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Is Bing Maps trying to out-do Google Maps?

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Microsoft’s Bing Maps for the desktop–and soon for Windows Mobile–seems to be taking on Google Maps and doing it well. They already have some features in place such as the “Bird’s Eye” viewing feature that I like a lot. Over the next couple months Bing Maps will be getting some new local features so consumers can explore their neighborhoods, upload photos and have them stitched together, and have an interactive experience with the Bing Maps interface. So will it be better than Google Maps?

Tell us your thoughts, you can explore some of these new features at http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/.

~~Strike 1 for me is that it doesn’t work in Google Chrome.~~

Update: Stefan @bing let me know that it was an issue with not having Silverlight. Installed and now it works beautifully in Chrome. No more strikes…

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Bing for Mobile: Is change good?

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Bing has recently released Bing Maps for a Windows Phone, Blackberry and iPhone. It’s pretty different from the Google Maps experience so you’ll have to decide if that’s a good thing or bad thing. So check it out for yourself by heading to m.bing.com and downloading it directly to your phone.

Let us know your thoughts.

[via PocketNow.com]

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Could this be Apple Navigation?

Friday, December 11th, 2009

MacRumors has found about an Apple job listing that, uncharacteristically for Apple, hints at a possible mapping service from Apple. The company is seeking an iPhone Software Engineer that will join Apple’s team developing the Maps application for the iPhone OS. Apple says the chosen individual and his colleagues will be tasked to take the Maps app “the next level”:

We want to take Maps to the next level, rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find things. We want to do this in a seamless, highly interactive and enjoyable way. We’ve only just started.

I wonder if this means Google isn’t planing on bringing Google Navigation to the iPhone.

[via Geek.com]

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Google Maps Finally Gets Turn-by-Turn

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I’ve been saying for years that Google Maps should have turn by turn. Well today my dream came true. With Google and Verizon Wireless announcing the Motorola Droid, Google has announced the new Google Maps Navigation, which will give turn-turn driving directions, traffic information from multiple sources, voice search that includes soft searches, and layers of traffic and visual data, not to mention getting watching where you go through Street View. The price? Free. So you say this must be too good to be true. In a way it is. At this time, Google Maps with voice guidance is limited to Android 2.0.

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