New Flex Powered Yahoo! Maps

November 2, 2005 ·

Yahoo! is beta testing a new version of Yahoo! Maps (with new features). This is not AJAX folks, it is powered by Flex.

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David November 3, 2005

The bigger picture emerges.. Ya-Mac-Hoo-roMedia Inc. Now the Yahoo toolbar download with Flash Player makes more sense... ;-)

Andrew Muller November 3, 2005

Ben, very fast response, very lumber enabled...

Alex November 3, 2005

I agree with Chuck. While it has more functionality and better tools than Google Maps, its not as smooth. It just seem a bit clunky. That seems (IMO) to be the Achilles Heel of Flash. Hope 8/8.5 can help. As of now, I'm still partial to Google Maps.

Chuck November 3, 2005

Nice, but not quite as smooth or fast as Google maps - can Flex provide the same quality?

PaulC November 3, 2005

I was wondering if that was Flex or not. Very nice work. It'll be even better in a couple years once they can safely deploy for 8/8.5. Not good news for Ajax. I'm sure it was considered at one point, I'd have liked to been listening in on that, especially in terms of development time.

quiksilv November 3, 2005

Any idea when they will be getting UK data?

JesterXL November 3, 2005

1.5, usable in Flash Player 7 and up.

rodrigo November 3, 2005

is it flex 1.5 or 2 ?

Jim November 3, 2005

This is GREAT. Finally a place to point people to who ask "What's Flex?". Macrodobe needs to pimp out some money for a nice Flex ad banner on that page :)

Simon Horwith November 3, 2005

nice!

Ben Forta November 3, 2005

Oops, missed the important one: 3: http://ws1.inf.scd.yahoo.com/maps/flash/flexGettingStarted.html

Ben Forta November 3, 2005

1: It is our job to know these things ;-) 2: http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/11/02/new-yahoo-maps-shows-power-of-flash

Alex November 3, 2005

Great use of Flash! How do you know its Flex?

Jason Hawryluk November 4, 2005

Yes thats good, but have you all seen this !!!! http://www.glidedigital.com/glidephoto/default.htm

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