How much will it cost to grab a cab from my apartment to a favorite seafood restaurant? How about from my friend’s hotel to another friend’s apartment? Thanks to a new submission to the King of Bing Maps competition, users can calculate taxi fare between any two destinations within major metropolitan areas on Bing Maps. In our testing, the feature works quite well.

When you load the app in Bing Maps, you have to first choose a region and then get directions between two addresses. Since cabs (and fares) are usually regulated by the cities in which they operate, as they are here in Chicago, it’s not hard for Bing to get in the general ballpark of what you can expect to pay.