With the release of Yahoo! Maps beta, an ActionScript and Flex-based map application, Yahoo! also released the Maps beta API. This API is designed to give you the unique opportunity of integrating much of the enhanced...
Because there is a Yahoo Maps Web Service available which takes appid and address parameters as querystring parameters and returns an XML object, we can easily implement this in Flash with a LoadVars object to do the sending...
I'm just going to put this code on the timeline for simplicity's sake, but you may set up a class, if you prefer. First, we have the variable that will store the com.yahoo.maps.api.YahooMap instance. I typed it as Object...
I've found this code really useful in the admin section of my Rockville Living site, to make sure the geocode information displayed is as correct as possible.
Yahoo! doesn't have a Flex 2.0 map API, so if we want to have a map, we need to use the Flash API. But having the map in Flash and the rest of the app in Flex it is not as simple as having everything written in Flex. This is...
Yahoo recently released a new Flash framework for use with it's Search, Weather, Mapping, Upcoming and Answers APIs called ASTRA (ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications). As the documentation is still a little sketchy in...
This is a tutorial/example showing how to create a geolocation mashup by generating HTML/JavaScript code from a Python script. The resulting code is an HTML page with embedded JavaScript that you can open with your browser. It...
The Yahoo! Maps API is quite interesting. Yahoo! requires a unique key is provided for each application that requests a map, but at the time of this writing the domain/subdomain/subdirectory and port of the web server are not...
Ajax-based mapping applications have become very popular with both web surfers and developers these days. And two big players with a lot of experience in web searching services, Yahoo! and Google, continue adding more and more...
There is of course the fancy new maps.yahoo.com/beta site which is fun, but as far as I am concerned the killer app here is the geocoding platform that drives this. And it is completely accessible for anyone to use. It\'s also...
There is of course the fancy new maps.yahoo.com/beta site which is fun, but as far as I am concerned the killer app here is the geocoding platform that drives this. And it is completely accessible for anyone to use. It's also a...
In this article, I'll show you how to use the powerful collection of Yahoo! APIs to build a mashup with PHP 5. First we'll take a look at what APIs are, and the various offerings from Yahoo! that we can take advantage of.
Yahoo's map API has the option of returning the data as a PHP serialized string! What that means is if you send a request to the Yahoo map API, you only have to run the results through PHP's unserialize() function and you have...
This is a tutorial/example showing how to create a geolocation mashup by generating HTML/JavaScript code from a Python script. The resulting code is an HTML page with embedded JavaScript that you can open with your browser. It...
Here is a quick tutorial showing how to display markers on a Google map with the YM4R/GM plugin. We will also see how to use the Traffic functionnality of the YM4R gem, which connects to the Yahoo! Map Traffic API, to display...
