Tour de France 2010 Maps

Tour de France 2010 Maps

"A collection of Tour de France Maps for 2010"

The Cycling event starts on 3rd July 2010 and you view some impressive mapping applications. Some will be 'live' during the event.

The 97th annual Tour de France begins on July 3rd in Rotterdam (Prologue Stage), Netherlands and will span 23 riding days en route to the finish on July 25th in Paris, France. Along the 20 Stages coveraging 3,642 km route in total
Official Tour de France 2010 Maps - surprisingly static but clear and concise
http://www.letour.fr/2010/TDF/COURSE/us/le_parcours.html [Overview Map]
Stages start (with links to other stages)
http://www.letour.fr/2010/TDF/COURSE/us/0/etape_par_etape.html
Also available via the Yahoo Portal
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/tour-de-france/map.html

Bing Maps App -Tour De France 2010

Bing Maps includes elevation gain, slope (-/+%) with an interactive profile chart linked to the map route of each stage.

The 2010 Tour de France map app:

This app is designed to help you visualise the overall race, the stages (stages tab + numbers) and how variables such as weather & elevation (elevation profiles) will impact each stage. Results will be updated along the way in the 'Results' tab.

Check the content in the 'Stages' and 'Results' tabs as you keep track of the greatest cycling race in the world.

http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/0.60041=/5872/style=be&lat=r4hhm9&lon=h0bqb4&alt=1983.162592&z=13&h=180&pid=5874

Live Tracker of The Tour de France 2010 by Ubilabs

This mapping site is consistent every year in providing live racing information on the race.
This year comes with twitter integration and facts and stats (when live racing is on).
http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance/

Cycling News

Cycling News has produce a quick and easy map to all the stages using Google Maps API.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/race-maps

Found more Tour De France Maps - add a comment - look out for updates...

Yahoo Maps Updated [Europe]

Yahoo Maps Updated [Europe]


Now it is possible to drag the routes...

Yahoo draggable routes, with option to revert back to original, also compares the route distance.

Other new features & updates
In response to users feedback Yahoo made some major improvements to Yahoo Maps

• Faster loading time -No more waiting for the application to load - Dial-up mode removed
  
• Language preference – Choose from one of the 5 European languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish and German*.
• Interactive print page – Customize the print page to include only the information you need.
• Personalised routing – Don’t like the route yahoo provide drag and drop the routes interactively.
• Saved locations – For convenience, previously entered locations are automatically stored and available within Maps and elsewhere on Yahoo, such as Local and Weather.
• Quickly look up places through auto-completion.
• Waypoint support – Get driving directions for trips with multiple stops.
• Save driving directions – Two places to save, Yahoo! Bookmarks and delicious
• Zoom bar – now with the ‘+’ on top.
  

*Yahoo will be rolling out the same set of Maps improvements in Germany in the coming weeks.

Try it http://tinyurl.com/NewYahoo-Maps-Routes
(above example)

Yahoo Maps Europe main sites:
http://uk.maps.yahoo.com/ (UK)
http://fr.maps.yahoo.com/ (France)
http://de.maps.yahoo.com/ (Germany)
http://espanol.maps.yahoo.com/ (Spain)

Yahoo! Internet Location Platform (New Geocoder)

Yahoo! Internet Location Platform (New Geocoder) New!

"The Yahoo! Internet Location Platform provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth. The purpose in creating the Internet Location Platform is to provide the Yahoo! Geographic Developer Community with the vocabulary and grammar to describe the world's geography in an unequivocal, permanent, and language-neutral manner.

The Internet Location Platform is designed to facilitate spatial interoperability and geographic discovery; users can traverse the spatial hierarchy, identify the geography relevant to their users and their business, and in turn, unambiguously geotag, geotarget, and geolocate data across the Web."

Basically this is a Geocoder for Places across the World. The accuracy is fairly precise and the easy to understand.

Here is an example:
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q('10%20downing%20street%20london%20uk')

and also you can geocode UK Postcodes - full UK Postcodes!

http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q('SW1A2AA')
*link fixed

Centroid is the postcode centre. So 51.503201, -0.12617

Checking... on the map.



http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

Rate Limits
Currently, users of the Internet Location Platform are limited to 50k queries per day.

Terms of Use (Please check this if you intend using this service with other non Yahoo Applications)
http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/api/api-2140.html

Geeky Stuff

"In simple terms, the Service allows you to look up the unique identifier - called the Where on Earth ID, or WOEID - for almost any named place on the Earth; it also allows you to resolve a WOEID you have received from a third party - such as Fire Eagle™ or Upcoming - to the place it represents.

The API is accessed via HTTP GET; the following examples can be cut-and-paste into a web browser to view the results:"
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

Mapperz

Yahoo Local - GeoSpatial Searches

Yahoo Local - GeoSpatial Searching

eh?
Results from searches can now be interactively expanded/refined by geographical location.

*Top Tip - You need to use the 'Expand' Map when in 'Shrink' Map Mode



After a search is returned you can expand or shrink the circle


In this case expanding gets you a wider area of results

A Nice Touch! - One over Google Maps there?


UK Users will have to sit and wait, this does not work in Yahoo Local UK. (yet)

More info on Geospatial techinques


Found via DigitalEarthBlog


The Official Post on this

Yahoo! Go 3.0 (Beta) with Maps

Yahoo! Go 3.0 (Beta) with Maps




Yahoo! Go 3.0 services:

• oneSearch
• Yahoo! Calendar
• Yahoo! Address Book
• Yahoo! Local
• Yahoo! Maps
• Yahoo! News
• Yahoo! Sports
• Yahoo! Finance
• Yahoo! Entertainment
• Yahoo! Weather
• Flickr
• Yahoo! Mail
  

"Yahoo! Go 3.0 connects your device to these Yahoo! services in real time. You can manage your contacts on the device and changes are synchronized with your Yahoo! account. The application uses widgets to display information from your Yahoo! services. Download provides a basic set of Yahoo! Go 3.0"



Local & Maps searches for and provides information and images specific to a location or business. The results of the search show up on the display as a

map with pinpoint links to a list of items including:

• web sites
• mobile-friendly web sites
• businesses with addresses, telephone numbers, driving directions, maps, and ratings and reviews
  

Results will vary based on what you search for and the location set. Local & Maps remembers the last location mapped so that you can get the information again immediately.

Other ways to get information relevant to a location are listed at the Local & Maps position of the carousel:

• Map View for the location at the top of the display
• City guide about places to eat, drink, stay, visit, shop and more
• Find nearby... with lists of categorized goods and services
• Driving directions for turn-by-turn instructions for getting from A to B
• Traffic Watch where you can check traffic incidents for your location and for special routes you define.
  

*Local & Maps is only available in versions for the United States of America currently.

If your device has GPS, you can use it with Local & Maps.

related links:
http://beta.m.yahoo.com/

http://mobile.yahoo.com/local
(opening 9am PST/5pm GMT 08/01/2008)

Supported phone/device list
http://mobile.yahoo.com/go/phones;_ylt=Ai3Qyh0abqfrpE_8BfnHMAFltQcJ
(N82...?)

See the Tour
http://mobile.yahoo.com/go/tour

Yahoo! MapMixer + Quick User Guide

Yahoo! MapMixer + Quick User Guide

What is MapMixer? "The world is a big place. There are thousands of maps out there that provide unique details about any given destination. MapMixer is a new site that combines those maps with Yahoo! Maps to give you a better view of the world. It's easy to mix your own map. Upload an image of your map, use our layering tool to align it with Yahoo! Maps and we'll do the rest! Your map will have all the features of Yahoo! Maps (zooming, panning). You can also syndicate it on your own site or blog."

Quick user guide
Sign in to Yahoo.
Upload your jpeg,gif or bmp.
(no tif support at present.)


Two Points are needed to estimate the geographical position of the image.
Traditionally in a GIS environment this is at least 3 points.

*Top Tip - use the opacity setting


Use the control points on the edges of the image. Yahoo Mapmixer allows you to unpin your image which enables the moving of the yahoo map base



Use the green circle to rotate the image - this helps to get an exact fit of the image.
*rotated image exaggerated here for example of the function.

Reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001.

Map Source
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/outlinemaps/

"You must not use the images for financial gain. All hard copies and electronically published material produced from Ordnance Survey data must carry the acknowledgment:
Reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001."

not sure about the hula hooping mice - a progress bar maybe?

Please observe copyright Christian Spanring explains it clearly

Map Seeaarch - but who wins?

Seeaarch is a quick fire, map and directions search website that uses 4 mapping solutions

Map Searches

• Yahoo

• Google

• Live

Directions

• Yahoo

• Google

• Mapquest

Though a quick test reveals a clear winner.


note: moving the columns is possible to show each one more clearly.

Yahoo gets confused but tries (finds an American route)
Google does the job - as you would expect
Mapquest failed to find the start location

Mapperz requests directions from
10 Downing St, Westminister, London, UK
to SW19 1AR (Wimbledon)

So there a quick and effective test.
(So why not just use Google Directions?)

When Planning a route, whether it is in the UK, Europe or any other part of the world, don't just rely on one solution.
The AA Travel Planner is more effective than any of the above in the UK. The driving times are more accurate and the congestion travel information is more up-to-date.
For Europe try Yahoo Maps

Yahoo Local UK Changes

Yahoo Local UK and Ireland Changes Mapping





Now uses Map24 to search locally

The maps are available either in a Static or Dynamic Mode. Search radius can be applied in static mode. Carefully with Firefox in dynamic mode as panning can cause firefox to close without warning (a map24 api bug?).

Blogged by Mapperz in Canada

Yahoo Maps India

Yahoo Maps India

Yahoo found India now it is mapped


Yahoo Maps India


Mumbai


Bangalore Airport

So where is next?
Antarctica anyone...?

Yahoo! Go Local 2.0 Gamma

Yahoo! Go Local has a new update from Yahoo Mobile



"Yahoo Go! is the first application optimized for the “small screen” of a mobile phone that truly makes it easy and fun to access the Internet. Everything about the Yahoo! Go interface is designed to be both visually stunning and give you what you want with the fewest clicks possible."

• Find anything around you, instantly

  Find local businesses, hear what other people have to say about them and even call with just one click.

• Your guide to what’s going on

  Yahoo! Go gives you the scoop on what’s happening in your town—or any place you want to visit.

• Get where you’re going more easily

  Interactive maps, turn-by-turn driving directions and real-time traffic reports help you get there fast.

Like a car navigation system, Yahoo! Go knows where you are and can help you easily locate what you’re looking for in your area. It gives you instant access to the best local index and detailed listing information available.




UK users of this service will be pleased to know that it will work in the United Kingdom.

Combined with the Integrated GPS (the Nokia N95 has this built in) you will not be so lost. If you are lost you can use it will tell you are location and get your from your 'lost' location to a desired location (like home).

Installing options

1. Check your phone is compatible (lots are NOT supported yet)
   
2. Either enter your phone number and receive a text to link to the download
3. Or go directly to http://get.go.yahoo.com on your phone.

Help Guide

Demo Tour

Download in 5 Easy Steps

Source: Yahoo! (UK)


Mapperz

Mapstraction Goes Testing

A One Stop Testing of all three Mapping API's Google, Yahoo and Microsoft


Mapstraction is a library which provides a common API for Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. The aim of Mapstraction in mainly to protect companies building commercial products on top of Google Maps from changes to terms and conditions, the introduction of ads, or the emergence of a competing library with better maps, different imagery or preferable licensing terms.

It's in early development at present, so this is alpha.

Looks as it needs a little attention so sites provide more functionality but this seems to be bringing the coding side together. Looks promising, updates here when and how.

This site communicates with Google maps version 2, Yahoo maps version 3 and Virtual Earth version 2 (version 3 soon).

A similar site was blogged by mapperz called rockstarapps.com
(back in 31 October 2006)

LookLOCAL Maps Google, Yahoo and Microsoft

Google Maps, Microsoft Live Local and Yahoo! Maps on one page.




A handy mapping page and comes with a help magnifying window.


Top Tip:
For finding UK addresses use Microsoft Live Local then switch mapping source.

Open Street Map gets Yahoo! Imagery Boost

Good news for Open Street Map (OSM) as Yahoo! have agreed to let OSM use their aerial imagery

So from this....


to this...

and with a bit of jiggery pokery...


create vector road centerlines

Well done OSM

More info at Geobloggers

Yahoo Maps Released

Yahoo Maps released out of Beta.

and the European Data has been updated.

Compare Microsoft, Yahoo and Google Maps

Compare Microsoft, Yahoo and Google Maps on one Webpage

"Map Compare allows you to evaulate which mapping technologies is best. All three maps are locked together so panning, zooming and changing map types will effect all maps the same. You can also use the tab pane to try out various map features like; markers, popups as well. "



Best Maps - Google (Carographically)
Best Aerial/Satellite - Virtual Earth (Higher Resolution more UK coverage)
Best Geocoder - Yahoo (percentage match returned but Live Local does Geocode UK addresses)

So a Mashup of Google Maps, Virtual Earth Aerial view and Yahoo Geocoding would be the ideal solution.

Nearest found is Flash Earth where is it easy to switch layers between mapping sources.
Does not support geocoding as yet.