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Bing Maps Gets Biggest Imagery Update to Date

Microsoft is rolling out the largest imagery update to Bing Maps to date, adding 6.7 million square kilometers of new imagery, a representative for Bing tells WebProNews. The update...
Bing Maps Gets Biggest Imagery Update to Date
Written by Chris Crum
  • Microsoft is rolling out the largest imagery update to Bing Maps to date, adding 6.7 million square kilometers of new imagery, a representative for Bing tells WebProNews.

    The update includes new aerial imagery for the Russian Federation, Australia, Mexico and most places in the US where there is existing black and white imagery. "There is also a notable addition of Bird’s Eye Imagery for Sweden," the rep says.

    Bing Maps gets largest imagery update ever

    Here’s a list as mentioned on the Bing Maps Blog:

    Aerial

    Australia    524,645 sq. km.
    Botswana    61,433 sq. km.
    Estonia    618 sq. km.
    Hungary    3,369 sq. km.
    Mexico    236,624 sq. km.
    Morocco    13,303 sq. km.
    Namibia    72,162 sq. km.
    New Zealand    14,987 sq. km.
    Poland    6,254 sq. km.
    Romania    3,695 sq. km.
    Russian Federation    553,244 sq. km.
    South Africa    123,138 sq. km.
    Turkey    16,148 sq. km.
    United Kingdom    15,221 sq. km.
    United States    4,961,758 sq. km.

    Oblique (Bird’s Eye)

    Austria    238 sq. km.
    Belgium    898 sq. km.
    Denmark    718 sq. km.
    Finland    1,634 sq. km.
    France    2,001 sq. km.
    Greece    931 sq. km.
    Ireland    1,340 sq. km.
    Netherlands    1,709 sq. km.
    Norway    2,425 sq. km.
    Portugal    2,184 sq. km.
    Romania    1,534 sq. km.
    Spain    5,143 sq. km.
    Sweden    6,747 sq. km.
    Switzerland    424 sq. km.
    United Kingdom    13,094 sq. km.
    United States    56,007 sq. km.

    Last month Bing had pushed out its biggest imagery update to that point, but as Chris Pendleton says on the blog, this one blows that record out of the water.

    Visuals can be seen via the

    Bing Maps World Tour.

     

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