Azure Maps
Cloud location services built on Microsoft Azure.
With Azure Maps, you can build location-aware geospatial applications that can improve your day-to-day business operations. Azure Maps provides APIs for geocoding, geolocation mapping, routing, traffic, map visualizations, and weather data that can easily be integrated into public or private for web, windows, or mobile applications.
Use Cases
Seamless integration with the trusted Azure platform allows you to develop map-based applications with ease.
Mapping for your Business
Azure Maps enables users to convert an address or region name into geographic coordinates, which can be used with other location-based services. This allows businesses to obtain accurate location data for customers, delivery vehicles, and stores.
Generate Location Insights
Use geolocation and mapping capabilities to generate new insights, with built-in analytics and map visualizations. Businesses can discover location-based trends and make decisions about where to open a new location or what items are more interesting to their customers in a region
Accurate Routing & Tracking
Generate safe and efficient routes by leveraging Azure Maps routing services which include historical traffic for predicting potential delays. Companies can reduce travel time, costs and increase driver safety while also optimizing deliveries or service calls and ensure customer satisfaction.
Complete mapping services
Azure Maps provides location services including real-time traffic data, geofencing, and spatial operations making it an ideal choice for any business building in the cloud. Whether you need map visualizations for aiding geospatial analytics or interactive maps for logistics and supply chain management, Azure Maps can get you started quickly and scale with you efficiently.
Maps
Maps imagery is offered in a variety of formats and zoom levels.
The maps render service provides user defined static maps tiles in a variety of formats including raster and vector formats including detailed road coverage, building footprints and point of interest. The Map tiles returned from this service can be integrated into mobile and web applications where accurate and fresh mapping data is essential.
Search
Convert addresses to latitude/longitude coordinates and vice-versa.
The search service allows you to look up and convert addresses to latitude/longitude and vice versa. It also allows you to search for the geographic outline of an area such as a city or country region. These search results can be used for a variety of use cases in combination with other mapping services.
Routing
Get directions, travel time and distance between multiple locations.
The route service provides information for a single or multiple routes including travel time and distance. The routing service makes it easy to select the best route for a single or multiple destinations within a set of custom parameters.
Traffic
Real-Time traffic speed and incident data.
The traffic service provides real-time data on traffic flow and traffic incidents for a given area or route and presents this information as a map overlay. This data provides critical awareness of flow and incidents along a route that could affect routes, distance and travel time between locations.
Weather
Historical, real-time and forecasted weather data.
The weather service provides daily historical normal and actuals for any latitude/longitude while also providing real-time temperature, air quality, and storm information. The weather service provides valuable data to inform prediction and modeling based on current and forecasted data allowing for the development of applications that are weather informed.
Maps Visualization
Display objects, points of interest, and business listings on static map images or on interactive vector map tiles – embedded in your web or mobile applications. Choose from a selection of various map styles and map data types, such as building footprints, to develop rich data visualizations.
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Axpo Trusts Azure Maps
Axpo improves power grid operation with location-enabled data
“We can speed up processes tremendously with [Azure] Cognitive Search, Azure Maps, and Power BI embedded in Insights. That means better quality power at lower costs because we don’t have to spend half of our time trying to locate the asset information.”
Johannes Manser, Head of BI and Analytics, Axpo Grid
Get Started with Azure Maps
STEP 1
Sign Up / Sign in to the Azure Portal
STEP 2
Create an Azure Account
STEP 3
Add Azure Maps Resource
STEP 4
Start learning and building
Resources and documentation
Documentation
Explore quickstarts, how-to-guides, tutorials, and API reference documentation.
Open-source code samples
Visit the Azure Maps web control sample gallery to browse code samples.
Azure Maps tech community
Ask questions and get support from Microsoft engineers and Azure community experts. Join the community.
Map control
Learn how to render maps and embed their functionality into your web or mobile apps with map control.
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Azure Maps empowers businesses build intelligent geospatial applications that are location-aware, by providing accurate geospatial data, map visualizations, and spatial operations.
