Gus,

You outlined the geocoder Maps API Terms of Use prohibit "use the
stand-alone geocoder for any use other than displaying Yahoo! Maps or
displaying points on Yahoo! Maps".  The web site
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com states that it uses the Y! API to
generate geocode information for later use in a GPX file.  I assume
that they have licensed the API for this purpose. Could you explain
this type of license and the cost involved?

Thanks,
Mike

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Gus M" <gusm@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Unfortunately, the Y! Maps API Terms of Use prohibit "use the stand-
> alone geocoder for any use other than displaying Yahoo! Maps or
> displaying points on Yahoo! Maps"
>
> http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/maps/mapsapi/mapsapi-2141.html
>
>
>  Gus…
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> Gus Maldonado
> Sr. Product Manager - Y! GeoSpatial Technologies
>
> --- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "t_suja" <t_suja@> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your clarification Gus. Can I ask you if it is legal for
> a
> > website to use the Yahoo Geocoding service, use the returned
> > coordiates to zoom in to a location on a Yahoo map and then extract
> > the extent of this Yahoo map to use it in a different application?
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
>

I've got a function which I want to center on the map, and then create
a marker at the center.  This doesn't work as it will create a mark
where the map was previously centered.  (probably due to JS timing)

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?

<div id="map"></div>
<input type='textbox' id='center' name='center'/>
<input type='button'
onClick='centerOnInput(document.getElementById("center").value);'
value='Center'/>

<script>
var map = new YMap(document.getElementById('map'));

function centerOnInput( center ) {
    map.drawZoomAndCenter( center );
    var point = map.getCenterLatLon();
    var lat = point.Lat
    var lon = point.Lon
    var currentGeoPoint = new YGeoPoint( lat, lon );
    var newMarker= new YMarker(currentGeoPoint, null, 'lastMarker');
    map.addOverlay(newMarker);
}
</script>

Hi

Does someone have an easy (preferably php) parser to input a location
and save only the lat/long of the locations in variables or an array
or so?

I admit it's laziness talking, but someone must have this already ;)

Thanks,
Paul

We're reviewing this implementation.

Thanks,
  Gus...

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "vassalmm" <michael.vassallo@...>
wrote:
>
> Gus,
>
> You outlined the geocoder Maps API Terms of Use prohibit "use the
> stand-alone geocoder for any use other than displaying Yahoo! Maps
or
> displaying points on Yahoo! Maps".  The web site
> http://www.gpsvisualizer.com states that it uses the Y! API to
> generate geocode information for later use in a GPX file.  I assume
> that they have licensed the API for this purpose. Could you explain
> this type of license and the cost involved?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> --- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Gus M" <gusm@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Unfortunately, the Y! Maps API Terms of Use prohibit "use the
stand-
> > alone geocoder for any use other than displaying Yahoo! Maps or
> > displaying points on Yahoo! Maps"
> >
> > http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/maps/mapsapi/mapsapi-
2141.html
> >
> >
> >  Gus…
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > Gus Maldonado
> > Sr. Product Manager - Y! GeoSpatial Technologies
> >
> > --- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "t_suja" <t_suja@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for your clarification Gus. Can I ask you if it is legal
for
> > a
> > > website to use the Yahoo Geocoding service, use the returned
> > > coordiates to zoom in to a location on a Yahoo map and then
extract
> > > the extent of this Yahoo map to use it in a different
application?
> > >
> > > Many thanks.
> > >
> >
>

This should be working now.



Some versions of legacy flash javascript apis had stuck in a parameter for
their tile requests : "&t=p".   It's unclear why this parameter was added,
as it had no meaning when they added it.  The tile servers were reconfigured
to interpret this as a request for a png (as it had beenon the hybrid tile
servers).  The legacy flash apis were expecting a swf, and therefore they
went blank.



We'll make sure this is handled properly going forward, but the old flash
apis are deprecated.  If you can use the AS3 api:



http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/



or the ajax api:



http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ajax/



You'll be better served.



http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/



-Alan







   _____

From: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yws-maps@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of carnolddesigns
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:05 AM
To: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yws-maps] Yahoo maps have stopped showing up



Hi all,
I had embedded several Yahoo maps onto some pages for our news site; I
have an appID and got them posted and they showed up fine for a while.

Today I noticed that ALL of our Yahoo maps have stopped working. I see
the Map/Sat/Hyb buttons and a light-colored box where the map used to
be, but nothing else.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks,
Chris





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Yes, there is!

go.yahoo.com

Paul

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Jaishankar Jayaraman" <jai32@...> wrote:
>
> Is there any version of Yahoo for mobile similar to Google mobile
> maps?
>

I would suggest using perl Geocoder. I will include the script I use, it has
a few comments with links that you can find more info about this. Good luck.

_______ Perl Script below

use Geo::Coder::US;
Geo::Coder::US->set_db( "/path/to/geocode.db" );
tiger/
# Geo-Coder Web Start Point
# http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/US.pm
# Data to generate geocode.db
# http://www2.census.gov/geo/
my $outputSent = "false";
if ($ARGV[0] ne ""){
  my $addressString = $ARGV[0];
  print "Lookup Address:" . $addressString . "\n";
  my ($coords) = Geo::Coder::US->geocode($addressString);
  if($coords->{lat} != ""){
   print "$coords->{lat},$coords->{long}\n";
   exit;
  }
}
if($outputSent eq "false"){
  print "false\n";
}



On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:55 AM, paul_riedel86 <paul_riedel86@...>wrote:

>   Hi
>
> Does someone have an easy (preferably php) parser to input a location
> and save only the lat/long of the locations in variables or an array
> or so?
>
> I admit it's laziness talking, but someone must have this already ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Exclude the line tiger/   (line 3)  That was a typo.

Again good luck,
   Mathew

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Mathew <aepod23@...> wrote:

> I would suggest using perl Geocoder. I will include the script I use, it
> has a few comments with links that you can find more info about this. Good
> luck.
>
> _______ Perl Script below
>
> use Geo::Coder::US;
> Geo::Coder::US->set_db( "/path/to/geocode.db" );
> tiger/
> # Geo-Coder Web Start Point
> # http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/US.pm
> # Data to generate geocode.db
> # http://www2.census.gov/geo/
> my $outputSent = "false";
> if ($ARGV[0] ne ""){
>  my $addressString = $ARGV[0];
>  print "Lookup Address:" . $addressString . "\n";
>  my ($coords) = Geo::Coder::US->geocode($addressString);
>  if($coords->{lat} != ""){
>   print "$coords->{lat},$coords->{long}\n";
>   exit;
>  }
> }
> if($outputSent eq "false"){
>  print "false\n";
> }
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:55 AM, paul_riedel86
<paul_riedel86@...>wrote:
>
>>   Hi
>>
>> Does someone have an easy (preferably php) parser to input a location
>> and save only the lat/long of the locations in variables or an array
>> or so?
>>
>> I admit it's laziness talking, but someone must have this already ;)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Brown" <adbrown@...> wrote:
>
> If you use the geocoding API with a single location parameter,
there is no
> problem with these addresses.
>
>
>
> local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=<your app
> id>&location=BLACKFRIARS+RAILWAY+STATION%2C+London
>
>
>
> returns
>
>
>
> <ResultSet xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:maps
> http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/GeocodeResponse.xsd">
>
> <Result precision="address">
>
> <Latitude>51.511848</Latitude>
>
> <Longitude>-0.103660</Longitude>
>
> <Address>Blackfriars Railway Station</Address>
>
> <City>London, Greater London, EC4V 4</City>
>
> <State>United Kingdom</State>
>
> <Zip/>
>
> <Country>GB</Country>
>
> </Result>
>
> </ResultSet>
>
>
>
> as does
>
>
>
> local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=<your app
> id>&location=BLACKFRIARS+RAILWAY+STATION%2C+Queen+Victoria+Street%
2C+London
>
>
>
> There hasn't been any work on changing the geocoding api for ages.
There
> was some middleware bugs that didn't handle results that were
parsed out.
> The best results are obtained if you use a single "location"
parameter
> delimited with "escaped" address separated with fields delimited
with
> escaped commas (%2C).
>
>
>
> -Alan
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yws-maps@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf
> Of efandango
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:01 PM
> To: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [yws-maps] Why does Yahoo maps find an address, but cannot
find the
> equivilant geocode?
>
>
>
> If I put this into the Yahoo maps search box:
>
> A. BLACKFRIARS RAILWAY STATION, London
> or
> B. BLACKFRIARS RAILWAY STATION, Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4
>
> it finds A perfectly, and it finds B near to the actual location.
>
> But if I parse any of those two 'addresses' through the Yahoo maps
API,
> it doesn't even get close.
>
> This is just one example of a great many addresses that the
standard
> maps page can locate, but the API geocoder gets hopelessly wrong.
>
> Can someone explain what is going wrong with the geocoder?
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Alan,

Thanks for that help and information. I works, just as you say.

a couple more questions if I may...

What happens if the place, or street name that I want to geocode (in
London) has the same name as somewhere else in London? How does it
decide which is the correct one?


Why does the geocoder not want me to give a postcode, I would have
thought that would help target the location more specifically to the
user's requirement?

Is there some online reference to what is best to use/not use for the
gecoder (not whithstanding your suggestions).

thanks

Eric

Hi Mathew,

Thank you very much.

Sadly I must admit I have no clue how to use Perl on my webserver. Do
you have an equivalent in php?

Thanks,
Paul


--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, Mathew <aepod23@...> wrote:
>
> Exclude the line tiger/   (line 3)  That was a typo.
>
> Again good luck,
>   Mathew
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Mathew <aepod23@...> wrote:
>
> > I would suggest using perl Geocoder. I will include the script I
use, it
> > has a few comments with links that you can find more info about
this. Good
> > luck.
> >
> > _______ Perl Script below
> >
> > use Geo::Coder::US;
> > Geo::Coder::US->set_db( "/path/to/geocode.db" );
> > tiger/
> > # Geo-Coder Web Start Point
> > # http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/US.pm
> > # Data to generate geocode.db
> > # http://www2.census.gov/geo/
> > my $outputSent = "false";
> > if ($ARGV[0] ne ""){
> >  my $addressString = $ARGV[0];
> >  print "Lookup Address:" . $addressString . "\n";
> >  my ($coords) = Geo::Coder::US->geocode($addressString);
> >  if($coords->{lat} != ""){
> >   print "$coords->{lat},$coords->{long}\n";
> >   exit;
> >  }
> > }
> > if($outputSent eq "false"){
> >  print "false\n";
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:55 AM, paul_riedel86
<paul_riedel86@...>wrote:
> >
> >>   Hi
> >>
> >> Does someone have an easy (preferably php) parser to input a location
> >> and save only the lat/long of the locations in variables or an array
> >> or so?
> >>
> >> I admit it's laziness talking, but someone must have this already ;)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Paul
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Hi

Is there a way to close all open AutoExpands at once?

Thanks,
Paul

I notice that I can zoom down to a higher resolution on maps.yahoo.com
than I can get using the APIs, which don't seem to go below street
level.  Is there a way to get better zoom using the APIs?

Thanks,

Tom

Hi everyone,
I'm working on a map with several overlays on it, but I noticed that
double click events on the overlays take me to lat 0 and lon 0... do
you know if there's any solution to this?
Thanks

I can draw a box using four co-ordinates, but can I shade it?

Hi!

Using the AJAX API, what's the easiest way to display the distance
between two given markers?

Thanks a lot!!

Paul

I make the users report by the yahoo map.With the number of users  from
different country, I need color different coutry with different color on
the map. For example, the more the number of users are ,the deeper the
country is colored. And in the report, the address basic unit is one
country.

I can't find any API .And I use Flex 3.0 and actionscript to develope
this report.

How to realize that ?

   [:)]





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hello,

I am working on an application in which yahoo maps are used within an OpenGL
world.  I have seen some of the threads here (calculating distance per pixel
etc.) but I am having trouble getting my x/y coordinates translated to
corresponding lat/long.  I am currently fetching 1000x1000 pixels maps at
various zoom levels.

Any pointers towards the math involved will be greatly appreciated.

MiS

Hi Paul,

Something like this worked pretty well for me:

function calcDistance(){
   distance=0;
   var point1;
   var point2;
   if (polylinePoints.length>1){
     for(var i=0;i<polylinePoints.length-1;i++){
       point1 = polylinePoints[i+1];
       point2 = polylinePoints[i];
       distance += point1.distance(point2).kilometers ;
     }
   }
}
alert("my polyline distance is " + calcDistance() + "km");

Where polylinePoints is an array of the points (YGeoPoint objects)
you'd like to calculate the distance between.
   If you want to measure between only two points and not (n) points,
then just have two points in the array.
   If you want the results in miles rather than kilometers, then leave
off the ".kilometers" in the last line of the function. (The default
is miles).

Hope that helps!

Juzzy


--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "paul_riedel86" <paul_riedel86@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Using the AJAX API, what's the easiest way to display the distance
> between two given markers?
>
> Thanks a lot!!
>
> Paul
>

Hi,

I need to find the nearby places (city, countries...) around a point.
I only have longitude and latitude.

It seems the geocode webservice is the perfect match but I can't find
a way to send him longitude and latitude, it only takes human readable
query like: places.q('Springfield') (1).

Do you know a way with our witouth geocoder webservice to get those
informations using lat/long ?

Thanks

[1]
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/guide/resources_and_collections.html#filters
--
Benjamin Francisoud

I just upgraded to Firefox 3and my AJAX API maps no longer show any of
these:
Map Type Control
Map Zoom Control
Map Pan Control

They certainly worked in Firefox 2. They still work fine in IE 6.

I hear that folks had issues with Firefox 3 and Flash maps. Could this
be somehow related?

I have not seen that problem; what is your page?   I've seen the AJAX api
work fine with Firefox 3; maps.yahoo.com uses a version of the AJAX api.



-Alan



   _____

From: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yws-maps@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of silversagittarius
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:27 AM
To: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yws-maps] Pan and Zoom control DO NOT show in Firefox 3 (AJAX API)



I just upgraded to Firefox 3and my AJAX API maps no longer show any of
these:
Map Type Control
Map Zoom Control
Map Pan Control

They certainly worked in Firefox 2. They still work fine in IE 6.

I hear that folks had issues with Firefox 3 and Flash maps. Could this
be somehow related?





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

You need a reverse geocoder.  Yahoo doesn't currently provide that as a
public service.



However ..



www.geonames.org <http://www.geonames.org/>  has a free unlimited service
that can used to find the nearest city.  Then the geoplanet api that we do
provide can be used to

find nearby cities and related places.



http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=47.3
<http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=47.3&lng=9> &lng=9



Documentation:



http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html





-Alan



   _____

From: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yws-maps@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of a_cogito
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:08 AM
To: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yws-maps] Getting places with geocoder webservice using latitude
and longitude query



Hi,

I need to find the nearby places (city, countries...) around a point.
I only have longitude and latitude.

It seems the geocode webservice is the perfect match but I can't find
a way to send him longitude and latitude, it only takes human readable
query like: places.q('Springfield') (1).

Do you know a way with our witouth geocoder webservice to get those
informations using lat/long ?

Thanks

[1]
http://developer.
<http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/guide/resources_and_collections.html#filters
> yahoo.com/geo/guide/resources_and_collections.html#filters
--
Benjamin Francisoud





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Thanks, I'll take a look at it :)

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Brown" <adbrown@...> wrote:
>
> You need a reverse geocoder.  Yahoo doesn't currently provide that as a
> public service.
>
>
>
> However ..
>
>
>
> www.geonames.org <http://www.geonames.org/>  has a free unlimited
service
> that can used to find the nearest city.  Then the geoplanet api that
we do
> provide can be used to
>
> find nearby cities and related places.
>
>
>
> http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=47.3
> <http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=47.3&lng=9> &lng=9
>
>
>
> Documentation:
>
>
>
> http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html
>
>
>
>
>
> -Alan
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yws-maps@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf
> Of a_cogito
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:08 AM
> To: yws-maps@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [yws-maps] Getting places with geocoder webservice using
latitude
> and longitude query
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to find the nearby places (city, countries...) around a point.
> I only have longitude and latitude.
>
> It seems the geocode webservice is the perfect match but I can't find
> a way to send him longitude and latitude, it only takes human readable
> query like: places.q('Springfield') (1).
>
> Do you know a way with our witouth geocoder webservice to get those
> informations using lat/long ?
>
> Thanks
>
> [1]
> http://developer.
>
<http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/guide/resources_and_collections.html#filters
> > yahoo.com/geo/guide/resources_and_collections.html#filters
> --
> Benjamin Francisoud
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

When search business using Latitude & Longitude (by relevance), often
get businesses far away. For example search hotels with Lat. & Long in
San Jose (37 ° 17.7565'  -122 ° 1.9482') will get hotels in San
Francisco and Burlangam (42 miles awar or so) while only 1 or 2 San
Jose area hotels.

If using address to search then no such problem at all, get nice result.

We are not able to use Yahoo Local Search API to search Canada
Business. Are there different set of Yahoo APIs for Canada?

How to cover Yahoo Map and local API for Canada.

Please advise!

Thanks,

James

Dear Alan,

I tried the example published by Yahoo:
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ajax/V3.8/example/controls.html
I used Firefox version 3.0.4 on Windows XP
Zoom, pan, etc. do not show on the map in Firefox 3.0.4
They do show in IE6

I just asked my colleague to check the map and he saw the controls
show up in in his Firefox (3.0.4 as well). This leads me to believe
that there is something off with my instance of the Firefox.

Thank you,
Eugene

--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Brown" <adbrown@...> wrote:
>
> I have not seen that problem; what is your page?   I've seen the
AJAX api
> work fine with Firefox 3; maps.yahoo.com uses a version of the AJAX
api.
>
>
>
> -Alan
>
>
>

I Cannot figure out why this (see below @ bottom)is not adding a label
to my marker?? I'm not good at this stuff...I just need the map w/
property labels on my website b/c it is for a real estate developer.

Thanks!

  <html>
  <head>
  <script type="text/javascript"
 
src="http://api.maps.yahoo.com/ajaxymap?v=3.8&appid=IKDFPrrV34FZkY2ar3EQO2y6Z4Tr\
OAcnWqdCiaQQR2Wq3jAp_KDnCSyvg6SM2r6IGpuGDA"></script>
  <style type="text/css">
  #map{
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  }
  </style>
  </head>
  <body>
  <div id="map"></div>

  <script type="text/javascript">
      // Create a map object
      var map = new YMap(document.getElementById('map'));

      // Add map type control
      map.addTypeControl();

      // Set map type to either of: YAHOO_MAP_SAT, YAHOO_MAP_HYB,
YAHOO_MAP_REG
      map.setMapType(YAHOO_MAP_REG);

      // Display the map centered on a geocoded location
      map.drawZoomAndCenter("60612", 5);

      // Disable zoom
      map.disableKeyControls();

      // Disable Pan on double click
      map.disablePanOnDoubleClick();

     // Create a marker positioned at a lat/lon
      var marker = new YMarker(41.856856,-87.709411);

     //Create a label for marker
      marker.addLabel("Ogden District Flats");

  </script>

  </body>
  </html>

Hey guys,
  I spent the entire day trying to find out WHERE on earth I submit my
georss map to for yahoo to crawl/spider/include it in relevant Yahoo!
Local map searches, but I can't find it.

Yahoo says they support GeoRSS now and you just need to build it and
submit it but it fails to provide a place to submit.

Does anyone know where I can submit my georss file to yahoo maps?

Thanks.

I am trying to convert a Google Map implementation to Yahoo Maps as a
way of getting up to speed.

I want to create a custom marker and the registration point should be
the center of the bottom edge of my image. Easy in GMap you just
specify the offest in image pixels.

The offset property in YMap seems to be map pixels and as soon as the
scale changes the location of my custom icon starts to wander.

icon0.offset=new YCoordPoint(20,38);

This is my offset attempt, the image being 40 pixels wide and 38 high.

Am I supposed to calculate the offset as a proportion of the map width
and height? The only examples I can find all have 0,0 for offset.

TIA

Gary

I have created a multi-instance map.
For each instance on the map, a text link corresponds below the map.

How do I to sync up the link with it's associated geopoint?
The result would be that when you click on the link it focuses on the
geopoint within the API.

I can use JavaScript or PHP.

Thank you.