Submitted by johnh on June 24, 2007 - 09:55.
Ring the bells. Hang out the bunting.
Yahoo Maps has already given all and sundry full permission to use its satellite imagery as something we can trace into Openstreetmap.
I've just noticed this morning that the satellite imagery for Ireland has jumped up in resolution to the extent that we can now trace streets here. Yay.
At this point in the narrative I usually don't bother to mention that I tried a street-level lookup just in case, and it didn't work.
Not today!
How about "387 Blarney Street, Cork, County Cork, Ireland"?
It gets better. That pin was really put in the right house. Really: look up the road at number 64 instead to see what I mean.
Oh, my. Could it possibly get any better than this? Well, yes. If we were wishing beyond our wildest hopes and dreams, they'd have added all this new sexiness to the Yahoo Maps Geocoding API. But that would just be a silly thing to ask for. Wouldn't it?