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Microsoft Releases 125 Million Building Footprints In the US To the OpenStreetMap Community (mspoweruser.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the come-and-get-it dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MSPoweruser: Today, Microsoft announced that it is releasing 124 Million building footprints in the United States to the OpenStreetMap community. Bing Maps team used Microsoft's CNTK Unified Toolkit to apply its Deep Neural Networks and the ResNet34 with RefineNet up-sampling layers to detect building footprints from the Bing imagery. OpenStreetMap currently has 30,567,953 building footprints in the U.S., thanks to editor contributions and various city or county wide imports. Using DNNs and Bing Imagery, Microsoft has extracted 124,885,597 footprints in the United States and making it available for download free of charge.

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  1. Re:Microsoft has redeemed itself. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You don't use Windows 10 you use the applications running on it. Or are you just complaining about having to use File Explorer or Notepad? And you certainly should have no complaints about using a browser of your choice since Windows supports every browser being used by the masses today. There are plenty of areas you can complain about regarding Windows 10 but I have many more complaints and issues when trying to use the poorly cloned substitutes on other platforms like Linux. And keep your security assessments to yourself until after you do a little eyes wide open research into the number of reported security related bugs and potential exploits that exist in all the different variants of the nix OS's.