We’re Moving!
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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More Traffic on Yahoo! Maps
Today Yahoo! Maps releases an expansion to our real-time traffic offering, increasing both coverage and comprehensiveness. In terms of coverage, w...

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Abstracting Spatial Relationships with the Yahoo! Internet Location Platform
Like the London Tube Map, recording and retrieval of locations and their relationships doesn’t always have to do with their Lat/Lon. There ...

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Searching on a map just got a whole lot easier on Yahoo! Local
We have seen countless users struggle to find what they’re looking for in a specific area or neighborhood using current local search and on...

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See More on Yahoo! Maps
The Yahoo! Maps team is happy to announce the single biggest imagery update on maps.yahoo.com since the program inception.  While we’ve...

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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; ...

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Yahoo! Maps Flash API’s updated to AS3
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...

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Follow your Favorite Freeway
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, us insiders know that the difference between Hwy 101 and Hwy 280 is like the difference between the mall ...

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Ridiculously cool upgrade to Flickr maps and Places
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...

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India: Click first, then drive
Now, in India, we drive a little differently. We drive on the left. Or the right, if the left is occupied. We also give directions a little differently. “Th...

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