Yahoo Map API Explained

What Is a Map API?
As an avid web user, you probably use map applications all the time,
even daily. Map applications, like the Yahoo! Maps beta, enable
millions of users to find locations by address, get driving directions
and search for businesses based on location. These useful applications
have become some of the most popular and dependable sets of
functionality on the web. As a web developer, you have probably worked
with APIs. API stands for application programming interface. It is an
interface for programming an application, a collection of functions to
program against. An API, like the Yahoo! Maps API, is designed to
expose key functionality as functions that, when simply added to your
application, enable you to access and control the features of the
application.
A map API enables you to develop with much of the useful and dynamic
functionality of map applications. When it is combined with your
existing application, your users will benefit from unparalleled, very
useful features.
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