Don't Like Microsoft Virtual Earth Imagery? Then, "Patch" It.

There are certain areas of the world where Virtual Earth’s imagery is, well, low resolution. Let’s face it, the world is a huge place and Virtual Earth just having had it’s 3rd birthday is only in the initial phases of rolling out imagery and photography to cover the world. For those of you who just can’t wait, have a specific area you want covered or need more recently updated imagery/photography than what’s native to Virtual Earth there’s a feature in our Maps SDKs that allows you to overlay your own imagery

Custom Overlays

the custom overlay feature allow you to create and insert your own custom layers into the map. These layers can consist of static overlays such as custom navigation bars, or dynamic overlays such as custom data visualization layers. Custom overlays can be added to the map just like any other layer using the map.layers property.

Examples

Try it for yourself!

You can find working samples and source code for those samples available at https://samples.bingmapsportal.com/?search=overlay