The making of Streetside

By Sunshine on May 6, 2010 11:28 AM

6 comments

Don’t we all just love photography? I know I do! After all, what better way to share what you’ve seen? It was only yesterday that I was out taking pictures of the Liberation Day festivities here! Where am I going with this? Streetside in Bing maps is also photography, but taken to a whole different level!

Chris Pendleton (Bing Maps Technical Evangelist) and Pasquale DeMaio (Bing Maps program Manager) have a video up on Channel 9 which gives you a little sneak peak into how the Streetside user experience for Bing Maps gets created. I’ve embedded it below for you.

Enjoy!

Posted in Bing | Tags: Maps

Comments

http://menthix.net/ Menthix

Impressive stuff.

I know Bing Maps is technically superior, yet I still find myself using Google Maps all the time. Damn you Google for being the go to guy ;p.

http://gregsedwards.wordpress.com Greg Edwards

I’m finding myself using Bing Maps more and more, but the fact is that Google Maps currently has more Street View data available. I live in Knoxville, TN and we’ve been fully mapped on Street View for over a year. Bing hasn’t incorporated our area yet. For those areas that are lucky enough to have StreetSide…boy howdy, it rocks!

Chris

While nothing can beat street side/view, birds eye view is one thing that surpass google maps by the mile.

Plus, it seems Bing is adding more and more high res imagery like today’s recent update.

http://www.facebook.com/phillipslive Mark Phillips

I surprised a link wasn’t given to test the new streetside technology.

Anyone interested can have a play over at http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/

Sunshine – LiveSide.net

Edited the Bing Maps link from regular to Explore one now, thanks :)

Sunshine – LiveSide.net

Edited the Bing Maps link from regular to the explore one now, thanks :)

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