Microsoft’s Bing team has added two new cool application in Maps called Local Events and Destination. Bing’s Local Event app will help you to find all events and locations near to your location. With Bing’s event app you can sort the events and places by popularity or date. This app also offers further categories like music, sports, performing arts, food and dining, and fairs and festivals. One can also filter by time frame – today, tomorrow, coming weekend, this week, next week or between specific date range. You can also use pin feature to pin the event to the map. Then, you can view just “your pins” at any given time. Also, get directions, share the event information or save the event to Your Places easily with built in features to do so.
The Destination Maps app will help you to create custom maps. set the area of interest by dragging the sides of the on-map square to include all the areas people are coming from; then give the map a title. You can select multiple map styles such as Sketchy, European, American or Treasure (a la pirate! – featured). Very reminiscent of the Line Drive maps from my Vicinity days…only way fricking cooler.
