We just shipped another 9,460 square kilometers of imagery onto Bing Maps. This month’s release showcases high precision imagery for the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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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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We just pushed 55TB of additional updated map data and new imagery into Virtual Earth (and Live Search Maps, of course). Another massive release…they just keep coming, don’t they?
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The engine has been churning for a few months and we’ve finally pumped out another imagery release – a massive 37TB of data
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Just a quick note to mention that we updated the road data for North America, Europe and Asia in Microsoft Virtual Earth.
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In the footsteps of the Live Search Maps Finland site launch, Live Search Maps Netherlands is now live on the web. Explore The Netherlands like never before...
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The Microsoft Research team responsible for WorldWide Telescope has just pushed out another update (v 2.2.41.1). Code named "Solstice Borealis" the new release includes a couple sweet and mind boggling features.
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We’ve been doing some housecleaning the last 2 months with some of our road network data. As a result, a small blog post to let you know of a HUGE refresh / release (48TB worth) of all tile sets where vector information is included – Road, Hybrid Aerial, and Hybrid Bird’s Eye. Thus, we’re cleaning up the streets (as it were): Global vector data updates. Multi-lingual tile sets for all zoom levels (French, Italian...
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Another massive release of aerial photography for Virtual Earth – 41.07 TB worth.
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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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