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August 16, 2005

A9 Officially Launches Maps Service; Block View Imagery Added for More Cities

If you've come across the story today about A9 launching a map service and it sounds familiar, it just might be. About 6 weeks ago I blogged a couple of comments about the service becoming available and included a link to an overview by Greg Linden.

So, what's really new at A9 today? "Block View" imagery has been made available for a few more cities:

  • Salt Lake City, UT
  • Sacramento, CA
  • Long Beach, CA
  • Reno, NV

Btw, in April ago I posted that Block View imagery for Fargo, ND had been made available and was puzzled why, up to this point, a small town was included when A9 had been focusing on collecting and making available imagery for larger US cities and metro areas.

So, why Fargo? A couple of weeks ago A9's CEO, Udi Manber, told Danny:

"The reason we have Fargo is one of the engineers lives there. He took the equipment home and did the whole place in a day."

So, I'm thinking that if you don't have an A9 engineer living in your small town, don't expect to see Block View imagery anytime soon. (-:

Posted by Gary Price at 10:25 AM | Permalink

June 30, 2005

The Birth of A9 Maps; Block View Imagery Added for More Cities

With the release of API's for Google Maps and Yahoo Maps, non-developers might be start thinking that there is nothing new in the world of online maps to talk about. WRONG. Greg Linden has an overview on his blog about the new online maps from A9.com.

I've only had a short time to use A9 Maps but will try to spend more time using the service over the weekend. However, after just using A9 Maps for a few minutes, I have to agree with Greg, they've has done an impressive job of integrating the maps with the "block view" imagery they began offering in January as part of their visual yellow pages service.

and speaking of the A9 Visual Yellow Pages...

I've also noticed that A9 has added "block view" imagery for several more cities.

Here's a list of the new locations:

  • Austin, TX
  • Detroit
  • Philadelphia
  • San Diego
  • San Jose (previously listed with San Francisco/Bay Area)

Posted by Gary Price at 10:16 AM | Permalink

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