Mapping sites showdown! Part 4: Yahoo Maps
Hello and welcome to my review of the online mapping website Yahoo Maps. This review will be broken down into the positives and the negatives of the mapping site and will compare the performance of the routing engines at the end of this review. First we shall take a look at the positives of the mapping site. Subject: The interface:First I will note that the interface for Yahoo maps is very easy to use, and does not have the bells and whistles that drag it down and it makes the site very responsive. Yahoo maps is very fast on older hardware and requires no plugins to view it. Printing options are very excellent with mini maps on each turn that are collapsible, as well as total distance travelled on each turn. Yahoo maps has very accurate address inputs and processing. Uses NAVTEQ maps, which are very accurate. Now let's take a look at the negatives: Subject: the user experience: since yahoo lacks the bells and whistles Google maps or Bing Maps has, there are a few things ...