Microsoft sharpens Bing's street-level map images

In addition to this smoother sideways-panning navigation, the Streetside interface now has a strip at the top that shows a map image indicating the block being viewed and a strip at the bottom with information like street names, business listings, bus stops and storefronts.

The research came from a project at the Microsoft technology unit called Street Slide. It works only on desktop browsers.

The user experience of people using Bing Maps

These ground-level images enhance the user experience of people using Bing Maps and Google Maps to obtain driving directions, and make these search engines' business-listings data more visually attractive.