Direction search for India is now available !
April 6, 2008 by Balaji
I was browsing through Yahoo India and noticed something new and was excited to know that direction search for India is now available. It makes our life easy while travelling away from home town. I was looking for different routes in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai and found them to be working fine. It gives you the routes, direction with the distance, approximate auto fare and time, I am sure that the time wouldn’t be correct with growing traffic woes 
Being a QA guy myself, I was testing if Yahoo maps is intelligent. I tried to search for the route between two locations in Chennai (Click Here to check that route) where there is a oneway. Yahoo Maps does consider one way roads while showin the routes. The onward journey shows one route and the reverse route shows a different one. You can also view the content in your regional language on the maps, interesting but not so useful feature.
This will be useful for people like me who live in other cities away from hometown. The images in Yahoo maps is not up to date like in Google Maps. I tried looking for directions within India in Google Maps and the feature isn’t available yet. Interesting! isn’t it?
You might want to check it too…. http://in.maps.yahoo.com
Wonder how the Yahoo team would manage to update the routes in Bangalore where new One ways keep getting created by the day
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