Bing Maps Updated with Largest Amount of New Imagery to Date

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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