Bing Maps Imagery Update 1 Million Sq Km of New Content

Bing Maps’ evolution is without a doubt a multifaceted growth, with Microsoft making sure that the mapping, search and location platform moves forward in a variety of aspects. The past week, Bing Maps evolved with both new features and capabilities as well as with the addition of new content. At the end of the past week, Microsoft announced the introduction of the latest imagery refresh to the platform. This is the second 1+ million square kilometers of content that is delivered to Bing Maps after the January 2010 update.

“This is a pretty exciting release, especially if you’re Romanian. In this release, we’ve added….wait for it…over 1 million square kilometers of new imagery! Can you even fathom how much data this is? Now, all of you who’ve sent me emails pointing out shortfalls in the Bing Maps imagery can rest assure that we are updating it and publishing some amazing and quite recent new imagery. And, for the first time ever, we’ve added Bird’s Eye for Romania and expanded our Enhanced Birds Eye outside the United States,” revealed Chris Pendleton, the Bing Maps technical evangelist for Microsoft.

And it’s easily to see why Pendleton expects Romanians to be enthusiastic about this release, the country got the second most imagery coverage after the United States. Microsoft Introduced new Bird’s Eye imagery for United States – 120,181 sq. km, Italy – 5,547 sq. km, Netherlands – 554 sq. km, Romania – 1,414 sq. km, Spain – 512 sq. km, and Sweden – 1,174 sq. km. In addition, the company also delivered new Aerial (Ortho) and Enhanced Bird’s Eye content.

“The Bing Maps Imagery Processing team is really in a groove and our partnerships with Digital Globe, Pictometry and Blom are really paying dividends. As always, check out all the new imagery highlighted on the Bing Maps World Tour,” Pendleton added.