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Microsoft Unveils Street Slide Map UI

Posted by kdawson on from the how-it-ought-to-be dept.

theodp writes "For show-and-tell at SIGGRAPH 2010, Microsoft Research brought Street Slide, 'a multi-perspective street slide panorama with navigational aides and mini-map.' Very slick (demo video). Technology Review explains that Street Slide stitches together slices from multiple panoramas, making it possible to see all the shops on a street at once. Someone using Street Slide's panoramic view can slide along the facades looking for places of interest (perhaps guided by logos or ads at the bottom), and zoom back in to a classic Bing Streetside bubble view at any time."

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  1. "Very slick" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wasn't that how BP described their efforts at cleaning up the gulf?

  2. I still see a problem by Linker3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But we still have to leave our basements to visit the shops do we? If only there was some way of telling the shops what we wanted and then they'd deliver them right to our door for mom to bring down.

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  3. They were worried about handling slopes... by aapold · · Score: 3, Funny

    but I see it made the grade....

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  4. Re:Zowie Scowie!! by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I worked on this project, and you're right, its 100% the same and is not at all an improvement. I wasn't aware of this "Google Street View" you speak of. Have a link by any chance? I KNEW we should have posted the idea to /. BEFORE doing any work. I told my superiors you guys would probably already know an existing implementation, would have seen this 10 years ago in some other platform in a tangentially arranged mode, would not be impressed by it, and could probably make it in five minutes with perl if you wanted to, which you don't. But did they listen? NO!