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After Little Resistance in Germany, Bing Expands Streetside Photos Across Europe by @mattmcgee
Oct 10th
Microsoft’s Streetside photo service will be taking photos across Europe before the end of the year. The expansion comes on the heels of its launch in Germany earlier this year — a move that’s generated far less resistance than Google’s Street View service.
According to German news reports today,…
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Bing Maps Changes View of Streetside
Jun 1st
Bing Maps announced changes to it’s Streetside view. Using a novel interface, Bing has flattened steet-level images and lets you scroll the images as one gigantic panorama to navigate the map. Previously, Bing Maps had 360-degree panoramas in Stre…
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Bing Maps Rolls Out Some Impressive Changes to Its Streetside View
May 31st
Bing has unveiled some changes to Bing Maps today that give users a much better view of the street. The newly improved Streetside feature in Bing Maps doesn’t just show you the street, but lets you pan up and down it with a seamless, panoramic view of the surrounding location.
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It’s easy to see this update to Bing Maps as something that will differentiate the product from Google Maps, the former offers Streetside View and the latter offers Street View. And lest one make too much out of the different names here, it definitely feels as though the update to Bing Maps gives you a better glimpse from the side of the street, not just from the street itself (or from a vehicle snapping photos to build those very maps).
In unveiling the update, Microsoft says that “In the past you explored Streetside imagery by navigating between ‘bubbles,’ or discrete 360 degree views, and moving down the street was accomplished by jumping from bubble to bubble.”
Now the navigation through the map is smoother, and you can easily pan up and down the street. Above the street view is a map so you can keep track of where you are via the visual cues from the photography or via a more traditional map of streets and addresses.
This new feature is the result of technology developed by Microsoft Research’s Street Slide project, which ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick called “better than Google Street View” when he wrote about a video demo of the technology last year. For its part, Google has sent its Street View vehicle all over thee world, raising numerous privacy concerns along the way. Bing Maps’ Streetside isn’t available everywhere yet, but if Microsoft wants to take on Google in this realm, it will have to make sure it’s mapping cars aren’t too far behind.
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Into The Lion’s Den: Microsoft Launching Streetside In Germany
Apr 6th
Hoping to avoid the problems that have plagued Google’s Street View service, Microsoft says it will launch its version — Streetside — in Germany next month. Microsoft Germany tells Deutsche Welle that Streetside vehicles will begin driving in four cities (Nuremberg, Furth,…
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Microsoft’s Bing Maps Gets Awesome Streetside Photos
Feb 16th
Microsoft’s Bing Maps Gets Awesome Streetside Photos
Because they so often try and fail, it’s fun to report when Microsoft pulls off something really cool. Check out Bing Maps new Streetside Photos app in the video above. It’s like the old …
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