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karatecatman Guest
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject: Yahoo puts 20 Indian tier-1 and 2 cities `on the map' |
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Yahoo puts 20 Indian tier-1 and 2 cities `on the map'
http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/26/stories/2007042601091800.htm
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On Wednesday he launched "Our City", a new Net resource which aggregates city specific information including, news, travel and tourism, weather, local business as well as user contributed blogs, photos and videos, for 20 Indian tier-1 and tier-2 towns.
Content in the local language of the region is also linked
http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com
The site is linked to the other resource launched here: `India Maps' consolidates satellite imagery and street maps for 170 Indian cities, 4,785 towns and over 2.20 lakh villages — arguably the largest India-specific cartographic service available on the Internet.
The map data have been provided in collaboration with the India-based CE Info Systems — and Yahoo spokespersons were quick to point out that all imagery was compliant with Indian government guidelines. Users could merge street maps with satellite pictures to create hybrid maps of their own.
http://in.maps.yahoo.com/
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Nimish Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 9757 Location: Bangalore, India
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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This is a great move from Yahoo, and finally some place where it's a step ahead of Google!
I checked out the maps for BLR, they are reasonably accurate. |
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himmat01 Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1392 Location: DEL
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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I checked out BLR airport on it. The picture seems to be atleast 2 years old. _________________ Save Maharashtra!
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HAWK21M Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 8132 Location: Mumbai, INDIA
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Def not recent as pertaining to Mumbai.Also much slower than Google maps.
regds
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the_380 Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 2329 Location: Mumbai, India
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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A reasonably good move....!!!
But its more than one and a half years old atleast, my current house's plot is empty _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld
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Akshay Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 315 Location: Mumbai
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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It has errors too. It mentions western express highway as Ali Yawar Jung marg. Don't know if it really has that name. I also dont know what they mean by Vyaravali BEST depot. It is actually Magathane bus depot.
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