This is a pretty exciting release because we’ve added….wait for it…over 1 million square kilometers of new imagery! Can you even fathom how much data this is? Now, have you seen the great TED2010 talk on Bing Maps: Augmented-reality maps? 

Here are the details of our latest imagery update:

Bird’s Eye

• Italy – 5,547 sq. km.
• Netherlands – 554 sq. km.
• Romania – 1,414 sq. km.
• Spain – 512 sq. km.
• Sweden – 1,174 sq. km.
• United States – 120,181 sq. km. (!!!)

Aerial (Ortho)

• Australia – 54,488 sq. km.
• Botswana – 46,179 sq. km.
• Canada – 391 sq. km.
• Lesotho – 6,201 sq. km.
• Mexico – 584,527 sq. km.
• Morocco – 109,448 sq. km.
• Namibia – 47,199 sq. km.
• New Zealand – 57,540 sq. km.
• Portugal – The Whole Country!
• South Africa – 221,336  sq. km.

Enhanced Bird’s Eye

• Haiti
• Mexico
• Vancouver

The Bing Maps Imagery Processing team is really in a groove and our partnerships with Digital Globe, Pictometry and Blom are really paying dividends.