The Bing Team posted a nice blog post titled “Entities, Apps, and Maps.”_ In the last paragraph the team talks about what they see in the future of Bing Maps: Moving into the future, entity knowledge will greatly enhance our mapping experiences. While our Bing Maps Preview app already takes advantage of Satori to deliver smart features like Local Scout, we have a vision for maps where everything is annotated with useful information: what buildings are called, what stores are in them, how to get in touch with those stores and when they are open. Much of this exists today in our current experiences, but further integrating entity knowledge into maps will transform digital maps from the visual representation they are today to a deep model of what the world is like. Another element of how maps and entities will converge is putting map-construction technology in the hands of our users. The newly released Photosynth technology_maps entities in a different, breathtaking way, and does just that, letting everyone in the...

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