With the Yahoo! Maps Simple API, you have a very easy way to display your geographical content, build a store locator, plan a pub crawl, or create custom routes. To make things even easier, the API takes actual address information and we handle the geocoding for you — no more messing with preprocessing to generate XML that is already encoded with latitude/longitude!
Developers can use the Yahoo! Maps Simple API to put custom information on a Yahoo! Map without programming. Your map is displayed on the Yahoo! Maps web site, linking easily to all the resources of Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Local.
Using data formatted in Web-standard RSS format combined with either longitude/latitude or address information, you can plot up to 100 points on a map, including custom description, URLs, labels, groups, icons and more. See our Application Gallery for more ideas.
To help you get started, read about getting up and running below, check out the documentation, and join the Yahoo! Maps developer mailing list.
To access the Simple Maps API, you will need to get an application ID. It's easy and free.
Read the online Reference Manual to see how you can take advantage of the Yahoo! Maps Simple API with no programming required. See also our Yahoo! Web Services FAQ to help you get started with key concepts.
You can access the API as simply as passing an XML file for display on maps.yahoo.com. We have sample code to help you construct your XML input file. You can invoke the API with either "get" or "post" requests.
The Yahoo! Maps Simple API has no rate limit.
Use of the Yahoo! Maps APIs is governed by the Yahoo! Maps APIs Terms of Use and the Yahoo! Maps Terms of Use. These Terms of Use supplant the general Yahoo! Developer Network Terms of Use. See also the Usage Policy for more information about acceptable usage of these APIs or to request additional queries.
All Yahoo! Maps Web Services are discussed on the yws-maps mailing list.
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