Another cool thing I like about Bing Maps: "Whole Foods on the corner" and "If you reach E 13th St, you've gone too far" when viewing directions. Such things would be cheered on as "look how awesome Google is!" if implemented in GMaps.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3robnkg (tinyurl because URL is huge)

Also, the bird's eye view in bing maps always makes me go back to it, it's great to see what a neighborhood look like and how it would feel to actually follow a route. Google street view is just too zoomed in and too painful to navigate in to get a broad idea most of the time.

This makes sense as Microsoft actually used to use the LineDrive technology.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc514631.aspx

Link: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#/c7pvw1whdkp6ggvw