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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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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 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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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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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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