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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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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Switzerland takes Google to court over StreetView

November 15, 2009

We told you a few months ago that Switzerland wasn’t pleased with the new StreetView imagery in their country.  Now they’re going to sue Google in an attempt to get the imagery removed.  Google intends to fight the case. The first step will be interesting — Google may be required to remove the imagery from [...]

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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]

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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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Google Maps Navigation coming to Android 2.0

October 28, 2009

I’ve been saying for a while that I think Android will overtake iPhone in 2010, and recent news seems to be pointing that direction.  First you have the impressive-looking Verizon Droid, which comes out in early November.  By all accounts it will be an awesome device.  It will be the first phone running the Android [...]

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A ton more 3D buildings in Google Earth

October 24, 2009

As reported by the Google Earth Blog, a ton of new 3D buildings have been released into Google Earth.  They include, among other things, thousands of building generated by people using their new “Building Maker” tool. If you find any other major cities that have been updated as well, please let us know.

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A whole bunch of minor updates to Google Maps

October 23, 2009

Google has just rolled out a slew of minor updates to Google Maps — changing road colors, outline colors, number of roads shown at each zoom level, etc. TechCrunch summarized it best: …unless you spend hours looking at Google Maps everyday, you probably aren’t going to realize when a road outline has been toned down, [...]

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