Incredibly cool tech demo of where we are headed with Bing Maps and photo matching

Watch the video to get an idea, if you don’t want to take the time to read the whole post.   I’m helping to get the Bing Maps Streetside imagery together that makes this all possible.   This is such a cool job, and I get to live in Colorado! 

http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2010/02/11/spatial-search-the-next-frontier.aspx

It looks like lots of people think this is pretty cool.  Here’s a quick view of what others are saying on twitter right now.

http://www.bing.com/twitter/search?q=TED+Bing&form=DTPTWI

Greg over at SearchEngineLand has a description of how we’ll start to show interiors and the impressive video matching done in the live demo today that isn’t in the video above yet.  http://searchengineland.com/bing-demos-streetside-with-flickr-photos-live-video-bing-sky-35994