Methods and systems for road recognition and traffic counting for complex thoroughfares are described. The method includes receiving a set of video frames captured by one or more electronic devices. The set of video frames includes a capture of a thoroughfare. The method further includes identifying an object featured in each respective video frame of a subset of the set of video frames, generating a plurality of vectors corresponding to a direction of motion of the object, combining intersecting vectors of the plurality of vectors, and generating a graphical map of at least one road in the thoroughfare based at least in part on the combination of intersecting vectors.