Bing Maps Imagery Release, April 2010

Bing Maps Imagery Release, April 2010

Another huge Bing Maps imagery release and this month features our Enhanced Bird’s Eye going worldwide. We now have Enhanced Bird’s eye worldwide with more urban models and the ability to view locations from a re-projected perspective, from all 4 cardinal directions, across the globe.
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Virtual Earth Imagery Release, March 2009

Virtual Earth Imagery Release, March 2009

Another huge addition to the digitization of our planet just hit the web last night 21TB – all ortho imagery launched into Microsoft Virtual Earth, powering Live Search Maps (and other Live Search properties). This image highlights Savute Reserve, Botswana
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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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The Making of the Virtual Earth 3D Santa Tracker

The Making of the Virtual Earth 3D Santa Tracker

As Santa heads north for his annual slumber and we’re all left with buyer’s remorse and daunting credit card bills we can now reflect on something positive: how Christmas was changed this year for the better with a 3D version of tracking Santa using Microsoft Virtual Earth. 
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Virtual Earth & DigitalGlobe - Worldwide Imagery Improvement

Virtual Earth & DigitalGlobe - Worldwide Imagery Improvement

Well, well, well what have we here? We now have access to one of the highest resolution global satellite imagery and aerial photography collections (460 million sq. km. + 1 million sq. km. per day moving forward) through a deal we’ve just struck with DigitalGlobe. We’ll finally be able to backfill areas around the world where people have come to my blog and complained about Virtual Earth not having good imagery or photos in their...
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