![]() ![]() And maps is an area that Microsoft and Bing could do a great deal more with online and in mobile. Indeed, Microsoft offered user-created maps before Google My Maps and has a great product in Photosyth, which Google has emulated to some degree in a couple of ways. Microsoft has a very strong mapping product that has largely been overshadowed by Google, which has done a better job of PR and communications around maps. I’m not able to speak to the range of technical issues here, but generally it allows for the creation of richer mapping applications. The company also released Silverlight Control for maps. ![]() Microsoft changed the terms of service for Bing Maps for educators, developers and non-profits, essentially making them more generous. In the user-contributed maps, users can sort by categories, content and layers. Easier access to user-generated maps and images in “user-contributed places”.More prominent and simplified directions boxes.LiveSide discovered the changes, which include: Meanwhile Microsoft’s Bing Maps has added some new features and changed the look and feel of the interface slightly. More recently Google has pushed beyond paved highways and onto trials, college campuses and zoos with its Street View trike. From early questions about its utility, Street View has become an important part of the Google Maps offering (and is integrated into the new Android 2.0 Maps Navigation). Since that time there has been considerable controversy around privacy questions but one now gets the sense that this has largely died down in most places. Google launched Street View a little more than two years ago, in May 2007. You can also get these images in Google Maps for Mobile. Google has now added Hawaii to Street View, making it the 50th and final US state to be included in the Maps image database. ![]()
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