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Yahoo Maps Beta

Attended a presentation on Flash 8 last night and one of the sites demonstrated was Yahoo Maps Beta. This is a cool app.

Let's say you're going from point A to point B but you're gonna need to stop for gas someone along the way. You enter your addresses for A and B and then search for "gas station" under "Find on the Map." All the gas stations are labeled on the map and listed in the search pane. Click and hold one of the gas station points on the map and drag and drop it onto your directions, between A and B or after B. The route is re-drawn to include point C, the gas stop. Depending on if you want to stop for gas on the way there or on the way back, just drag point C where you want it in relation to A and B and the directions will be rewritten and the route on the map redrawn. Also, it can integrate live traffic data. Click on the orange link at the top of the map "Live Traffic."

All this is done in Flash integrating data from Yahoo Local and other data sources.

Link: Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic

(update: working for me now! it was the company firewall!)