Doubling down, Bing Maps adds a stockpile of new satellite and photo images that cover 38 million square kilometers of the world. Dara Kerr Former senior reporter Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for ...

Massive points to Microsoft on this one. Over the past three years, Microsoft has created a uniform, detailed map of the Continental United States and 17 countries in Western and Central Europe. The ...

Microsoft has once again updated Bing Maps to include even more satellite and Global Ortho imagery. The company announced on their official blog that 121 terabytes of new data have been loaded into ...

Microsoft has announced that its Bing Maps division has completed its Global Ortho Project for the United States, offering aerial images of the US that have the resolution of 30cm. Microsoft has been ...

Microsoft has announced a major upgrade to the satellite and aerial imagery it has in its Bing Maps. Previously, Microsoft had 129 TB total of satellite and aerial imagery. The new update adds an ...

Bing Maps, Microsoft’s answer to Google’s omnipresent mapping platform, has today received a whopping 165 terabytes (TB) of new satellite imagery – its single biggest release to date. In fact, the ...

Hot on the heels of last week’s Read/Write World effort, Bing Maps has announced another ambitious project that will improve its imagery collection. It’s called the Global Ortho Project and the goal ...

The baby of the Lint team, Jake is responsible for covering the latest news out of the US. He began writing technology news at 15, covering the world of Apple for several publications. He has a deep ...

The Bing Maps team has updated the Bing Maps World Tour application highlighting 153 locations of high-resolution aerial imagery captured and published as part of our Bing Maps Global Ortho imagery ...

Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its Bing Maps service, adding 13 million square kilometers or 315.92 terabytes of new aerial imagery from around the world. Locations that benefit from the ...

As the “mapping wars” heat up Microsoft is introducing a huge new body of satellite imagery into Bing Maps. It’s not clear whether any of this will extend to mobile given the apparent substitution of ...

With Google and Apple making back-to-back announcements about their new mapping efforts in the last few weeks, Microsoft obviously felt a bit left out. Today, however, the company is launching its ...