Yahoo! Maps rolled out an impressive update lately - we like the colorspace and symbols!
Alas, we can't resist ...

Left side image is Yahoo! Maps largest zoom level as it seems.
The red dots on our sample image on the right is POIs, shops, commerce, cultural sights ... not too pretty yet - but here they are.

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ctd' from "A brief history of online mapping"

In 2004 Google bought Keyhole, a company producing satellite imagery. Google Earth launched in January 2005 and immediately took off.

MapQuest was bought by AOL, making it the worlds first $1B dollar mapping company.
Though still popular, MapQuest lost it’s pool position to Google Maps which collects around 24% of all world-wide mapping traffic.

Still in 2004 all data was treamed from the mapping service to the user – until Paul Rademacher started the map mashup (he just wanted to show bay areas’ flats for-rent from craigslist.com on a simple map).

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