Google Maps + Yahoo! Traffic Back Online

A month or so, the google maps/yahoo-traffic mashup site went dark, as Yahoo! removed lat/long data from their RSS feeds. The developer, Grg Woo Ouais, rebuilt the site with data from traffic.com, but the takedown was still disappointing.
 

I mentioned the problem to David Filo and Jerry Yang at D (they weren’t aware of the takedown), and got their support for the general idea of new applications built by combining data services from multiple web sites. I also talked to Paul Levine, the General Manager of Yahoo! Local, about the problem. Paul immediately committed to look into it. So I was delighted to hear from Paul today by email:

I wanted to let you know that the Yahoo traffic mashup is back.
Lat/long is back in our RSS feed and live on this site.

 

We’re very committed to opening our technology to the developer
community, and you can look for more to come in this area.

This is cool. The Web 2.0 vision is really starting to come alive! And the Where 2.0 subsystem :-) is where we’re seeing some of the first traction. (Incidentially, both Paul Levine and Grg Woo Ouais will be speaking at our Where 2.0 Conference in San Francisco June 29-30.

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