Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps?

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 28, 2007 @08:41AM from the two-options-many-permutations dept.

KSobby writes "The organization that I work for is going to be redoing our website in .Net/AJAX. On the site, our members will have profile pages listing where their organizations are located (our members are scattered throughout the world) as well as other pertinent information for the general public. It is a non-profit organization, so funds are tight. My question to you: If we include maps, which API do we go with: Google or Microsoft? We're in a Microsoft environment (we're non-profit and Microsoft basically gives us everything for free) but the ubiquity of Google may be enough to sway us. Has anyone used either extensively? Used them in conjunction with .Net?"

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Maps, maps, maps.... by Bomarc · 2007-09-28 09:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

With Google's new "change the route" - it's cool. Yahoo's maps (old) is better, the new one has issues with moving the maps around (It frequently wants to go back!).... Mapquest sucks (Honest Question: why does anyone use it? - have you seen any of the other map tools?) Yahoo maps also lets me type in notes when I print out the map to actually _drive_ somewhere.