Microsoft newly enhanced maps are online at bing.com/maps. The Boulder-based Microsoft team that handles images for Bing Maps wrapped up a two-year project this week ...

The Microsoft Research team had developed a sensor-based photo deblurring method back in 2010, which was designed to use the hardware motion sensors attached to a camera to help remove any motion blur ...

Microsoft has released an improvement to its Bing Maps service with 13 million square kilometers of higher-resolution satellite imagery and the addition of better ocean typography. In a post on the ...

Hot on the heels of last week’s Read/Write World effort, Bing Maps has announced another ambitious project that will improve its imagery collection. It’s called the Global Ortho Project and the goal ...

Massive points to Microsoft on this one. Over the past three years, Microsoft has created a uniform, detailed map of the Continental United States and 17 countries in Western and Central Europe. The ...

Microsoft has been working to create a database of aerial photos that can be accessed by its Bing Maps service for a while now. Today, the company announced that their Global Ortho Project has now ...

Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its Bing Maps service, adding 13 million square kilometers or 315.92 terabytes of new aerial imagery from around the world. Locations that benefit from the ...

Microsoft has once again updated Bing Maps to include even more satellite and Global Ortho imagery. The company announced on their official blog that 121 terabytes of new data have been loaded into ...

Thought that Google had cornered the market on free, overhead-view photo mapping solutions? You clearly don't reside in Redmond, because Bing Maps' aerial image library just got another 165TB worth of ...

Back when Bing Maps was called Microsoft Virtual Earth (2006) the company bought Vexcel, a US Defense Department contractor that specialized in high resolution aerial photography and automated 3D ...

Could a technology that deblurs aerial photos put Bing in the same predicament as Google when it comes to photos taken for Street View? Not a question that Rue Liu asks -- but the notion should remain ...

When Microsoft launched Bing in June last year, I took zero interest in the new search platform. I suppose there's various reasons for this, but chief among them, no doubt, is the fact that I've been ...