Automatically Detect Roads with Bing Aerial Imagery

We’re excited to announce access to an experimental service which can automatically derive street vector data from Bing aerial imagery. Simply put; this means you can derive the position and curves of a road by specifying the end points. Here’s a simple video to demonstrate what’s happening;

We’re looking forward to see what the developer community does with this, especially editors of OpenStreetMap. You can find the service and documentation here. Let us know how you like it!