[Note to our non-U.S. readers: To be "86-ed," is to
be ejected from a bar or restaurant in some American
slang vocabularies.]

From All Points Blog. Read down into the original
posting to see speculation as to why. Perhaps "user
mapping fatigue"?

Amazon Drops Mapping and BlockView and...
Gary at ResourceShelf let me know that Amazon's A9 has
dropped mapping and other services this week .

The company "What's New" page says little about why,
just that the goodies are gone.

We have discontinued the A9 Instant Reward
program, and the A9 Toolbar and personalized services
such as history, bookmarks, and diary. To get help
uninstalling your A9 Toolbar, visit toolbar.a9.com. We
have also discontinued A9 Maps and the A9 Yellow Pages
(including BlockView™).




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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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