microsoft map ai team
Discover New Roads with Bing Maps
The Microsoft Maps AI Team has detected 47.8M km of all roads and 1.16M km of missing roads from Open Street Maps (OSM). These new roads were detected using Bing Maps imagery collected between 2020 and 2022 including sources from both Maxar and Airbus. The complete set of roads is now available to Bing Maps Users but also shared on Github with the open data community and is freely available for download and use under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). The Microsoft Maps AI team's network was based on UNet and ResNet and the following papers [U-Net] (https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04597), The model was trained using the Keras toolkit with Bing Maps 512x512 images, it is fully convolutional, which allows images of any size (that are divisible by 64) to be processed by the model (constrained to 1088x1088 with 100 cm/pixel resolution by GPU (graphics processing unit) memory in this instance).