Vlad

Big Brother is here:

Following last fall’s reports about Google Street View cars spotted in Eastern Europe, it seems it’s NORC that’s been pushing the first Street View for Romania (and other places in Eastern Europe).

The images are at a decent resolution and they seem quite well-processed (manually edited to at least blur out vehicle registration plates). Of course, the overall look and feel is not as well polished as Google’s own service but it’s a huge step, considering the big players don’t even have decent road-maps for this area.

UPDATE: Fixed by Yahoo!

Seems like someone messed up! Yahoo Maps’ AJAX API is broken and Firebug prints this lovely message:

YAHOO.util.CustomEvent is not a constructor

A quick workaround is to grab the output from”

http://api.maps.yahoo.com/ajaxymap?v=(version)&appid=(apikey)

and look for

http://in.maps.yahoo.com/js

Replace that with:

http://in.maps.yahoo.com/v(version)/aj

Then replace your call to the AJAX API:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.maps.yahoo.com/ajaxymap?v=(version)&appid=(apikey)"></script>

with the modified output from that script:

<script type="text/javascript">
var YAHOO=window.YAHOO||{};
YAHOO.namespace=function(_1){
    if(!_1||!_1.length){ return null; }
    var _2=_1.split(".");
    var _3=YAHOO;
    for(var i=(_2[0]=="YAHOO")?1:0;i<_2.length;++i){
        _3[_2[i]]=_3[_2[i]]||{};
        _3=_3[_2[i]];
    }
    return _3;
};
YAHOO.namespace("util");
YAHOO.namespace("widget");
YAHOO.namespace("example");
var YMAPPID = "(apikey)";
function _ywjs(inc) { var o='<'+'script src="'+inc+'"'+' type="text/javascript"><'+'/script>'; document.write(o); }
_ywjs('http://in.maps.yahoo.com/v(version)/aj/y.js');
_ywjs('http://in.maps.yahoo.com/v(version)/aj/ymapapi.js?v=(full_version)');
_ywjs('http://in.maps.yahoo.com/v(version)/aj/ymic_4.js');
</script>

This is a temporary workaround, YAHOO! will probably fix this really soon!

PS: Remember to replace (apikey), (version) and (full_version) with the proper  values!