July112019 We’ve Released New Bird's Eye Imagery! Bing Maps was one of the first mapping services on the web to offer oblique 45-degree angle aerial imagery, also known as Bird’s Eye. Bing Maps is still as committed as ever to offering fresh high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery. Over the last 12 months we’ve been busy releasing refreshed and expanded Bird’s Eye imagery and we want to make sure our customers and users are aware of the progress we’ve been making. In... Read More
September182012 Global Ortho & 17 Million SqKm of New Satellite Imagery In a recent post, we announced the completion of the Global Ortho (GO) program in the United States. GO for Western Europe is on schedule to be completed by the end of CY 2012. Also new this month, Bing Maps adds nearly 17 Million SqKm of new satellite imagery! Read More
September262011 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. Read More
February12011 Imagery Update: Cowboys Stadium Gets Fresh Bird’s-eye & Aerial Imagery We’re just a few days away from Super Bowl XLV and with everyone preparing for Super Sunday, we figured at Bing Maps we’d do the same. Today, we updated the Bird’s-eye and Aerial images in the Arlington area to show off Cowboys Stadium. Read More
March122010 Embed Bing Maps Twitter Maps On Your Site NOW, you can embed our Twitter Maps functionality into your own web site. This means you can be cool by having a Bing Map on your web site, blog, favorite social networking site with the Tweets you care about. Read More
October302008 WorldWide Telescope - New Release! The Microsoft Research Team has released an updated version of WorldWide Telescope for free on the web. Read More
October182008 Live Search Maps Argentina is Live! Argentina is now live on Virtual Earth! Thiscomes with geocoding places and addresses, road maps, satellite imagery and photography and traffic incident and flow information. Read More
July292008 ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop Now Features Microsoft Virtual Earth Today, we’re announcing a closer and much deeper relationship with ESRI by integrating Bing Maps Virtual Earth tiles into their ArcGIS Desktop product. Read More