The company keeps improving its mapping service with fresh imagery

Sep 9, 2013 08:50 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has just announced that Bing Maps received a new large update, this time improving the aerial imagery available to users.

No less than 13 million square kilometers (5 million square miles), or 315.92 terabytes, have been added to Bing Maps, with the new imagery freely offered to users via the official page of the service.

“Now on Bing Maps, you can find more than five million square miles of additional hi-res aerial imagery taken from aircraft and satellites. For the rest of the world that uses the metric system, that’s 13 million square kilometers, or 315.92 terabytes, of awesomeness from around the globe,” Microsoft said.

Among the locations included in this update, it’s worth mentioning Maritimes Alps (France), Ísafjarðarbær (Iceland), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Hugh Town, Scilly Isles (England).