New! Explore Yell.com in 3D Photo-real Maps UK

New! Explore Yell.com in 3D Photo-real Maps UK

3D Photo-real imagery comes to a few cities in the United Kingdom in Yell Maps Beta.

"In a UK-first, the photo-realistic 3D maps were created from actual film footage shot from light aeroplanes using sophisticated aerospace technology, which is then merged with other film taken from ground level. They can be used for free on the Yell.com website, which is the online version of the Yellow Pages directory. "

Rendering in 3D Buckingham Palace.

• Buckingham Palace

Discover the residence of the Royal Family in the heart of Westminster from a 3D perspective.

• Bull Ring Birmingham (see image above)

View the Bull Ring shopping centre of Birmingham and discover the quirky Selfridges building from the air.

• Leeds Town hall

Explore Leeds from a new perspective and fly over one of the largest Town Halls in the UK.

• Old Trafford Stadium (Manchester United)

View from the air Old Trafford the Theatre of Dreams, where the famous football club Manchester United play.

Full Url to the Birmingham Bullring

http://www.yell.com/maps/MapAction.do?null&scrambleSeed=&lat=52.477107889650064&lon=-1.8925879721339858&zoomFactor=3&type=&viewer

Mode=3dmap&pitch=39&heading=286&height3d=292&scfov=80&intCam

Source:

Slashgeo

http://technology.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=10/06/16/196240

New Yell Maps Beta 2010 Online

New Yell Maps Beta 2010 Online

New cleaner, faster yell maps, helps users locate local directory listings faster. optional is to display Points of Interest (POI) surrounding the local area.

Yell, the search directory business, is introducing a 'bespoke local business' mapping solution on its Yell.com service.

Yell.com Maps has been developed in partnership with Paris-based specialist provider Tridoo (http://www.onyourmap.fr/), which already provides mapping for Yell’s mobile phone services.

“It needs to be as natural for people to find a local business through Yell Maps as it is with the Yellow Pages directory.” Matthew Bottomley, Director of New Media Product Marketing

Yell.com Maps, which is in beta, is part of Yell’s ongoing development of new technologies to ensure it is the best provider of quality business leads for local businesses. Key features and benefits over the previous mapping service include:

• Ability to search within the map for local businesses and services
• Faster response and better geo-coding for increased accuracy
• Consistent experience across web and mobile
• Quarterly updates to keep information as accurate as possible
• Brand new design with bespoke colour-scheme and bigger, clearer maps

Djamila Fernana-Ritchie leads Yell’s mapping team. She said: “This is the first of a number of planned releases designed to make Yell Maps the premier mapping solution for local business search in the UK. "

see the youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/user/yell


The partnership with Paris-based Tridoo has been a cultural and technical shift for Yell. Djamila said:
“It is a relatively small specialist company which has spent the last 10 years at the forefront of mapping and geo-spatial development.

Goal:
“Yell.com Maps is the culmination of all that knowledge, in one platform.”

Yell maps beta is also available via mobile device.

More & Source:
http://www.yellgroup.com/english/media-pressreleases-2009-yellcommakesitsownlocalbusinessmappingservice

Yell Maps - New Features

Yell Maps - New Features



MultiMap Based Mapping
Microsoft Virtual Earth Birds Eye View Mode
Points of Interest (POI)

• Car parks
  
• Cash dispensers
• WiFi Access
• Railway stations
  
• Speed Cameras
• Blue Badge parking
• Motorbike parking
  
• Public toilets
• Tube stations
• Bus stops (Includes Bus Routes for that location)
  
• Traffic news
• Bicycle parking
  
• Taxi ranks
• River taxis

Note: POI Features are available in the Birds Eye View - Helps visually to users and builds a mental picture for when they get there.





Where to find these maps
http://www.yell.com/ucs/HomePageAction.do
and search with the 'Show on Map' ticked.

Think this is the first type of cross Mapping as using Multimap for the base mapping - but then Microsoft Virtual Earth is being used in the Birds Eye View.

Yell have done a good update and this will be the best mapping they have had on there website.
Prediction - 2008 Hybird Mapping API. Though check Terms and Conditions on using different mapping applications together, some prohibit use with 'competitors' mapping solutions.
i.e. Yahoo Geocoder is only allowed to be used with Yahoo Maps.

New Yell.com Maps

Yell have released new mapping for their search. Using Multimap and AJAX (smooth panning without refreshing). Looks much better and easier to use than the old clunky html mapping.
Asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX) seems to becoming the default for web mapping applications.


Here is the link you can see for yourself.


update: a good blog post here