GlobalMLBuildingFootprints

Introduction

Bing Maps is releasing open building footprints around the world. We have detected 1.4B buildings from Bing Maps imagery between 2014 and 2024 including Maxar, Airbus, and IGN France imagery. The data is freely available for download and use under CDLA Permissive 2.0. This dataset includes our other releases.

Updates

• 2026-02-03 - Added 1.2M building footprints and 1.2M height estimates derived from Vexcel imagery between 2021 and 2025. All contributions are from the United States (1.2M). dataset-links.csv updated 3 February 2026.
• 2026-01-27 - Added 1.0M building footprints and 1.0M height estimates derived from Vexcel imagery between 2021 and 2025. All contributions are from the United States (1.1M). dataset-links.csv updated 27 January 2026.
• 2026-01-23 - Added 1.0M building footprints and 1.0M height estimates derived from Vexcel imagery between 2021 and 2025. All contributions are from the United States (1.1M). dataset-links.csv updated 23 January 2026.
• 2026-01-18 - Added 1.9M building footprints and 1.9M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2020 and 2025. All contributions are from the United States (1.1M). dataset-links.csv updated 18 January 2026.
• 2026-01-09 - Added 3.5M building footprints and 3.4M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2020 and 2025. Largest contributions are to Belgium (1.8M), Netherlands (1.6M), and Germany (1.1M). dataset-links.csv updated 09 January 2026.
• 2025-02-28 - Added 18M building footprints and 4.2M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2017 and 2024. Largest contributions are to Turkey (5.8M), Greece (6M), and France (3.8M). dataset-links.csv updated 28 February 2025.
• 2025-02-03 - Added 7.4M building footprints and 2.4M height estimates derived from from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2020 and 2024. The largest contributions are to France (5.8M) and the United States (1.2M). dataset-links.csv updated 3 February 2025.
• 2025-01-06 - Added 9.6M building footprint edits derived from Maxar imagery between 2021 and 2024. Largest contributions are to Chile (3.4M), Norway (2M), Brazil (2M), and Sweden (1.5M). No new height estimates. dataset-links.csv updated 6 January 2025.
• 2024-12-02 - Added 12M building footprint edits and 554k height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2018 and 2024. The largest contributions are to Sudan (5.5M), Ethiopia (3.3M), and Saudi Arabia (590k). dataset-links.csv updated on 2 December 2024. Changed merge logic to update tiles at LOD 19 instead of LOD 15 reducing update boundary visibility.
• 2024-11-07 - Dataset hosting is moving! You will notice dataset-links.csv has a new url https://minedbuildings.z5.web.core.windows.net/global-buildings/dataset-links.csv. All links are updated from https://minedbuildings.blob.core.windows.net/ -> https://minedbuildings.z5.web.core.windows.net/. Older versions will not be moved but updates will be available at this new location going forward.
• 2024-11-01 - Added 12M building footprint edits and 3.2M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2019 and 2024. The largest contributions are to the US (3.2M), Argentina (2.8M), and Iran (2.4M). dataset-links.csv updated on 1 November 2024.
• 2024-09-25 - Added 4.7M building footprint edits and 4.4M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2019 and 2024. The largest contributions are to the US (2.6M) and UK (1.5M). dataset-links.csv updated on 25 September 2024.
• 2024-08-27 - Added 4.8M building footprint edits and 2.1M height estimates derived from Vexcel and Maxar imagery between 2019 and 2024. The largest contributions are for the United States (1.7M), South Africa (1.5M), and Brazil (1.1M). dataset-links.csv updated on 28 August 2024.
• 2024-07-30 - Added 1.6M building footprint edits and 1.5M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2020 and 2024. The largest contribution was in the United States. dataset-links.csv updated on 6 August 2024.
• 2024-06-25 - Added 380K building footprint edits and 364K height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2020 and 2024. The largest contribution was in the United States. dataset-links.csv updated on 27 June 2024.
• 2024-06-03 - Added 637K building footprint edits and 627K height estimated derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2020 and 2024. Primary contribution is in the United States (631K). dataset-links.csv was updated on 3 June 2024.
• 2024-05-01 - Added 596K building footprint edits and 125K height estimated derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2017 and 2023. Primary contributions are in France (525K) and Germany (44K). dataset-links.csv was updated on 1 May 2024.
• 2024-03-26 - Added 128M building footprint edits and 3.5M height estimated derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2019 and 2023. Primary contributions are in India (110M) and Nepal (7M). dataset-links.csv was updated on 1 April 2024.
• 2024-03-01 - added 58M new building footprint edits and 10M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2019 and 2023. The largest contributions are to Brazil (43M), United States (4.7M), and Germany (3.5M).
• 2024-02-01 - added 47M new building footprint edits and 26M height estimates derived from Maxar, Vexcel and IGN-France imagery between 2016 and 2023. The largest contributions are to Germany (8M) and United States (8M).
• 2024-01-03 - added 35M new building footprint edits and 15M height estimates derived from Vexcel and Maxar imagery between 2016 and 2022. The largest contributions are to Brazil (19M) and Italy (15M).
• 2023-12-01 - added 69M building footprint edits and 2M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2015 and 2023. Biggest contributions are Egypt (11M), Algeria (8M), and France (7M). We've added confidence scores to new footprints. See Building confidence scores.
• 2023-10-20 - Added 95M building footprint edits and 9M height estimates derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2017 and 2023. Updated structures in 52 countries with the largest contributors in Mexico (17M), Ethiopia (16M) and Kenya (15M).
• 2023-10-02 - Added 77M buildings footprint edits derived from Maxar and Vexcel imagery between 2018 and 2023. Updated structures in 35 countries with the top 3 contributions in India (24M), Bangladesh (19M), and Pakistan (14M).
• 2023-09-05 - Added 38M building footprint edits and 21M height estimates derived from Vexcel and Maxar imagery from 2018 to 2023. Updated structures in 22 countries primarily in the United States (13M), United Kingdom (7.6M), and Peru (9M).
• 2023-08-22 - Added 730K buildings from Vexcel imagery between 2020 and 2022. The largest updates are for Spain (369K), Austria (196K), and Germany (69K).
• 2023-07-24 - added 5M new buildings from Digital Globe and Maxar. Biggest contribution is Australia (5M).
• 2023-06-05 - Combining all building footprint releases into one distribution. Total footprints: 1.2B. Footprints with height: 174M. Updated coverage map and associated features. Other data sources will remain unchanged.
• 2023-05-31 - added 49M updated footprints and 10M height attributes from Vexcel and Maxar imagery. Biggest contributions are Nigeria (18M), United States (9M), and Burkina Faso (7M).
• 2023-05-18 - added 77M buildings heights to the US and Western Europe. See Coverage map.
• 2023-04-28 - Improved near duplicate and overlapping data detection and removal.
• 2023-03-13 - Added 41MM new buildings in Japan derived from Maxar Imagery (FP rate 0.8%). Added 79M building height estimates for North America structures.
• 2022-11-16 - Added 40M new and updated buildings across 46 geographies derived from Bing imagery including Maxar, IGN-France, and AirBus between 2015 and 2022. The largest updates are for Pakistan (16M), Turkey (13M), Afghanistan (3M), and Saudi Arabia (2.5M). Added make-gis-friendly.py demonstrating how to convert files into a GIS tool (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS) friendly format.
• 2022-10-12 - Added 147M new buildings for North America based on Vexcel and Maxar imagery between 2017 and 2022. This data is a refresh of US. Updated data format from country-partitioned zip files to country-l9 quad key gzipped partitioned files. Each file extension is .csv.gz but the contents are geojsonl. False positive rate for this dataset is ~1% based on a 4k structure sample. Link table was moved to a dataset-links.csv
• 2022-07-08 - Added 78M buildings in Western EU Countries from Maxar imagery between 2014 and 2021 bringing the total structure count to 856M. Added link to download buildings coverage.
• 2022-07-05 - The complete building footprints dataset is available on [Microsoft's Planetary Computer](https://plan