Goodbye Yahoo! Maps...

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Feb 10 22:14:56 2005

> Yeah, nice interface, but don't try right-clicking so you can save the
> image for a document or anything. You can't.

That's at least partially for technical reasons. The map you see is
rendered as a bunch of tiles, not a single image.

There's a fascinating exploration of the details of how they make
it work here:
    http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-google.html
Received on Thu Feb 10 2005 - 22:14:56 GMT

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