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Tuesday, July 8. 2008

Podcast: Web Mapping Platform Migration

ESRI Open Source Yahoo MapInfo Geospatial Business

Last week Ask.com moved off its longtime mapping platform to Microsoft's Virtual Earth. What are the practical choices these days for those who want mapping as part of their portals? Has customization and a unique look and feel been overshadowed by a few strong hosted solutions to which everyone will eventually migrate? Our editors sort out the options and trends and end up using the "c" word - commodity.



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