June 8, 2006
Mapping services
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| Google Maps |  |
Yahoo Maps beta | |
Windows Live Local beta | |
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| Integrates with other services | Gmail, Google Calendar beta | |
My Yahoo | |
Outlook, Messenger, Favorites, MSN Spaces | |
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| Satellite views | Yes | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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| Business listings | Yes | |
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| Directions | Driving between 2 points | |
Driving between up to 24 points | |
Driving between 2 points | |
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| Streetside photo views | No | |
No | |
Separate Virtual Earth demo | |
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| Live traffic data | No | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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| Tag locations | No | |
No | |
Yes | |
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| Save locations | No | |
Yes | |
Yes, and take notes and upload photos to locations | |
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| Natural language queries | Yes | |
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| Print maps | Yes | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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| Send maps to mobile phone | Yes | |
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No | |
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| Keyboard shortcuts | Yes | |
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Yes | |
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| Mouse right-click shortcuts | No | |
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Yes | |
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| Open code | No | |
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Yes | |
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| Third-party mashups | Yes | |
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| Ads | Text | |
No | |
Text | |
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| Underlying code | AJAX | |
Flash | |
AJAX | |
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| Link to and e-mail page | Yes | |
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| Right-click map | No | |
Yes, and drag and drop addresses | |
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