Bing Maps have released a new Map App for its Silverlight version that allows users’ geotagged, photos to be pulled from Flickr and overlaid to the exact position in the real world called Streetside Photos. The results of this can be absolutely stunning as seen below.

Currently this feature only works in Seattle, San Francisco and Vancouver (should make for interesting photos during the olympics) and I hope the service quickly expands and brings Streetside to the rest of the world. To me this is a brilliant addition to Bing Maps and should take the platform into the mainstream when this properly launches, Google Maps currently don’t have anything this advanced. As always a few things should be changed like allow users to upload photos within the app of a location or have a wider range of places the app pulls photos from including Windows Live Photos.

Check out this video demoing the new app.

Bing Maps has a few other features coming soon which include integrating World Wide Telescope into Bing Maps to allow users to literally look up within the service and see the sky at night with “constellations coming to life” (demoed in the above video). Streetside will also be going indoors so users can explore places vehicles cant get too, the example supplied was Seattle’s Pike Place Market and the other feature coming is technology that will allow real-time videos to be overlaid just like the pictures in the new app.

Liveside found this video which demonstrates indoor Streetside and real-time video overlays.

I know I can’t wait to play around with these upcoming features, they look brilliant.