{"id":83348,"date":"2012-03-27T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/digitalglobe-inks-two-imagery-licensing-deals-with-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:41:59","slug":"digitalglobe-inks-two-imagery-licensing-deals-with-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/digitalglobe-inks-two-imagery-licensing-deals-with-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"DigitalGlobe Inks Two Imagery Licensing Deals With Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-27-12] High-resolution earth imagery provider <b>DigitalGlobe<\/b> has signed two licensing agreements with <b>Microsoft<\/b>, the company confirmed March 26.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The first agreement more than doubles the volume of high-resolution imagery DigitalGlobe delivers to Microsoft for use in its Bing Maps service. The imagery will be delivered on a quarterly basis to provide refreshed content covering millions of square kilometers of the Earth\u2019s surface.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The second agreement enables Microsoft Studios to extensively feature DigitalGlobe imagery in its recently launched Forza Motorsport 4 racing game for the Xbox 360. Both agreements took effect in the fourth quarter of 2011.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe\u2019ve chosen to expand the use of DigitalGlobe satellite imagery to provide broader global coverage in Bing Maps,\u201d Microsoft General Manager Steve Stanzel said in a statement. \u201cWith this increase and our continued work with DigitalGlobe for the collection of high-definition aerial imagery, we are improving our maps worldwide to offer a more comprehensive, consistent and functional mapping experience.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Financial details of the agreements were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-27-12] High-resolution earth imagery provider DigitalGlobe has signed two licensing agreements with Microsoft, the company confirmed March 26. &nbsp; &nbsp;The first agreement more than doubles the volume of high-resolution imagery DigitalGlobe delivers to Microsoft for use in its Bing Maps service. The imagery will be delivered on a quarterly basis to provide refreshed content covering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}