High-resolution Bing cards will show Europe and the United States by the end of the year.

Now both Google and Apple are trying to outdo each other in improving their own map services, adding new features and improving the overall quality of their products. True, Apple does not succeed in everything, but there is already some success. As for Microsoft, the Bing cards now include about 165 terabytes of new data covering an area of ​​approximately 1 million square miles.

Moreover, the corporation announced that in June the task of obtaining aerial photographs for the entire United States was completed. And by the autumn a similar task will be completed for Europe. Thus, Bing Maps will receive a new breath, so to speak.
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All new images will be published by the end of 2012. To work with all the data, both old and new, the corporation will need approximately 55 petabytes of file space. It is worth noting that Bing has been offering 3D maps for a long time, on which other companies are focusing just now. But Microsoft has already changed its priority from 3D to aerial photographs.

It is worth noting that the first Bing Maps map service (updated Live Search Maps) was shown in 2009, and the first stable version of the product was announced in December 2010. Now the total number of Bing Maps covers an area of ​​38 million square kilometers.

Via thenextweb