You can connect your Facebook account with the app to get personalized reviews and recommendations. The search feature works brilliantly, letting you find restaurants, coffee shops, business locations and more, complete with reviews left by other users and details about the business. There’s also a street level view available for many spots, letting you explore the place as if you were standing right there. are missing, again, it’s just a preview for now, and Microsoft is working on bringing every major global city to the mix before the final release.įor the available cities, you can pan, zoom and rotate their map in 3D using the conveniently placed buttons on the left, as well as keyboard and mouse shortcuts. You really have to take a look at them to see just how good and realistic they are!Ĭurrently, 3D maps of 70 cities are available and while a lot of major cities like New York City, London, Paris, Rome, Sydney, Dubai, Tokyo etc. While the app comes with a lot of new features as well as many usability improvements to existing ones, the most significant change is the inclusion of stunning 3D maps of several cities from North America, Europe and Australia. Also, the preview is available only for Windows 8.1.
For this purpose, it doesn’t replace the existing Bing Maps app. Join us as we take a closer look at a preview of the future of Bing Maps.Īs the name of the app suggests, it’s meant to give users an insight on what Microsoft is working on for its Bing Maps product, rather than a final, release version of the app. It seems Microsoft has been working really hard on improving Bing Maps, and while they still have a long way to go to map all the major cities in the world in 3D, what they have accomplished so far is remarkable. Though it takes a whole lot of time and effort to map the entire planet in an effective manner, so Google’s offering still remained on top, but if what we have just seen in the Bing Maps Preview for Windows 8.1 is to be taken as a sign of things to come, all that may soon change. It all started to change when both Apple and Microsoft decided to enter the arena with their own mapping products. Till just a few years ago, Google Maps was the primary mapping service of choice for pretty much every internet user, because it was the only option available that offered enough features at an unbeatable price tag of free.
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