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Yeah, the pricing is absolutely ridiculous. At least there are alternatives: 1) Yahoo maps 2) Bing maps 3) OpenStreetMap 4) Nokia Maps 5) Cloudmade

• shashashasha 15y ago
  There's also (I'm as surprised as you are) Mapquest. They have a whole host of open APIs now, built on OSM, and even have web services like directions/elevation: http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/directions-service http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/directions-s...
  • chollida1 15y ago
    Ahh Mapquest. I'd forgotten all about them. They are one of the poster children for early success and then resting on their laurels while the competition ate their lunch.
  • rhizome 15y ago
    Except MapQuest is yucky.
• tomkarlo 15y ago
  I believe Yahoo! is out of the maps API business as of September. http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/