Filed under: Web services, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!
Online mapping services compared
A lot flew beneath my radar last week, including, unfortunately, a great
post by TechCrunch's Frank Gruber called Comparing the Mapping Services, in
which he compares, with some nice screenshots and tables, the big five online map services: Ask.com, Google, Yahoo!,
Windows Live, and MapQuest. Gruber praises all of the services, but in the end he says (spoiler alert!), "Overall,
Yahoo Maps was by far the best application tested. Its fast Flash interface, multipoint directions, live traffic
information, and easy send-to-mobile feature make it the hands down winner. It also features the most robust API
options." What's the best online map service for your money?
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
William C Bonner said 11:25AM on 4-25-2006
It's interesting to hear that the flash interface is what the reviewer liked, as it's exactly what made me hate the new yahoo maps interface.
I use Yahoo maps for most of my first try mapping, and then I compare it to google on individual things, and have generally liked the google interface for images.
Reply
Neil T. said 6:27PM on 4-26-2006
Yahoo Maps Beta absolutely sucks in the UK. Its satellite imagery has very low detail and its road mapping only shows major roads and is about 20 years out of date, by my reckoning.
Google Maps is the best I've tried so far.
Reply