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The map parts of Microsoft’s Bing world have been significantly updated, with MS adding some 215TB of new satellite imagery to its “Bird’s Eye” aerial views of the world. For a different viewpoint to the one offered by the omnipresent Google.
The latest Bing images cover 230,004 square kilometers of the planet, centred mainly on the developed bits people who have the internet live in, which takes Bing’s total photographic coverage up to around 1.4million square kilometers.
You can guesstimate the date some photos were taken by looking at the state of familiar parts of the landscape, with the Stratford Olympic development up there but looking a little tatty around the edges, which the south London Shard is nowhere to be seen. [Bing]
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No difference at my house, and cengral Glasgow is still missing an entire motorway.
The area near my house shows that land where everything was demolished over 4 years ago still full of derelict houses.
I guess their satellite imagery isn’t THAT new.
At least I know their photos were taken on a Wednesday as I see my neighbour putting out the trash bins ready for the rubbish collectors.
The shard is somewhere to be seen… zoom in a little..
OK what has happened? This is the second article today praising Microsoft, I thought it is still cool to make fun of MicroSoft (hehe)?
If Microsoft are the new golden child, then who’s turn is it to be made fun off (fingers crossed for Apple)
no cause Bing is shit
Image quality is pretty bad compared to google maps.
1. level of zoom is way less than Google Maps
2. Pictures are a lot whiter than they should be.
3. Can’t determine how old the images are due to poor zoom level but certainly 18months minimum.
Fail
If you look at the aerial not the bird’s eye images then the pictures are a lot more recent – eg, the Olympic park: http://binged.it/PlUz9K
Well central London is at least two years out of date, not even the beginnings of a construction site for the cable car. Given the state of the DLR it may be even older. Also the odd changing viewing angles are quite disconcerting.
I work next to the cable car. It was a really quick build. In January there was no evidence of it. That’s only 8 months.