You might have noticed that Bing Maps has been releasing open building footprints around the world. As of June 6th, 2023, we have detected 1.2B buildings from Bing Maps imagery between 2014 and 2023 including Maxar, Airbus, and IGN France imagery and released a new full dataset.
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Maps Blog - Posts tagged with 'Open 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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Last week when we announced our increased engagement with the open mapping community. We mentioned that Bing Maps would be donating some of its imagery to OpenStreetMap (OSM) for their community to use.
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On October 23, 2007, at the annual Geoint 2007 Symposium, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that Microsoft Corporation has joined the consortium as a Principal Member. Government agencies worldwide are realizing the power of geospatial applications to meet their missions in ways that are unprecedented
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