iPodiWay -- Yahoo Maps on Your iPod

Now, I love Google Maps. Since its inception, it's been my default online maps site. I view it as the logical evolution of the industry which started with MapQuest and melded into Yahoo! Maps which gave rise to Google Maps. At various times of my Internet chronology, I've been an enthusiastic user of each.

LifeHacker has given us instructions for putting Google Maps on your iPod Photo and now ~~Yahoo~~ a third-party programmer has answered with a web application that allows you to enter directions between two points, then zips the results into a .zip file for download. All you do then is unzip the file and place the images in your Photos library for it to upload to your iPod. ~~Yahoo~~ This service is being called iPodiWay. It's really not a bad idea.

[Edit: Corrected mistaken Yahoo affiliation].

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Steve Denton

Any chance - before you get our hopes up with posts like this - that you could remember to make a distinction between services available to the USA (and Canada in this instance) and the 80-odd-% of the rest of the world?

January 01 2006 at 6:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superg

can anyone get this to work? When I open the .zip file I get an empty folder. Where's the photos?

December 31 2005 at 6:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ross Franklin

Well, to be honest, that really isn't a very clear statement. First, 'Yahoo Maps' is not the name of this service, it's the name of a Yahoo service (not officially, but it's what people say.) An addition, there is no reason to assume that any software developer would have affiliations with a hardware maker, there is no point in saying anything about Apple.

The statement ought to read "iPodiWay has no affiliations with Yahoo."

December 31 2005 at 4:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ron Martinez

This is not offered by Yahoo! Looks like a third party. Clearly states Yahoo! Maps and iPod are not affiliated with this service.

By the way, the tipoff is that a co-branding like this would be headline news.

Ron

December 31 2005 at 1:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Julian

Well, this has been around for a while now, but you are incorrect in asserting that this is Yahoo's offering -- note the following at the top of the webapge: "Yahoo! Maps and Apple iPod are in no way affiliated with this service." A quick look at the page bottom reveals that "This service was developped (sic) by Cr顴ions Wedoonet for Zap Technologies Inc."

December 31 2005 at 1:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark

This is not a service of Yahoo. From the top of the page: "Yahoo! Maps and Apple iPod are in no way affiliated with this service."

December 31 2005 at 1:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ssgelm

For the record, this is not from Yahoo. From the site:
"Yahoo! Maps and Apple iPod are in no way affiliated with this service."

December 31 2005 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rishabh

Microsoft has its own map site at http://local.live.com/ and I have been loving it. Although you cannot add photos to your ipod using Local Live, they have a new feature known as Bird's Eye View, which is kinda cool.

December 31 2005 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply