This dataset provides parquet versions of Microsoft's ML road detections, mined from Bing Maps imagery. This accounts for 54.2 million kilometers of roads worldwide, mined from Bing Maps imagery in 235 countries worldwide (note that several east Asian countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea do not appear in the original Microsoft data).
For more information about the conversion or maintenance of this dataset, please contact nlebovits@pm.me.
Per Microsoft:
The vintage of the roads depends on the vintage of the underlying imagery. Because Bing Imagery is a composite of multiple sources it is difficult to know the exact dates for individual pieces of data. However data is up-to-date with freshest available imagery from Microsoft Maps.
The data are provided in parquet files partitioned by country, corresponding to the countries listed in the original Microsoft data. The original data are provided as zipped .tsv files containing GeoJSON data, totaling 67GB. Parquet compression brings the files down to under 10GB.
Each row in the dataset provides information on a specific road with associated information on individual columns:
Current version: 1.0
Version 1.0 (2025-10-20):
Per the terms of use listed by Microsoft, these data are freely available for download and use under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).