Microsoft makes regular updates to the images for its Bing Maps service and this week the company announced it has added 13 million square kilometers of aerial photos from around the world to its database. The images themselves have a total file size of 315.92 terabytes.
The Bing Maps blog has a photo that points out the locations of the new aerial images in yellow dots. You might notice that the continental US and much of western Europe don't have any such dots. That's because Microsoft completed a project that added high resolution aerial photos for Bing Maps that covered both territories back in August 2012.
However, there's plenty to see in this image update, including new views of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil (home of the 2016 Summer Olympics) along with other parts of South America. Sections of Africa, Asia, Mexico, Canada and Australia have also been upgraded with the new images as well as parts of Alaska and Hawaii.
We are still waiting for Microsoft to launch the promised new 3D version of Bing Maps. The company confirmed at BUILD 2013 that such a project is in development and will use Internet Explorer 11 and WebGL.
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