Posted on: November 4, 2005 in Miscellany
Yahoo! maps move forward
Yahoo! has released a slew of new mapping stuff. Rasmus points out that although the map site itself is nice looking, the killer feature is that (unlike google maps) the geocoder api is exposed. Rasmus also goes on to show a few tricks on using the new api.
It still looks like this is only for the US though, so if you need to include Canadian locations in your application, you might want to tie in services from sites like geocoder.ca. I’m also not sure how much easier Yahoo!’s service is to use then the geocoder at geocoder.com. I might play with this in some of the mapping stuff I’ve been doing with Drupal.
Speaking of neat applications that use the new Yahoo! Map API, make sure to check out Chris’s design work on this cool train finder site. It almost makes me want to move to San Fran just so I can use it…