Bing Maps Updated with Largest Amount of New Imagery to Date
Bertrand Vasquez | Mar 05, 2010 | Comments 0

Last month, Microsoft updated Bing Maps with one million square kilometers of new imagery. Today, the Bing team announced that they have broken their own record by adding 6.7 million square kilometers of new aerial and oblique [bird's eye] imagery to the service. The record breaking addition contains imagery from many countries around the world including Australia, U.S., U.K., Mexico, Russian Federation, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, et cetera.
You can check out all the updates on the map by taking the Bing Maps World Tour. Additionally, you can check out the complete list of countries and the respective amount of images based on square kilometers after the break.
Aerial
Australia 524,645 sq. km.
Botswana 61,433 sq. km.
Estonia 618 sq. km.
Hungary 3,369 sq. km.
Mexico 236,624 sq. km.
Morocco 13,303 sq. km.
Namibia 72,162 sq. km.
New Zealand 14,987 sq. km.
Poland 6,254 sq. km.
Romania 3,695 sq. km.
Russian Federation 553,244 sq. km.
South Africa 123,138 sq. km.
Turkey 16,148 sq. km.
United Kingdom 15,221 sq. km.
United States 4,961,758 sq. km.
Oblique [Bird’s Eye]
Austria 238 sq. km.
Belgium 898 sq. km.
Denmark 718 sq. km.
Finland 1,634 sq. km.
France 2,001 sq. km.
Greece 931 sq. km.
Ireland 1,340 sq. km.
Netherlands 1,709 sq. km.
Norway 2,425 sq. km.
Portugal 2,184 sq. km.
Romania 1,534 sq. km.
Spain 5,143 sq. km.
Sweden 6,747 sq. km.
Switzerland 424 sq. km.
United Kingdom 13,094 sq. km.
United States 56,007 sq. km.
[ via Search Engine Land ]
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