Posted by LauriecPA on 8/18/05 11:09pm
Msg #60113
new map site
There was an article in the newspaper yesterday about a new map site starting up. It is owned by Amazon, and it's address is http://maps.a9.com.
Here is an excerpt from an online article:
- Hoping to become a more popular Internet destination, a small search engine owned by Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. is testing a mapping service that will display street-level photos of the city blocks surrounding a requested address.
The A9.com service, which became available Monday, joins the increasingly crowded field of online mapping. Other major players include America Online's Mapquest.com, Yahoo Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.com. (MSNBC content is distributed by MSN. MSNBC itself is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)
A9 is counting on an index of 35 million photographs spanning the neighborhoods of 22 U.S. cities to distinguish its mapping service from the rest of the pack.
The rest of the article is available at msnbc.msn.com/id/8964742
It doesn't appear to be up and running yet, but it looks like it will help us out a lot with our job when it is! (Especially the direction impaired people like me!)
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