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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 known [...]

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Huge imagery release for Virtual Earth

November 6, 2008

Microsoft has rolled out another enormous imagery release for Virtual Earth.  Details can be found here, but the quick version includes:
Orthos
 

Spain
Japan

Obliques (Bird’s Eye)

United States
Japan
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
Germany
Austria
Luxembourg

Sadly, once again, there doesn’t appear to be any new 3D buildings.  C’mon Microsoft — those “version 2″ cities are amazing and we want more of them!

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Virtual Earth update time

September 18, 2008

Just a few days ago I mentioned that I hadn’t seen an imagery update for Virtual Earth in a while, and now we have one.
This one reportedly has a staggering 48TB worth of imagery, but doesn’t cover that many places.  The list:
Orthos

Yakima, WA
Springfield, MO
Spokane, WA
Portland, ME
Grand Rapids, MI
Billings, MT
Minneapolis, MN (UltraCam Refresh)
Seattle, WA (UltraCam Refresh)
Las [...]

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The July update for Virtual Earth is out

July 22, 2008

It’s not nearly as large as some recent Virtual Earth updates, but there’s still quite a bit packed into this one.  No new 3D cities that I know of, but a bunch of new imagery.  New orthos in a handful of places in the US, all of Austria, and various cities in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, [...]

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Various improvements to Live Maps overseas

July 3, 2008

A handful of new features have just been rolled out for the international versions of Live Maps.
Live Search Maps China has just had a handful of additions and improvements, including:

Real-time Traffic in Beijing
Send-to-Mobile for free for local search and transit routing result
Transit data refresh for existing 11 cities including 3 new subway in Beijing (No.10, [...]

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Virtual Earth Imagery Update

April 30, 2008

Microsoft has apparently just added 22TB worth of new imagery to Virtual Earth. The only nice tidbit we know so far is that Australia finally has some Birds Eye imagery.
Assuming this is accurate, I expect a detailed announcement from Microsoft shortly.

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Trees and Highway Overpasses

April 12, 2008

I’ve long felt that two things would need to happen to get to the next level in 3D imagery — trees and highway overpasses.
Since one of the neat features in Google Earth is the ability to fly a route, having proper overpasses would make things look much better.  The latest version of Virtual Earth has [...]

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Yahoo updates imagery for most of the United States

April 12, 2008

Not to be outdone by Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has updated their imagery for most of the United States.  While it’s still simply 2D maps, they’ve updated a ton of imagery.
Since it’s inception, Yahoo has added over 500 cities across the world, but today has seen the biggest change ever in their US data.
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Tons of new features in Virtual Earth

April 11, 2008

To go with the new ClearFlow traffic, Microsoft has just released a slew of new features for Virtual Earth.  They include:

Export collections to GPS using KML, GPX and GeoRSS.
Improved 3D cities.  Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver and Phoenix are now in “version 2″, which includes higher-res textures, more buildings and even rendered tress.  Other cities will [...]

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Microsoft launches “ClearFlow” traffic on Live Maps

April 11, 2008

Microsoft has just released “ClearFlow” traffic data on Live Maps, but it’s far more interesting than you might think.  While it shows the colored traffic speeds in a similar manner as Yahoo, Google and Mapquest, it also goes much deeper.
From Search Engine Land:
In addition to real-time traffic data, the service offers traffic predictions across highways [...]

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