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Bing adds Shopping Mall maps

Mar 23, 2011 9:52 am by Kip Kniskern | 5 comments

Last week our friend PicturePan2 was here from Shanghai, and I spent more time in shopping malls (looking for the elusive iPad2, long story) than I had in years. We could have really used Bing’s Shopping Mall maps! For those of you a bit more likely to frequent Shopping Malls (or perhaps, like me, you only go once every few years), Bing has announced today that they’ve expanded their Shopping Mall maps to now include 148 malls in more than 20 US states:

As you can see, once you search on your favorite mall a “Mall Map” link shows up when available. The links also show up on search results for individual stores, so that if you’re searching, in this case, for Stride Rite, you could click on the Mall Map link and know right where to park.

Mall Maps are available for the 9 largest “enclosed malls by square feet in the US”, something that the “International Council of Shopping Centers” keeps track of, who knew.

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Anonymous
Other countries exist as well as the US, Bing. Did you not realise that other people like new features as well?
It’s a nice feature. I could do with it for the White Rose shopping centre and Meadow Hall.
Bing, are you reading this?
Anonymous
Sigh. Well it’s better than nothing.
I looked at the largest mall for Houston, TX, the Galleria. Unfortunately, it only shows the first floor. Also, while there is a good section of the first floor shown, there’s obviously more parts of the first floor that has zero data as to what stores lie there. Kinda like a partial mall map…Google isn’t really that better though, for the same mall. Wish Bing would just put all points of interests laid out like Google Maps in road view does.
- Justin
  Though hard to find, you can change floors by using the drop down in the navigation bar (by the compass at the top of the map). For the Galleria, you should see all 3 floors.
  - Anonymous
    Oh! That makes much more sense now. By default, I only saw the 3rd floor, which is why I saw less mall stores than there should have been. If only they could make it more apparent to users to navigate through floors via the location breadcrumb. Thanks for telling me.
Bing Maps
@Doctorwhofan98: We’ll keep those malls in mind when we expand internationally. Thanks for the feedback.
@quikboy: Thanks for the feedback on the floors. We’ll pass it on to the feature team.
Roberto B.
Bing Maps