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The title of the article is just silly, sounds like a 13 year old came up with it. However, having used Bing maps, it seems like a great alternative to Google Maps. Both have Streetview, Transit maps and can also detect nearby businesses. The Bing map's layout and typography looks much cleaner and fresher than Google, but that's just my personal opinion. http://binged.it/TDK322 http://goo.gl/maps/N06xc
The title of the article is just silly, sounds like a 13 year old came up with it. However, having used Bing maps, it seems like a great alternative to Google Maps. Both have Streetview, Transit maps and can also detect nearby businesses. The Bing map's layout and typography looks much cleaner and fresher than Google, but that's just my personal opinion. http://binged.it/TDK322 http://goo.gl/maps/N06xc
Like most others with iOS6 maps I've had my share of troubles and was excited to try this out when I saw the post. My wife gave birth a few days ago and so the first thing that came to my mind was the name of the hospital - a major hospital in LA. Unfortunately, bing failed utterly. "No results found. Pan to a different area and try again". At this point I'm zoomed to all of LA. I tried again, no dice. Apple maps not…
I love the app more. I loaded it up the first time and saw how it highlights parks with very vivid colors instead of a light gray outline. My first thought was "I live next to a park???" Low and behold... I live next to a park that I never knew about.
Dunno, I installed it, popped in an address and it just sits and spins forever. iOS 5.1 maps comes back immediately.
The title of the article is just silly, sounds like a 13 year old came up with it. However, having used Bing maps, it seems like a great alternative to Google Maps. Both have Streetview, Transit maps and can also detect nearby businesses. The Bing map's layout and typography looks much cleaner and fresher than Google, but that's just my personal opinion. http://binged.it/TDK322 http://goo.gl/maps/N06xc
I don't know about that. Google has done a fantastic job at a lot of details such as colors and readability of street names that really improve usability. In the Bing version, the color palette is much closer together and less visually distinguishable. And Google Maps is the only map service I've ever encountered that does zooming in and out in a non-jarring way.
This made me recall this great comparison between Google and Bing Maps from 2011: http://www.hostileuser.com/2011/01/06/google-map-legibility/
Added: It appears the source is no longer available.
Strangely, Microsoft hasn't put the Bing app in the Canadian app store. The app's been out for ages now, and is still US only (as far as I know?). I can't for the life of me figure out a good reason for this. Bing.com has local search results for Canada, so it's not that. Not that it's putting me out. I can search bing from Safari. Just a strange move on their part. It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the…
Isn't in my mainland europe store either, though I have "Bing Get MeThere" which is apparently for London traffic and public transport (I'm not in the UK).
> It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the international version got fired and nobody checked his pending workload.
And considering the biggest issues Apple Maps have are outside the US, really doesn't make much sense to promote Bing Maps when they're not available to those who'd benefit most from them.
The title of the article is just silly, sounds like a 13 year old came up with it. However, having used Bing maps, it seems like a great alternative to Google Maps. Both have Streetview, Transit maps and can also detect nearby businesses. The Bing map's layout and typography looks much cleaner and fresher than Google, but that's just my personal opinion. http://binged.it/TDK322 http://goo.gl/maps/N06xc
> http://binged.it/TDK322 The map is not shown when accessing it from India!!!
Edit: You will see the new bing maps once you change country to USA. Which is way better than older version.
Strangely, Microsoft hasn't put the Bing app in the Canadian app store. The app's been out for ages now, and is still US only (as far as I know?). I can't for the life of me figure out a good reason for this. Bing.com has local search results for Canada, so it's not that. Not that it's putting me out. I can search bing from Safari. Just a strange move on their part. It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the…
A lot of features are disabled for no good reason, and the rest of them has no data for Denmark.
For example when you play music on your phone you can set it to show pictures of the artist on the lock screen. On my phone the background just turns red. Also Local scout is disabled, though there aren't any data for it in Denmark anyway...