165 Terabytes of New HD Imagery added to Bing Maps

Bing has recently added a whopping 165TB of high resolution Bird's Eye aerial imagery to their maps service. The new images cover about 23.6 million square miles of North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. This is Bing's largest imagery update yet, and the service now holds 302TB of images worldwide. The images are quite impressive, for example check out this incredible shot of Disney Land in Tokyo.

For more details visit the Bing Maps Blog Post.

Bing also rolled out thousands of updates to Venue maps to cover shopping malls in Europe. A list of all the new locations added is available at bing.com/maps/venues.

It certainly seems that we're only years away from the entire planet, at least the planets main land masses, being fully digitally recorded in high resolution by several companies. Sometimes you have to take a step back to consider what a feat this is considering the technological hurdles that have been solved, and how fast these services are. Just 20 years ago, if you had shown this technology to someone they would have been absolutely stunned, yet so many of us take it for granted today.