Bing Videomap Directions
Description
As you look at things like Bing's
Streetside, you might be thinking it would be great for something like real time driving directions. Billy Chen, a research in MSN's Advanced Engineering team, has been thinking
about this from the ground up. The result is this interesting way of connecting the visual memory humans have from having driven to a location before with a movie created from the slides from point A to B in Bing maps. Billy joined us to tell us more about
this project.
Share
Download
Download this episode
- High Quality WMV (252.7 MB)
- MP3 (5.2 MB)
- Low Quality MP4 (100.0 MB)
- Mid Quality WMV (132.8 MB)
More episodes in this series
Progression of the Iconic Background
Related episodes
Bing Videomap Directions
Expert to Expert: Gur Kimchi - Inside Bing Maps (aka Virtual Earth)
Ping 156: Bing Maps, SQL database update, Kinect in the movies, Coding marathon
Ping 147: Bing Fund, Maccabees Kinect Video, Bing Maps, MSNBC
Apache Cordova Plugins for Windows Phone
Ping 103: DJ'ing with Windows 7, Hacker hired, Xbox usage, Panoramic street views
Building applications with Bing Maps : what is the opportunity for ISVs
Avalara Maps Sales Taxes on Windows Azure
Windows Phone 7 Location Services (GPS/Maps) QuickApp (Using Silverlight for Windows Phone…
Bing Maps Module for Drupal
The Discussion
-
ivan_ Very nice piece of work!
What will happen when there is no available street view on some portions of the route?
There is usually no street view available for freeways, but, o boy, how often do I use them
and some ramps are very wierd, so video would be helpful there as well.
I also noticed on some of the left turns either video expanded to the right and we could not see it or it didn't expand at all.
Oh yes, WinMo Bing Maps need a lot of work. It is very unfinished product, so these video, or at least snapshots of landmarks on WinMo would be of great help.
-
Bas So where's the link to the website?
-
LarryLarsen This is the best link so far: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cohen/vdd_webpage/
-
natelawrence Great choice, Larry. Bill is full of interesting ideas. I've kept an eye on what he was up to ever since watching a video of Blaise A., Eyal O., and Bill (Open in IE) talking about Virtual Earth futures a couple years back.
Niners might find useful his MSR profile, his blog where he writes up other researchers, his twitter account, or his Photosynth account which contains some interesting calibration tests for Photosynth.
-
videomap While research is good but what about already commercialized videomaps?
check out www.vidteq.com
-
natelawrence I'm sure that the Bing Maps team is working on implementing this. They simply need more Streetside footage to be captured to really apply it.