Bing Maps brings back 360º immersive panorama view, in addition to Street Slide

Back in May this year, we first noticed that Microsoft had replaced Bing Map’s Streetside panoramic view with Microsoft Research’s “Street Slide”, which lets users navigate street level imagery sideways rather than a full ... Read more »

Gigwalk to bring 3D Panoramas to Bing–from your iPhone

Bing is partnering with a new 9 week old company, Gigwalk, “the first on-demand mobile workforce” to bring 3D Photosynth panoramas of retail stores and restaurants into Bing Maps.  Gigwalk uses a mobile workforce ... Read more »

New Bing Maps Streetside view (officially) announced

In a blog post today, our old friend Chris Pendleton officially announces a new version of Bing Maps Streetside, which now uses the Microsoft Research Street Slide technology.  We told you about the apparent ... Read more »

Bing Maps Part Two: is Streetside now Street Slide?

Just now when writing up the previous post on Bing Streetside coming to UK maps, we noticed something quite interesting: our Bing Maps Streetside has morphed into what Microsoft Research has called “Street Slide”: ... Read more »

Bing Streetside coming soon to UK?

Bing Maps Streetside, which provides an “on the ground” look at mapping locations, allowing you to “walk” certain streets and see stitched together photographic images of the area, has only up until this point ... Read more »

Bing announces Read/Write World: expanding connections between maps and imagery

Bing has been making a steady stream of announcements regarding the connection of maps to images for quite some time now, from geo-located PhotoSynths to Streetside and StreetSlide imagery to live video in maps, ... Read more »

Bing: Streetside for Germany, and the return of the Like button

Little bits of Bing news popping up all over: first up is news via Search Engine Land that Bing Maps is about to fire up its Streetside photo cars in Germany.  A recent court ... Read more »

Another new look for Bing Maps

Bing Maps has rolled out a new look today to coincide with the “AJAX V7 Control”, eliminating the need for Silverlight to view enhanced Bird’s Eye map views.  Silverlight remains a big part of ... Read more »