Yahoo Maps and the Global Mapping Quest

Satellite imagery, and the act of controlling it so to speak by the consumer itself, was something that Google and Microsoft had originally beat Yahoo to the punch with. Seems nowadays that if you run a large search engine, a requirement is that you must to index the globe to complete the literal meaning of world wide web.

However with Yahoo’s Map’s Beta they are allowing visitors to view “locations at about one meter per pixel resolution from anywhere within the United States — from rural areas to major cities. This announcement also gives Yahoo! Maps the best medium-resolution global map data of any of the players in this space, and lets users find most cities, towns, and major land features on the planet.”

One question worth answering is, “why didn’t Google just buy Navteq, and lock out all competitors?” Duly noted my young navigator ,however as Tran stated, “with a nearly $5 billion market cap, Navteq would be a rather pricey acquisition. In the literal sense, this means that Yahoo covers more roads, towns and and can overlay more data then its competitors and with the help of the FareChase search engine, you could be viewing your next vacation spot before you go.

Satellite imagery, and the act of controlling it so to speak by the consumer itself, was something that Google and Microsoft had originally beat Yahoo to the punch with. Seems nowadays that if you run a large search engine, a requirement is that you must to index the globe to complete the literal meaning of world wide web.

However with Yahoo’s Map’s Beta they are allowing visitors to view “locations at about one meter per pixel resolution from anywhere within the United States — from rural areas to major cities. This announcement also gives Yahoo! Maps the best medium-resolution global map data of any of the players in this space, and lets users find most cities, towns, and major land features on the planet.”

One question worth answering is, “why didn’t Google just buy Navteq, and lock out all competitors?” Duly noted my young navigator ,however as Tran stated, “with a nearly $5 billion market cap, Navteq would be a rather pricey acquisition. In the literal sense, this means that Yahoo covers more roads, towns and and can overlay more data then its competitors and with the help of the FareChase search engine, you could be viewing your next vacation spot before you go.