Por fin parece que empieza a remitir a little fever that has kept me confined to home for several days, and encouraged me to write something.
For those who love to travel and, like me, travel planning, designing routes reading about interesting sites, the ability to see good maps on the Internet has been a joy.
few years ago was very difficult to find good maps on any particular area, and generally be limited to scanned maps, images or saved as PDFs, so they were not navigable and interactive and ... nothing.
One of the first sites, so I began to have useful maps was MultiMap , at least at that time had maps United Kingdom (at the time was multimap.co.uk) and some other countries.
Today, after the boom that led to the purchase and release by the Google Google Earth , major Internet players have invested in these tools. The most used are:
- Google Maps. In general, the better. Has a new option My Maps to save your own notes and photos.
- Yahoo Maps. Quite a lot.
- Live Maps from Microsoft. They are also very good. They also have not tried software called Virtual Earth 3D (should look like al Google Earth).
Los tres sistemas cuentan con las mismas prestaciones básicas:
- Permiten moverse arrastrando el mapa y usar el zoom con la rueda del ratón.
- Incluyen mapas, fotografías aéreas y modo mixto.
- Incluyen un mini-mapa con la vista general de la zona.
- Permiten buscar lugares y direcciones, así como rutas entre un lugar y otro.
- Tienen opción de ver el tráfico en tiempo real en determinadas zonas.
El detalle de los mapas, que es uno de los factores que más aprecia el usuario, varían según la localización y según cada uno de los tres sistemas, así que mi consejo is that for a specific area tested in the three and choose the best.
also be taken into account that usually frequent updates, which improves the resolution of the photos or include more detailed maps.
For example, the following images that offer the most detailed aerial photos of my house in Google, Yahoo and Live:
| Google Yahoo Live | |
Looks that the best option is to Google.
Instead, these images are the most detailed map to a specific area of \u200b\u200bIreland in Google, Yahoo and Live:
| Google Yahoo Live | |
In this case the best option is given by Yahoo.
Thus, it is best to test what we are looking at three to stay with the best option.
Also remember that every day there are new improvements.
For example, now has Google StreetView (available only in some areas of the U.S.) to see firsthand the streets.
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