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Bing Maps

Some updates from Bing Maps

May 10, 2010

Over the weekend, Bing Maps launched a new application in partnership with National Geographic called Global Action Atlas. The new application allows people to peer into areas where our planet needs help. The actionable themes include Conservation, Humanitarian Affairs, Cultures, Exploration, Climate Change and Energy. For example, if you click on the Animal and Plants [...]

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Bing Maps adds Worldwide Telescope

March 17, 2010

кухниLast month, we showed you that amazing video of Blaise Aguera y Arcas showing off some new and upcoming features of Bing Maps.  One of those was the integration of Worldwide Telescope, which is now available. To try it out for yourself: Go to: www.bing.com/maps/explore Click on Map Apps (bottom of the left-hand rail, below [...]

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Massive update to Bing Maps

March 5, 2010

Microsoft has just released their largest update ever to Bing Maps, with more than 6.7M sq. kilometers of fresh imagery. They added a ton of new imagery in the Russian Federation, Australia, Mexico and many places in the United States.  They also added a lot of new Bird’s Eye imagery in Sweden.  Check out their [...]

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Amazing video of Bing Maps at TED

February 14, 2010

Blaise Aguera y Arcas recently shared some new Bing Maps features with the audience at TED, and he showed off some amazing stuff. The way that Flickr images (and even video) are incorporated into the StreetSide imagery using PhotoSynth technology was stunning, as was some other features. This eight-minute video is absolutely worth the time [...]

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More aerial views; National Geographic app; Google Maps for the indoors

January 23, 2010

A few cool things to point you toward today: More Cities get “Aerial View” in Google Maps — Portland, OR and Sacramento and Oakland, CA all have new “bird’s eye” imagery from Google. National Geographic launches iPhone app — It allows a variety of mapping sources, styles and other cool stuff. Micello Launches “Google Maps [...]

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Bing leaves beta, adds lots of data

January 19, 2010

Lots of big stuff happening with Bing Maps lately… Vancouver and Whistler added to StreetSide: Good timing for both of this, with the Winter Olympics getting ready to start. Two big imagery releases: 274K sq/km on January 5, and another 558K sq/km yesterday.  Even better, yesterday’s release was apparently just part 1 of 2, so [...]

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Bing releases iPhone app with nice Maps implementation

December 16, 2009

Microsoft just released the “Bing” application for iPhone and it is a solid effort.  It was voice search that is similar to the Google app, and Maps implementation that is similar to Google Maps on the phone. It’s a free app, so it’s certainly worth downloading and trying out.  Chris Pendleton has a nice writeup [...]

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Bing to take over MapQuest? It’s possible.

December 11, 2009

An article over on Screenwerk today seems to think that Microsoft may start powering the engine behind MapQuest, similar to how they power the search results for Yahoo. It would make a lot of sense.  Tons of people still use MapQuest, but the technology is getting rather stale.  Putting Bing’s power behind all of those [...]

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Microsoft teams with Navteq to expand their Streetside coverage

December 7, 2009

When Microsoft launched Streetside a few days ago (a direct competitor to Google’s StreetView), I wondered how they could possibly catch up with the huge amount of coverage that Google already has in place.  Their answer: Navteq. Navteq has vehicles on the road all the time, collecting road data (speed limits, bridge heights, etc).  Microsoft [...]

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Bing Maps launches a ton of new features

December 2, 2009

Microsoft has been playing catch-up to Google in the mapping world for a while.  Most of their “new” features are things that Google has had for a while.  Today they caught up with a few more, and even surpassed Google with a few of them. You can read the full list of new items on [...]

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