Memory Map
| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 | --Sean |
Yahoo! Maps have pretty much always given you the ability to save locations, so you don't always have to type out your home address or friend's place or that restaurant you really like. However, as a commenter on one of my email lists recently noted, it's somewhat inconvenient to click on the Add Location link and get kicked away from the map you're looking at. It's almost understandable because they give you the option to name the saved location and it doesn't actually have to be the address that you're viewing, but it's still inconvenient... especially if you're looking at the address you want to save... especially if you don't care about giving it a special name.
In those situations, though, there's a little-known feature (to me, at least) that might help: when you mouse over any of your recent locations in the address dropdown (click the down arrow next to the address box), you're given a set of options -- to make the selected address your default location, to save it, or to delete it. So if you type out the address that you want to save and type enter (which you'll presumably do anyway, since you want to go there), you can then add it to your locations by finding it in the list and saving it. If you make it your default address, that's the default view you'll get whenever you open Yahoo! Maps (or when you go to Yahoo! Local, or when you search for movie showtimes...). Or you can delete it when you realize that, say, you don't want to expose your home address to all the readers of your blog when you paste in the screenshot below.
