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New Google Earth imagery/3D, Bing StreetView coming soon

November 20, 2009

A couple of quick links today: Imagery update in Google Earth: Just two weeks since their last one, Google has pushed out another imagery update.  It’s not a huge one, but it covers small parts of many countries. New 3D imagery in Google Earth: Google has started using StreetView imagery in some cities to create [...]

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New imagery release for Bing Maps

November 11, 2009

Microsoft has just dropped a nice imagery update on Bing Maps, covering around 180,000 sq. km.  This update is focused heavily in Europe, in the following countries: Bulgaria (1,225 sq. km) Czech Republic (10,808 sq. km) Estonia (1,418 sq. km) Hungary (23,840 sq. km) Latvia (12,763 sq. km) Lithuania (9,681 sq. km) Poland (24,912 sq. [...]

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New StreetView imagery released and some new features for Bing Maps

November 10, 2009

Google has just released a ton of new StreetView imagery; Mexico, the Netherlands, Hawaii and various other places.  [details: Google Earth Blog] Bing Maps has added a few nice features. They now have draggable routes and some new navigation features.  Nothing groundbreaking, but certainly solid updates.  [details: Bing search blog] Tweet

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Big imagery releases for Google Earth and Bing Maps

November 5, 2009

We’ve seen a couple of big imagery releases in the past few days: Google Earth has updated various imagery all over the world.  You can read details on the Google Earth Blog, or view this page to see the updated areas via the Google Earth Plug-in.  Here are some neat things that users have already [...]

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Bing Maps Imagery Release for August, 2009

August 31, 2009

Another month, another big imagery release for Bing Maps.  It’s not as large as the last one (101,485 square kilometers, vs. about 189,000 sq. km. in July), but it’s still very substantial. This one covers 23 countries, but only Japan got more than just a smattering of new imagery.  There wasn’t even any in the [...]

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A ghost town from space

August 24, 2009

Earth is Square has a neat post today about viewing Centralia, Pennsylanvia using fresh Bird’s Eye imagery on Bing Maps.  Centralia was an active town of about 1000 residents back in the early 1980′s, but now is home to only nine people.  The reason is due to an underground coal fire that’s been burning since [...]

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Bing Maps Imagery Update for July

August 4, 2009

Hot on the heels of Google’s latest imagery update, we have a huge imagery update from Bing Maps (via James Fee). This update includes 41TB of raw imagery, covering 189,000 sq. km., and about 12,000 sq. km. of Bird’s Eye imagery. One of the neat things that Microsoft does with each release is post a [...]

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May imagery update for Bing Maps

June 5, 2009

The first big update under the name “Bing Maps” (formerly “Live Maps” / “Virtual Earth”) and it’s a big one.  They’ve added a ton of new imagery, but they’re showing it in a new way.  Rather than posting a giant list of updated cities/countries, they’ve released a Bing Maps World Tour that walks you through [...]

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Virtual Earth / Live Maps being rebranded to Bing

May 28, 2009

As you’ve likely heard, Microsoft has unveiled it’s new Bing search engine.  As part of that rebranding process, other Microsoft applications are getting renamed.  Of particular interest to us are the new names for their mapping products. Live Search Maps will now be simply called “Bing Maps”, and the Virtual Earth platform will now be [...]

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