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Yahoo Maps adds indoor navigation powered by Nokia Here
Google Maps has offered indoor floor plans for quite some time, and now Yahoo is doing the same. Thanks to Nokia Here, Yahoo Maps now packs building layouts, directories and contact info for places like shopping malls, train stations and airports. This means you'll be able to locate restrooms and ATMs across multiple levels of football stadiums and other places in advance. The Finnish company introduced venue mapping back in 2012, and has since amassed info on over 75,000 venues. The Here integration should come as no surprise, though, as Yahoo and Nokia have been collaborating on cartography since 2010.
Get Yahoo Maps directions on your iPod
File this under "do it before they get a cease-and-desist" letter. iPod Directions is using the Yahoo Maps API and some clever coding to make it super easy for you to grab directions (and maps!) and put those in your iPod. Or is it on your iPod? Either way, this is a lot quicker than the way I've been doing it, which involves something known as "pen and paper" attaching the directions directly to my iPod with a "rubber band." That puts them on my iPod. Anyway, all you have to do is put in the start and finish address, and you get a nifty little ZIP file. Open it and put the contents in your iTunes Photos folder, sync, and away you go. Nifty.
