Yahoo Maps
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Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and local reviews powered by Yelp. It was shut down on June 30, 2015. For a limited time until 2019, Yahoo! Maps could be accessed in the United States on Yahoo Search, albeit powered by Here WeGo. However, that is no longer possible.
Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and local reviews powered by Yelp. It was shut down on June 30, 2015. For a limited time until 2019, Yahoo! Maps could be accessed in the United States on Yahoo Search, albeit powered by Here WeGo. However, that is no longer possible.
History
Yahoo! Maps originally launched circa 1998. The data was provided by Vicinity Corporation. A new Adobe Flash-based version called Yahoo! Local Maps was released in Beta in November 20051. In April 2006, aerial and satellite views were added. On May 16, 2007, Yahoo! released a new map style designed by the cartography company Cartifact. Data and imagery were also supplied by Cartifact, including shaded relief showing land surface features and land cover coloring indicating major environmental zones. At some point before May 2007, maps of India were added to Yahoo Search, which is a non-Flash interface to Yahoo Maps. In addition to reasonably detailed Indian coverage (not available through its Yahoo Search engine), to allow users to browse/search within Yahoo!. In May 2010, Yahoo! reached a deal with Nokia whereby Nokia's mapping service (later known as Here) would power Yahoo! Maps. This came into effect in October 2011. In 2014, a mobile site for Yahoo! Maps was released. On June 4, 2015, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Maps would be shut down, along with Yahoo! Pipes, at the end of the month.
See also
Comparison of web map services Traffic Message Channel
References
External links
Yahoo! Maps Yahoo! Local Yahoo! Local and Maps Blog Yahoo! Maps API Documentation Yahoo! Maps API Gallery (older)
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