Today I was tipped off about Bing Streetside now being available in the UK. I was very excited by this news and am please to finally be able to tell my readers that Streetside is now available to people outside of the US for the first time. There has been a lot of talk and [...]

I’ve often wondered how Microsoft would best be able to show off its Photosynths and technology for overlaying Bing Maps 3D images with user taken photos and videos. Yes, those things all make great tech demos but aren’t exactly obvious to the average user to find or use. However an announcement yesterday by Blaise Aguera [...]

This is excellent news and seems to be hot off the presses; Microsoft will soon be bringing Streetside to Europe. The information has come via the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones who linked to a new site microsoftstreetside.co.uk which was only registered 5 days ago. I, of course, might have been somewhat blind and not seen this [...]

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 [...]