Yahoo Maps joins the VirtualEarth,Google Earth party

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Ever since, Yahoo announced the appointment of Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan to Head of Yahoo! Research to address complex challenges in key areas for Yahoo! (source), including search and information navigation, social media, community, personalization, and mobility Yahoo has aimed to be a Research Powerhouse with investing and hiring more and more researchers.

But thats been going on for some time now...and where are the results finally ? well say Hello to the all new Yahoo! Maps Beta its bout it would do the expected features that you'll find in Google earth or a MS 's virtual earth ,but here are some interesting converging features that brings the most of integrating yahoo's rich bouquet offering to the table,aside from being far more interactive (click and drag!)
1. Multi-point driving directions. Get yourself from point A to B and on to C all in one map.
2. Integrated Yahoo! Local. Includes our local search, a browseable interface, easy access to business ratings, reviews, and events.
3. The new overview map (in the upper-right hand corner) helps you get your bearings. The little grey box representing your big map is even drag-able. Use it to move around rapidly without losing context.
4.address auto-complete from your Yahoo! Address Book, using your home area or most recently used address to start, and the mini-map and left panel, which can be hidden when you want to focus on just the map.
5.The maps are easy to bookmark
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With Yahoo deciding to invest in research havily now,no wonder theyve come up with the API's to make use of Yahoo Maps and allowing users to come up with their own applications levergaing the new service.

Resources
1.Get started with Yahoo Maps APIs.
2.Sample applications here.
3.google earth vs msn virtual earth.. as cool as it gets
 
Well virtual earth is a competitor to google maps not google earth. MS doesn't have a product to counter google earth as of now.
 
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