redact some of the stupidest things!!! But can verify the information I LOOKED AT (Houston), was newer than Google's. However, Yahoo doesn't seem to have the higher resolution.

    I'm not saying this is world wide, but....

    WOW, I just looked at a little small town in Louisiana (Natchitoches) and the images are WAY older than Google's - like LandSat old!!!!

    Still no solid leader....must use two tools to get all the information! But it definitely beats not having it at all!!!!
  • CelticStorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To add to previous - another small town in Texas (Marshall) images are much better in Yahoo than Google. I thought maybe it was a small town thing, but I guess not!
  • waldo21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice! It has some areas in high res (comparatively speaking) that google only has in super low-res green and brown blotches. A little competition is always good.
  • jord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just noticed this... and it makes me love googlemaps even more...
    click a whole bunch of locations on yahoomaps... try to find your house or something... then hit the back button...
    hit it again... and again.. and again... dammit yahoo.... fix this crap!
    (using FF at least)
  • jsjohnst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just to clarify, the entire US should be shown in 1m imagery. This doesn't beat Google/MSN on their highest zooms, but it beats them overall on uniformity across the US. Another thing which Yahoo is great at is global imagery outside the US. Yahoo! Maps have 15m imagery for the rest of the world. Here is a blog post by the Maps team with more details:

    http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000286.html
  • mjlawless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey guys.

    So this first release is just to get us started with a baseline. We're one of the first major companies to boot-strap this (MS==Terraserver, Google==Keyhole, ASK=GlobeXplorer) and our out-the-gate product gives us something to build on.

    Keep looking for higher resolution data, a ton of international stuff, and I think even now you'll find that we're pretty competitive in terms of overall data freshness, USA coverage, and visual quality.... Also, our international medium resolution is pretty good IMHO.... not to mention the international global maps. Competitively, I think we've got some pretty good points even now, and when we pile-on, you should start seeing increasingly better and better stuff.

    Thanks for checking us out.

    Cheers!

    Michael Lawless
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