Have you ever used Google Maps or Bing Maps street view to locate a store front, points of interest or a specific street address? It can become a fairly time consuming, often frustrating task as you jump from bubble to bubble, turn your camera and attempt to zoom in on fuzzy details. Microsoft Research recently released their solution to this problem, dubbed “Street Slide.” Street Slide functions by turning streets into a 2 Dimensional side-scroller, showing street name and address and store logos. It allows you to quickly scrub up and down streets, rotate your view 180 degrees to the other side of the street, and even jump onto connecting streets, providing a much faster way of finding those points of interest.
It’s funny how navigating a 2 Dimensional world is the fastest way to locate points of interest in our 3 dimensional world. Go figure!
Here is a link to the white paper
