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Random and not so random thoughts from Raymond Yee, primarily on the scholarly and educational use of the Web, libraries, educational technology, and information management

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Trying out Yahoo maps API #

Recently, three big things happened in the world of mapping-for-everyone:

Google announced an API for its maps

Google rebranded Keyhole, released a free version of it as Google Earth, and spiffed up the pay-for version of Keyhole as Google Earth Plus.

Yahoo announced an API for its maps

As a way back into the mapping work, I decided to figure out how hard it is to use the Yahoo Maps API by creating an XML input file by hand to get the following map: test map with 2 Flickr photos.

I hope to come back to write up detailed information on how I did this, but I do recommend reading Documentation for Yahoo! Maps Web Services, studying some sample XML (such as mine), and then creating your own XML file to feed to Yahoo maps. I must say the fact that Yahoo allows one to enter addresses is a current advantage over Google, which does not provide geocoding (as of my writing this paragraph.)

Posted by Raymond Yee on 7/12/05; 4:36:33 PM
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