Yahoo! Maps Updated With New Data and Functionality!
We’ve been working hard all winter long, and today, we’ve rolled out an update to Yahoo! Maps that delivers a number of improvements including; new neighborhood data, expanded worldwide coverage, and stylistic improvements.
Some of the improvements you might notice as you test-drive our updated Yahoo! Maps include:
- New Neighborhood Data at lower zoom levels with:
- > 300 cities with new neighborhood data added throughout North America, from Palo Alto, to Chicago, to Toronto, etc.
- > 12,000 new neighborhoods added, from “Lower East Side” (New York, Milwaukee, Bridgeport) to “Lower Collegetown” (Ithaca)
- Expanded Worldwide Coverage with much improved coverage, especially throughout Eastern Europe
- New POI information - highlighting Schools, Rest areas, Ski Resorts, etc.
Additional shaded relief levels worldwide - City label density increased for better usability
- Style improvements such as Hybrid Road and Label colors adjusted for better legibility
- Lighter map tiles – with an average of 30-60% reduction in size
Stay tuned for continued updates and improvements throughout 2008. Check it out and let us know what you think!
Cheers!
Gus Maldonado - Sr. Product Manager, Yahoo! Geo/Maps
March 6th, 2008 at 8:45 am
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this is what i like to see, performance and efficiency improvements. the new update is very fast, tiles seem to render faster. good work.
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Great!
Btw any reason why you guys are not doing parallel loading of images using multiple subdomains ? ( I see all tiles are getting loaded from http://us.maps1.yimg.com/us.tile.yimg.com/ ) Should make it faster.
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Thanks
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I’ve also been told that existing maps using this API have to explicitly call the new 3.8 library to take advantage of these new upgrades, as such http://api.maps.yahoo.com/ajaxymap?v=3.8&appid=
Thanks again!
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