Imagery Update: Cowboys Stadium Gets Fresh Bird’s-eye & Aerial Imagery

We’re just a few days away from Super Bowl XLV and with everyone preparing for Super Sunday, we figured at Bing Maps we’d do the same. Today, we updated the Bird’s-eye and Aerial images in the Arlington area to show off Cowboys Stadium.

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For a demonstration of the imagery, check out the brief “Road to the Superbowl” video from Bing and head to http://www.bingfootball.com to see everything Bing is doing in honor of Super Bowl week.

A new SketchUp record!

Two weeks ago, we issued a free maintenance release that eliminated the much-loathed Shadow Bug (among other things) — and the SketchUp community went bananas with paroxysms of delight. We felt like Oprah on one of her “Favorite Things” episodes. More of you downloaded SketchUp 8 in the seven days after the M1 release than had ever done so in any one-week period in history.

Some of my favorite quotes from around the social web:

Great work for all SU users! It’s SU9! — GENKI via the SketchUp Blog

My first full day of work with M1. halleluja! Not a single crash in SkU or LayOut. And no more subtly changing layout view to avoid the shadow bug! Thanks for such a fantastic update. My work life is so much better now. — Hendrik via the SketchUp Blog

Congrats to the SU team. Now we can finally lurk in the shadows…hehe — NVizeon via the SketchUp Blog

What’s left for us to complain about now? — Thomas via our Facebook page

To make sure you’re running the latest (and most certainly greatest) version, open SketchUp 8 (free or Pro) and choose Help > Check for Update. If you’re on a Mac, choose SketchUp > Check Web for Update. Let’s see if we can break the record for 30-day downloads, too!