Microsoft announced the launch of traffic cameras in Bing Maps. Yep, you read that correctly. “Seeing is believing,” the company says in a blog post. “Here at Bing Maps we know the value of traffic information, however, there is something…
Bing Maps Preview Is Now Available On Windows 8.1
Bing Maps continues its journey of constant self improvement today with the release of the latest version preview for Windows 8.1. As this is a preview of the next big release, you can expect to see a ton of new…
Bing Maps Gets Tons Of New Bird’s Eye Imagery
Bing announced today that it has made some updates to Bing Maps, including the addition of its biggest batch of bird’s eye imagery to date. They’ve added about 270 terabytes of data, which they note is the equivalent of 100,000…
Bing And Windows 8 Maps Get Tons Of New Imagery
Microsoft announced today that it has added over 121 TB of satellite and Global Ortho imagery to Bing Maps and the Windows 8 Maps app. The maps offerings now include over 15 million square kilometers of new data mostly covering…
Bing Maps SDK Now Available For Windows Store Apps
Let’s say your building a Windows Store app. You want to be on Windows 8 as soon as it launches later this month. Your app features a lot of map interactivity, or it just pulls info from one of the…
If You Miss Google Maps On iOS, Bing Thinks You Should Use Bing Maps
Google Maps and its disappearance from iOS have been in the news a lot over the past week or so, and lots of other companies are stepping up pointing to their own maps offerings. Microsoft is the latest, and is…
Bing Maps Can Pinpoint Your House In High Resolution, But Still Can’t Show You Area 51
Bing Maps are by far the best thing to come out of Microsoft’s insistence to take on Google in search. The maps and aerial imagery is on par with a lot of the work that Google does in the field.…
Bing Now Has Pretty High-Res Aerial Imagery For The Entire U.S.
Today, Bing announced the completion of the U.S. portion of what it says is its largest aerial imagery endeavor, and its most ambitious mapping effort to date – the Global Ortho Project. “In two years, the Bing Maps Imagery team…
Bing Maps Spent a Lot of Miles Mall Walking for These New Venue Maps
Malls are terrifying places. Malls are either so crowded that you can barely wade through the legions of shoppers feverish with the bloodlust of commerce or they are so devoid of both stores and shoppers that they represent a chilling…
Bing Maps Massive Update Confirms That Dubai’s Still Building Crazy Islands
If you’re living in the Northern Hemisphere, you have likely noticed that summer is in full effect. ‘Tis the season for ice cream trucks, watermelons, Slip ‘n Slides, roller coasters, baseball, sweat-stenched outdoor music festivals, and, of course, trips to…