Tag: DIRECTIONS

Microsoft has launched a public beta of Windows Live Search for mobile, and David Ciccone over at Mobility Today has been kind enough to demonstrate Live Search on his Windows Mobile phone. The service service is free, but you'll need a J2ME-capable or Windows Mobile phone and a data plan to to try it out. Overall it looks pretty nifty. You can search for maps or directions, and can even get ...

Fresh Logic Studios has stepped out of left field with Atlas, a flashy (or should I say Ajaxy?) new mapping service. Basically what Fresh Logic has done is grab the maps from Windows Live Local and slap a slick new interface on it. Atlas is very attractive and has a tabbed interface that devotes a ton of real estate to the map itself while keeping other functions hidden until you need them. This ...

I would call iPod Directions a cool Yahoo! Maps/iPod mash-up, but it's not really a mash-up at all. It's a web service that fetches directions from Yahoo! Maps and gives them to you as a ZIP file full of images to drop into your iTunes photo folder. It's both simple and ingenius, because all it does is grab the images and text directly from Yahoo! Maps' turn-by-turn directions, convert the text ...

Finally, what might be a compelling reason to upgrade my old 'n crufty phone: Google Local Mobile. Google has finally taken the next logical step and brought Google Local (Google Maps included) to mobile phones. Though I can't actually use it, from the tour it look fantastic. It has almost all of Google Local's features, including built-in local search, driving and walking directions, and ...

Following in Google and Yahoo!'s wake, venerable mapping site (and fellow AOL company) MapQuest has released an open API that third-party developers can use to integrate mappingservices into their own web sites. The new "OpenAPI" supports most of what Google and Yahoo!'s APIs do, like push-pin markers and pop-up info boxes, with the addition of route-planning that competing APIs lack. ...

Sometime in the last week or so Ask.com launched a brand new map and driving direction service that definitely takes more than one cue from Google Maps. In fact, its basic functionality works pretty much exactly like Google Maps'. You can click and drag the map and zoom just like with Google Maps and it has street, satellite, and hybrid ("mixed") views like you're accustomed to. Once you ...