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Monday, 7th December 2009

Bing to Partner With NAVTEQ for "Streetside" Imagery

About a week ago we posted about a major enhancement to Bing Maps (which we have always liked, especially the "bird's eye" imagery.)

One of the features announced last week was Streetside imagery that shows a location at street-level.

Today, we learn in a Bing blog post that Bing is partnering with NAVTEQ to increase the amount of Streetside imagery available.

From the Blog Post:

Seriously, we have some massive expansion plans to include all of the areas where we don’t currently have in Streetside and they now include one of our providers of that sacred road data – Navteq. You see, while Navteq is out there collecting the best of breed road information inclusive of speed limits, bridge heights, turn restrictions, one way streets (you know, important information so you don’t get killed navigating with their data) we figured it prudent to strap a few cameras on their vehicles to record some photos. How's that for scaling out? Plus, we'll be doing monthly releases of Streetside photos similar to how we process and release monthly aerial photos and satellite imagery. And, what better camera to use than the Microsoft Vexcel UltraCam?

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