Perspectives

I would like YIM to stand for Yahoo! India maps. Unofficially, a couple of us assumed our mission statement to be “Go Anywhere” . So, what is so cool ? Frankly, nothing as of now. Anyways, read on.

Firstly. We cannot find your house. I will be sweetly surprised if we can. We are far away from that. But it will happen.
We dont give you driving directions just as yet. There are a few challenges there.
We do have satellite and hybrid imagery for many popular places.
We are quite comprehensive on mapping data when you consider whole of India. Our search is getting better. You still have to be very explicit and try out a few things before you get a hang of it.
The link of the map you are viewing is always on your browser’s address bar. You dont have to do anything special to get a link to the map. Just copy paste it. so, this is roughly where Yahoo is , in Bangalore.

Oh, by the way, there is no reason you should have to visit another destination to search for a non Indian address. If Yahoo! works for that address anywhere on the planet, you can have a look at it right here in India maps. Check out paris or 10, downing st, london here.

Are you used to searching for India by typing in http://wikipedia.org/wiki/India ? Try http://in.maps.yahoo.com/kolkata

You can search for Airport codes. For instance, IXB is baghdogra’s airport code. You can get to it this way.

Would you prefer Anna salai, nandanam, Chennai ? Or mount road, nandanam, madras? We love both.

There are a lot more cool things in there waiting to be figured out and a lot is in store. I hope you all have a good time finding your places and like it as we move along.