Comments on: Huge Bing Maps Worldwide Update

By: Online Mapping News : GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems

Online Mapping News : GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:58:41 +0000

[...] Microsoft’s Bing had a huge update: “We just deployed 41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data for Bing Maps covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Birdâ€™s Eye photography.” (seen via James Fee) [...]

By: Acneboy

Acneboy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:23:29 +0000

Bing search engine gives almost the same search results as Google. Looks like Google will now have a tough competition when it comes to search engine technology.

By: George

George — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:47:51 +0000

i have been evaluating the search results of Microsoft Bing compared to Google and they are comparable. Bing gives almost the same relevant search results just like Google.

By: melatoninlady

melatoninlady — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:50:14 +0000

Microsoft Bing would be the closet competitor of Google. but i still use Google because it shows more relevant results on the serp.

By: yodel

yodel — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:15:51 +0000

My unemployment checks courtesy of M$ are thanks enough!

By: Archie Belaney

Archie Belaney — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:07:31 +0000

It’s about time taxpayers started being able to see and use the (local) maps we’ve been paying for lo all these years. Just try and get a copy of your Anytown, America GIS data and use it for yourself.

GoogleBingMap are serving back what the rest of the world has been missing for decades.

Thanks, y’all.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:42:11 +0000

... or what we Brits call the "Ordnance Survey Effect"...

By: James Fee

James Fee — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:52:44 +0000

Well it is usually the tax payer who is either paying it for or at least subsidizing it.

Their reward, having to pay for it a second time or have to use it inside someones API.

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:20:46 +0000

Do folks not realize the cost of acquiring, providing, and serving this data? Two years? You’re lucky its not five year old. I’ve been talking about this in my line of business for a couple of years now: the “google earth” effect… everyone expects this birds eye view stuff to be real-time for every point on earth. They think it actually comes from satellites. Its just not realistic, folks. Who do you think is paying for this stuff?

By: MorkandMindy

MorkandMindy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:00:50 +0000

file this under who cares…maybe this is a big accomplishment for MS. other places just call this another day at the office.