

The Streetside imagery covers more than 80% of the US population with 360 degree views. Our aim is that it continues to encourage the community to contribute and improve OpenStreetMap.

This is the same imagery currently visible on Bing Maps now embedded into a popular editing application initially developed and now maintained by Mapbox. This week Microsoft is integrating its Streetside imagery for the United States into iD, a popular web-based editor for contributing to OpenStreetMap. We continue to have an interest in fostering a thriving and growing community of both contributors and users of OpenStreetMap. This includes being the first company to provide aerial imagery to the community for editing and, more recently, our release of almost ten million building footprints. Microsoft has a long history of working with the community to help improve OpenStreetMap.
