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Big, Beautiful Mobile Maps using the Yahoo Map Image API

Full screen maps are now included on the business details page in Berry411, replacing the small Mapquest thumbnails that were there before. These mobile-friendly maps come courtesy of the Yahoo Maps Image API, which allow you to construct a map image of arbitrary dimensions for any address or latitude/longitude, and the ym4r Ruby gem that wraps the Yahoo web service. Google currently doesn’t have anything like it, and the Yahoo service is free for up to 50,000 web service hits a day. 

 

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[…] Big, Beautiful Berry411 Maps using the Yahoo Map Image API […]

This rocks. Thanks Phil. I’d switched to Google maps for most of my mapping, but only because the main map results from Berry 411 were so poor.

Now if only you could send requests to google maps from Berry 411 (sometimes the scrolling ability of their mapping application is great) that would be the perfect solution


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