Other sites have offered this before so we've been waiting for it to arrive a Yahoo! Maps. For instance, Google has had this and many people favor Google Maps because of it. Now that both offer satellite imagery, I wondered how they compared. So I ran a little test.
Here's my neighborhood as seen with Yahoo! Maps beta satellite imagery at a very close zoom:
And here it is using Google Maps satellite imagery at a little less zoom:
(if you can't make out the fine print, it says, "We are sorry but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region. Try zooming out for a broader look.")
Okay. I've zoomed out until the satellite imagery was available. Here's the best Google can offer:
Yahoo's is well worth the wait.
4/11/06 UPDATE: Jeremy has done a similar comparision and shows the results on his blog.
4/12/06 UPDATE: All the features and such are discussed at the "Official" Yahoo! blog.
1. Check out the map of California on Y! and Google. It's interesting to note that Google's is a big patchwork of images from different satellites while the Y! map looks much nicer, like it was all taken at the same time.
Posted at 11:34PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Ryan