Key facts
- Type of site
- Web mapping
- Available in
- 11 languages
- Owner
- Yandex
- Created by
- Yandex
- Url
- yandex .com /maps /
- Commercial
- Yes
- Registration
- Optional, included with a Yandex account
- Launched
- 27 August 2004 ; 21 years ago ( 2004-08-27 )
- Current status
- Active, developing
- Written in
- C++ (back-end), JavaScript , XML , Ajax (UI)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mobile app
- Founded by
- Yandex
- Owned by
- Yandex
- Author
- Yandex
- Creator
- Yandex
- Developer
- Yandex
- Official website
- yandex.com/maps
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- language of work or name
- Spanish
- inception
- 2004-08-27
- Commons category
- Yandex.Maps
- language used
- Russian
- operating system
- Microsoft Windows
- published in
- Microsoft Store
- social media followers
- 8830
- distributed by
- App Store
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Encyclopedic overview
Yandex Maps (Russian: Яндекс Карты, romanized: Yandeks Karty) is a Russian web mapping service developed by Yandex. The service provides detailed maps of the whole world, directions and estimated times of arrival for driving, walking, cycling, kick scooter, and public transportation navigation. It includes a search, information about traffic jams, routing and street panoramas. The service was launched in 2004.
Yandex Maps is the most popular cartographic service in Russia. It has about 11.5 million users in Russia per month, and over 20 million worldwide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yandex Maps” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.