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Yahoo News reports " SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has begun publicly testing two Web services that are the fruit of intensive, one-day internal programming competitions the company has been hosting to foster employee innovation.
One of them, MapMixer, will let users take the millions of maps on the Web and overlay them onto the same locations on Yahoo Maps -- creating hybrid maps that work independently of the underlying format or structure of the different maps."
"MapMixer is now being publicly tested and can be found on a link off Yahoo Maps or at http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer/. Once on the MapMixer page, users can upload a map in a variety of image formats, including popular types such as .jpeg or .gif."
One of them, MapMixer, will let users take the millions of maps on the Web and overlay them onto the same locations on Yahoo Maps -- creating hybrid maps that work independently of the underlying format or structure of the different maps."
"MapMixer is now being publicly tested and can be found on a link off Yahoo Maps or at http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer/. Once on the MapMixer page, users can upload a map in a variety of image formats, including popular types such as .jpeg or .gif."
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