5 years ago today Steve Coast announced Microsoft’s decision to open up access to Bing imagery.

I’d be interested to know what proportion of contributions to the database cite Bing as their source, but it would have to be a very large proportion! It makes you wonder, if it weren’t for Bing imagery where OSM would be today?

I’d like to take this oppourtunity to say a big thankyou to Microsoft for allowing the OSM community to use the imagery in the way it has.