Much of what we do in the Local search space is related to what our brethren in Web Search are also doing every day around Yahoo!. So, we ma...

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Like the London Tube Map, recording and retrieval of locations and their relationships doesn’t always have to do with their Lat/Lon. There ...

Continue Reading Abstracting Spatial Relationships with the Yahoo! Internet Location Platform

One of the most requested updates at the Yahoo! Developer Network is to upgrade the Maps API’s to support Actionscript 3.  In fact, over...

Continue Reading Yahoo! Maps Flash API’s updated to AS3

August 29th, 2006 was an exciting day for us; it was the day after Flickr first announced their Geotagging feature using the Yahoo! Maps API, and th...

Continue Reading Ridiculously cool upgrade to Flickr maps and Places

Real estate is the ultimate local business. That’s why our friends at Yahoo! Real Estate are always focused on making their products as lo...

Continue Reading Getting the Local Scoop on Home Loans Through Yahoo! Real Estate

As mentioned in the May 8, 2007 post, the Yahoo! Travel team has been working on a map-on-map feature which enriches our Yahoo! Maps by overlaying independent map images to add more details and context to our base maps....

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As many of you know, Where 2.0 was earlier this week and Digital Earth 5 is next week. Bridging the gap, Yahoo! is hosting WhereCamp, a free ...

Continue Reading Calling all ‘Maps and Local’ Hackers

Congratulations to the Yahoo! Real Estate team on their newly updated Home Values center that launched today!  They’ve used the Yahoo! Maps AJAX API as well as the Ya...

Continue Reading Yahoo! Real Estate Updates Home Values Search with Maps and Local

Congratulations to the Yahoo! Travel team on their latest update! Big props for the cool new way in which they have used the Yahoo! Maps AJAX API i...

Continue Reading Yahoo! Travel Adds a new Map-on-Map Feature

Have you ever considered moving to a new home and found yourself wondering which neighborhoods would have the best schools for your children? We...

Continue Reading Finding the right school has never been easier!