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The Bing Maps Blog announced several enhancements to Bing Maps. In summary, the changes include: A refresh to the Pushpin buttons and Popup menu Transit symbols and icons were improved Added ...
High-res imagery and a slick user interface make the Bing Maps Beta one of the best new Bing features, but it still has a long way to go to match Google's breadth.
But Bing is doing some innovative things here. In Google Maps, when you leave one area and walk down the street to another, the images blur together for a moment in a sort of "light speed" effect.
The new Bing Maps interface, though, puts Map Apps front and center, exposing them to all users right from the home page; they’re the fourth and final link in the new, left-side menu bar below ...
The Bing team seems to conceive of Maps mostly as a virtual reality engine, an entertaining relative of Netflix and other related tools. (Not that this is a bad thing -- not at all.) ...
In its latest update to Bing Maps, Microsoft just published a very large amount (270TB) of Bird’s Eye imagery — 100,000 DVD’s worth — and beefed up its Venue Maps… ...
Bing now has 11.3% of the U.S. search market, thanks in no small part, I'm sure, to the fabulous, mind-bending progress of Bing Maps. To see what Bing is up to, check out this TED Talk by ...
Bing Maps are a cluttered mess. I will not be revisiting Bing Maps and see little reason why a business map user would stay as long as I did to write this piece. Put simply: Bing is trying too hard.
It’s tempting to compare Bing Maps Beta, Microsoft’s revamped mapping service, to Google Maps. And the two services do have plenty of common features. But once you start exploring Bing Maps ...
Here at Where 2.0, Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft (at right) – and the lead developer on Bing Maps – showed off Bing Maps’ Foursquare integration. While still in the a limited release ...
Bing Maps moves beyond Silverlight and AJAX with the new native WPF Control, which enables you to build interactive tools for visualizing geographical data on the desktop. Released in January, version ...