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Posted by Richard Ziade on November 17, 2006, 09:55AM

Yahoo Maps Released From Beta

Yahoo Maps - built on the Flash (and some Flex?) platform - has been released from beta. Congratulations to Yahoo and Adobe. This is compelling validation for using the Flash platform as a way to deliver richer experiences. I'm not sure if there's a more accessible, mainstream application out there on Flash.

Google Maps is still winning the battle in terms of mash-ups, and if I'm not mistaken, Mapquest (yes Mapquest) is still the most popular. Old habits die hard I guess.


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HI Rich,

FYI Yahoo Maps is indeed a Flex 1.5 application.

-Dav

Posted by: David at November 17, 2006 10:49 AM

There are many methods of getting Yahoo Maps to work in Flex 2/AS3. http://codycodingcowboy.cahlan.com/2006/09/yahoo-maps-in-flex-2-as3.html

Posted by: Dustin Andrew at November 17, 2006 11:17 AM

Not to mention the Yahoo Maps Flash API, details available at the YDN:

http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/howto-maps_as2.html

Posted by: Douglas Clifton at November 17, 2006 6:53 PM

Ah, that's what I thought. I knew it "felt" like a Flex app. Heh.

Posted by: Richard Ziade at November 18, 2006 7:31 AM

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