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March182020

Facebook’s Street Maps RapiD Editor Now Includes Microsoft Building Footprints

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Facebook’s Street Maps RapiD Editor Now Includes Microsoft Building Footprints

Bing Maps has generated high quality building footprints leveraging the power of AI over the past few years. When Facebook reached out to our team to partner on enriching their RapiD editor with Microsoft Buildings, it was an obvious match.
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September192019

Microsoft releases 18M building footprints in Uganda and Tanzania to enable AI Assisted Mapping

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Microsoft releases 18M building footprints in Uganda and Tanzania to enable AI Assisted Mapping

Under Microsoft’s AI for Humanitarian Action program, Bing Maps together with Microsoft Philanthropies is partnering with HOT on an initiative to bring AI Assistance as a resource in open map building. The initiative focuses on incorporating design updates, integrating machine learning, and bringing new open building datasets into Tasking Manager.
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June282018

Microsoft Releases 130 million Building Footprints in the USA as Open Data

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Microsoft Releases 130 million Building Footprints in the USA as Open Data

Bing has made very significant investments in the area of deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to support a number of different search scenarios. The Bing Maps team has been applying these techniques as well with the goal to increase the coverage of building footprints available for OpenStreetMap.
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