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Yahoo! Internet Location Platform (New Geocoder) New!

“The Yahoo! Internet Location Platform provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth. The purpose in creating the Internet Location Platform is to provide the Yahoo! Geographic Developer Community with the vocabulary and grammar to describe the world’s geography in an unequivocal, permanent, and language-neutral manner.

The Internet Location Platform is designed to facilitate spatial interoperability and geographic discovery; users can traverse the spatial hierarchy, identify the geography relevant to their users and their business, and in turn, unambiguously geotag, geotarget, and geolocate data across the Web.”

Basically this is a Geocoder for Places across the World. The accuracy is fairly precise and the easy to understand.

Here is an example:
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q(’10%20downing%20street%20london%20uk’)

and also you can geocode UK Postcodes - full UK Postcodes!

http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q(’SW1A2AA’)
*link fixed

Centroid is the postcode centre. So 51.503201, -0.12617

Checking… on the map.

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

Rate Limits
Currently, users of the Internet Location Platform are limited to 50k queries per day.

Terms of Use (Please check this if you intend using this service with other non Yahoo Applications)
http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/api/api-2140.html

Geeky Stuff

“In simple terms, the Service allows you to look up the unique identifier - called the Where on Earth ID, or WOEID - for almost any named place on the Earth; it also allows you to resolve a WOEID you have received from a third party - such as Fire Eagle™ or Upcoming - to the place it represents.

The API is accessed via HTTP GET; the following examples can be cut-and-paste into a web browser to view the results:”
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

Mapperz

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SchMap - Interactive Maps and Guides
Maps and guides that are interactive and pull up information based on the area that you are exploring.

“Exploring a Schmap Guide is a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slide shows for places of interest.”

Using Yahoo Maps, and joining real-time data feeds to gives the users up to date information.

There is also a desktop application that can download
Schmap 2.0 (desktop) you can:

• Browse this Schmap Guide on your PC, online or offline.
• View Schmap Guides for 200 worldwide destinations.
• Bookmark places of interest, plan trips and take virtual tours.
• Custom print your own full-color travel guides.
• Publish and share schmapplets with your favourite places

or use the Schmapplets for your website which uses Google maps.

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Jump to Map (Beta)

Create Human Friendly links (urls) to maps.

Short, email-safe.
Readable by humans.
Never expire.
Always free.

Web sites such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and others, let you enter a street address and create nice maps and long links to these maps.
* It’s inconvenient to copy-and-paste these long links.
* These long links can get [...]

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Yahoo! Go 3.0 (Beta) with Maps

Yahoo! Go 3.0 services:

oneSearch
Yahoo! Calendar
Yahoo! Address Book
Yahoo! Local
Yahoo! Maps
Yahoo! News
Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Entertainment
Yahoo! Weather
Flickr
Yahoo! Mail

“Yahoo! Go 3.0 connects your device to these Yahoo! services in real time. You can manage your contacts on the device and changes are synchronized with your Yahoo! account. The application uses widgets [...]

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Yell Maps - New Features

MultiMap Based Mapping
Microsoft Virtual Earth Birds Eye View Mode
Points of Interest (POI)

Car parks
Cash dispensers
WiFi Access
Railway stations
Speed Cameras
Blue Badge parking
Motorbike parking
Public toilets
Tube stations
Bus stops (Includes Bus Routes for that location)
Traffic news
Bicycle parking
Taxi ranks
River taxis

Note: POI Features are available in the Birds Eye View - Helps visually to users and builds [...]

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Yahoo Maps have made a change to the directions function. You can now re-route by dragging the original route (similar to google maps directions).

Try it at
http://maps.yahoo.co.uk/ (UK Centred)
or
http://maps.yahoo.com/ (US Centered)

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