It’s good to see more map mashups coming from developers working with both MSN Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps. Here’s a look at just a couple of them. Remember, these are just released apps and bugs are bound to exist.
MSN Virtual Earth
- Virtual Places
Nice! All sorts of “overlays.” Add in images Flickr, travel books about a specific location, weather, local blogs, and more. Coming soon will be a tagging, sharing, and publishing. Btw, Virtual Places says it works with Firefox. However, I had problems when using my Firefox browser. Might be my problem.
- OSX Dashboard Widget for MSN Virtual Earth
For the Mac folks out there.
- Read All About It
Combine MSN Virtual Earth with the Amazon.com book database. Enter a location and find books about the location or events that took place there.
Yahoo Maps
- Local Events Browser
This Ajax-based demo allows you to find events in and around San Francisco. Find events by date and tags. Add events directly to your Yahoo Calendar.
- MashupUpcoming.org
Impressive! Take Yahoo Maps and then add events from Upcoming.org’s (a new Yahoo property) database. You can even add in local traffic, wi-fi hotspots, and ATM’s.
- Geocoding, Local Seach, Traffic API Mash-up with Yahoo Maps!
Useful and easy to use. Enter an address, a local data (like a store name), and then decide to overlay traffic info. Select each button one at a time. Btw, you can use Zip Codes instead of city/town name.