Maps Blog - Posts tagged with '3D imagery'

HO HO HO Two Point OH!

HO HO HO Two Point OH!

The holiday season has come and NORAD is set to track Santa’s travels around the globe with a little help from Microsoft and other great partners. Find out the latest at NORADSanta.ORG!
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Head for the Golf Course with Bing Maps

Head for the Golf Course with Bing Maps

Sunday is Father’s Day, a celebration observed the world over (although in some countries on a different schedule) and an opportunity to pause and reflect on the influence of fathers and paternal figures on society. It’s also a time for dad to indulge in his favorite pursuits, and for many of them that means golf. It’s estimated there are almost 30 million golfers in the United States alone, about three quarters of them men, and 50-60 million...
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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Bing Maps

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Bing Maps

Bing Maps is a great tool for exploring and learning about many things, including the numerous celebrations held each year in cities across the country. Today is St. Patrick’s Day, named in honor of the patron saint of Ireland. It is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and is widely celebrated in the United States and other nations with a large Irish immigrant heritage. Celebrations in the US often involve a festive...
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It’s game time on Bing Maps

It’s game time on Bing Maps

Are you one of the lucky few to be heading to Phoenix for the Big Game? If so, we have some new Bing Maps that will help you navigate your way to, in and around University of Phoenix Stadium. Even if you’ll be watching the game from the comfort of your living room or your favorite sports bar, these new map features give a preview of the venue before the game. Read More
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Our New Year's Resolution? More Great Streetside and Aerial Imagery

Our New Year's Resolution? More Great Streetside and Aerial Imagery

With year’s end fast approaching it’s appropriate to take stock on your accomplishments over the past 12 month as well as your ambitions for the upcoming year. Here at Bing Maps we are proud to have delivered an ongoing series of major updates of aerial and Streetside imagery and are starting to plan for what’s next for us in 2015. This post highlights some of the cities in our latest monthly content release. A complete list of locations with new...
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Not Travelling this Thanksgiving? Try a Virtual Family Visit Instead.

Not Travelling this Thanksgiving? Try a Virtual Family Visit Instead.

With Thanksgiving just a few days away (and the winter holiday season right around the corner) thoughts turn to family traditions of years past. If you can’t make it home for the holidays Bing Maps imagery is a great way to spark memories of turkey dinner, snowball fights and watching football while you work off your “postprandial somnolence”  and this month we’ve released another batch of aerial 2D, aerial 3D and Streetside imagery...
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15 New 3D Cities Available in the Bing Maps Preview App

15 New 3D Cities Available in the Bing Maps Preview App

Introducing a new way to explore the world in a touch-friendly way. We’ve been flying, driving and processing since then and have just added 15 more 3D cities to the list we launched with. With the help of world builders from the video game industry, expert photogrammetrists, high definition aerial cameras and a massive data pipeline crunching petabytes of imagery, we are delivering a more natural way to experience our planet.
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Did You Catch the Amazing Race Last Night?

Did You Catch the Amazing Race Last Night?

That’s right! Last night on the season premiere of the Amazing Race, Bing Maps was there! Using the visual experience engine from Microsoft which powered the WordWide Telescope (WWT) and Bing Maps, viewers could visualize the contestants’ route.
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Virtual Earth 3D Installs with Windows

Virtual Earth 3D Installs with Windows

Windows Maps App supercedes the previous stad alone installs of Virtual Earcth and Microsoft Maps for Windows. You can find it by searching for Maps in either the Windows Search box or the Windows App Store.
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