« Microsoft.com website gets a new designExclusive: Microsoft Word 2013 to support built-in PDF editing »

Bing Venue Maps goes global, now available in over 30 countries

Jun 28, 2012 8:00 am by damaster | 5 comments

So it appears that the 165 terabytes of imagery data added to Bing Maps wasn’t the only update made to the mapping service. The Verge reported today that Microsoft has rolled out another update to Bing Maps which expanded the availability of Venue Maps to over 30 countries around the world, including North America, Europe as well as parts of Asia. This brings the total number of Venue Maps to over 2700*. In comparison, back in April this year, we counted only around 900 Venue Maps available, and was only available for venues in United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany only.

As a bit of history, the feature started off as Mall Maps back in December 2010, which covered shopping malls predominantly in the state of Washington, United States. Later the Bing Maps team expanded this to over 148 malls around the US, and also made it available to mobile devices. In September 2011, Microsoft started to add Airport Maps to the selection, covering 42 airports across the United States. Finally, in April 2012, the Bing Maps team expanded this feature to various different venue types, including universities, museums, malls, convention centres, and more.

You can check out the list of all Venue Maps available now by clicking here.

*edit: fixed typo

This entry was posted in Bing and tagged Bing, Bing Maps, Bing Venue Maps, mall maps. Bookmark the permalink.

Luandersonn

Not available for Brazil.
�
So Google has 90% global market share, Microsoft just does not want that Bing is a success, even today he is just “Beta” here. Sad… to Microsoft.
http://www.facebook.com/bessard Michaël Bessard

Well, there’s some stuff in France, but huh, the data is surprising. In my city, they have data on small malls but the biggest one, nope. Okay… I guess it’s still very much a work in progress.
And the mapping stuff is still a couple years behind where I live (my address doesn’t even exist), but the imagery is good enough, while it’s the reverse situation over at Google Maps.
- http://twitter.com/Henryed07 Henry Edwards
  
  The malls only happen if they Mall itself want to be featured on Bing maps. They have to work with the Bing team, there is an email address that one can send to the Mall people to get them interested.
hojsn

Well, living in Germany I actually found a mall map Close to where I live – on the web! Isn’t this feature available on WP7 devices!? And if it is, how does it work!?
- http://twitter.com/Henryed07 Henry Edwards
  
  It should work, it’s not working for me. Might not have turned it on.