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 released an improvement to its Bing Maps service with 13 million square kilometers of higher-resolution satellite imagery and the addition of better ocean typography. In a post on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 been working to create a database of aerial photos that can be accessed by its Bing Maps service for a while now. Today, the company announced that their Global Ortho Project has now ...

Microsoft newly enhanced maps are online at bing.com/maps. The Boulder-based Microsoft team that handles images for Bing Maps wrapped up a two-year project this week ...

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 ...

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 ...

The folks behind Bing Maps have been undeniably busy this past month: they've released 121 terabytes worth of satellite and Global Ortho imagery to its Windows 8 Maps app and Bing Maps, released a ...