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Great find!
Yahoo is definitely on the ball.
It put an auto dealer on top of my church.
It has a seafood restaurant in the middle of a condo complex.
It has a restaurant that doesn't exist. (I called to make certain.)
That said:
Many of the locations were dead on. This is impressive. Very.
258cib, you can make the map larger, by clicking on the link leftside. That said, they need to have smaller "balls"
Right establishments, at least for resturants...but VERY wrong locations for me. It's not everything either, some things (although very few) are correct. Somethings are off by at least 2 miles.
Exactly. It's not the size of the map that's a problem in my case. They've got some auto dealer listed I've never heard of.
I'd love to hear how they're going to get the ads on this.
My only wiches for thoses systems (same problems with geolocation at google labs), who relies on sometimes old database, is to put a revision date on data they shown to us.
It is a step in the right direction, but still a long way to go. I was shocked to find out there are no golf courses within several hundred miles of me. Maybe that explains my high handicap. :)
There are actually dozens of courses missing.....
I don't remember ever seen Hotel room's price or Movie Schedule in the old version. Also its seem to me SmartView have at least doubled the number of categories?
Now, if we could just get that search eng....um, nevermind. ;-)
I have noticed some missing things, like an amusement park.
And I can't believe how many golf courses we have on Long Island! For hiking trails, it didn't include state parks that have hiking trails. I'm not sure if the hiking trails that they did include were within state parks, though. Some libraries were missing, an airport was left off, some missing gas stations (and my middle school being called a gas station [unless maybe they have their own gas pump for school vehicles?]). There was a missing train station, although they weren't listed under train stations, just public transportation. Under drug stores, a CVS was missing. I'm curious though, a 24 hour CVS is being constructed about a block away, how long will it take yahoo to be updated with this info?
Overall, thumbs up!
Jennifer
I don't remember ever seen Hotel room's price or Movie Schedule in the old version.
Never used it for movie listings, so no clue there. But I do recall seeing room rates and even the 1-5 star ratings before. Hmmmm. I think the old costs weren't shown specific to each hotel, though. Instead they used to group hotels based on rates, as I recall.
Also its seem to me SmartView have at least doubled the number of categories?
Most definitely.
IMHO this is one of those obvious ideas that should never have been awarded a patent.
