Bing Maps, Microsoft’s answer to Google’s omnipresent mapping platform, has today received a whopping 165 terabytes (TB) of new satellite imagery – its single biggest release to date. In fact, the ...

Microsoft has once again updated Bing Maps to include even more satellite and Global Ortho imagery. The company announced on their official blog that 121 terabytes of new data have been loaded into ...

Microsoft announced today that they've added a whopping 121 terabytes of new satellite and Global Ortho imagery to Bing Maps (and, in turn, the Windows 8 Maps app), adding to an already robust amount ...

The folks behind Bing Maps have been undeniably busy this past month: they've released 121 terabytes worth of satellite and Global Ortho imagery to its Windows 8 Maps app and Bing Maps, released a ...

Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft’s mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute of ...

Microsoft has been enhancing its Bing Maps offering with new “Top of the World and High Resolution Satellite Imagery” which includes bathymetric shading showing the topography of the ocean floor. In ...

As the “mapping wars” heat up Microsoft is introducing a huge new body of satellite imagery into Bing Maps. It’s not clear whether any of this will extend to mobile given the apparent substitution of ...

Thought that Google had cornered the market on free, overhead-view photo mapping solutions? You clearly don't reside in Redmond, because Bing Maps' aerial image library just got another 165TB worth of ...

Microsoft has announced a major upgrade to the satellite and aerial imagery it has in its Bing Maps. Previously, Microsoft had 129 TB total of satellite and aerial imagery. The new update adds an ...

Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its Bing Maps service, adding 13 million square kilometers or 315.92 terabytes of new aerial imagery from around the world. Locations that benefit from the ...

Microsoft has been working to create a database of aerial photos that can be accessed by its Bing Maps service for a while now. Today, the company announced that their Global Ortho Project has now ...

Microsoft has released an improvement to its Bing Maps service with 13 million square kilometers of higher-resolution satellite imagery and the addition of better ocean typography. In a post on the ...