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Im wondering if there is a way to hit a certain map page on yahoo.com's map page. Can I pass the street address and zip as values to the lookup page on yahoo?

Is your address dynamic, or will it be the same every time?

Actually it was the same every time but the dynamic would be cool for other projects.

This one it turned out that I was able to just put the address string in from the map that I wanted and it worked just fine. I knew it was pulling it from a database so I didn’t know if that was going to work. I think the page uses the “get” method and so uses the query string in the URL.

Yes, that's what I was going to suggest for a constant address. You can see the city/state/zip (csz) and country info, but the street address info is apparently encrypted, perhaps to keep people from using the map service for free. I think you can pay them to let you embed a map in your page.

Actually some where in one of my books there is an exorcize that uses / searches Yahoos map page. It is one however that I have skipped over because I was busy with other stuff at the time. I’m pretty sure it is one of the “Friends of Ed” books.

Yeah, I was going to say ( ) if you're not obsessed with using yahoo maps, mapquest might be the way to go...