Azure Maps
Discover the Power of Location on the Azure Cloud
Leverage an advanced maps platform to power your location-based applications.
Mapping the Future, Today
Embrace the future with Azure Maps, an integrated suite of location-based tools and capabilities.
Seamless Integration
Ready to unlock new business opportunities and intelligence from your data? Start your journey today with the Azure Maps platform, where the world is at your fingertips. Seamless integration offers a cohesive experience for all your application needs.
Real-Time Data
Explore every corner of the planet with our comprehensive search, mapping, and routing features. Access real-time traffic and weather data, providing you with the most accurate and up-to-date information.
Scalable Technology
Azure Maps scales to meet your requirements, whether you’re a startup testing the geospatial waters or a multinational corporation running intricate logistical operations. Level up your enterprise capabilities with an unrivaled maps platform.
Why Azure Maps?
Uncover an advanced collection of geospatial services, integrating seamlessly with Microsoft’s cloud platform to empower your location-based applications.
Mapping & Visualization
Create beautiful, informative, and interactive maps that drive decision making and inspire user engagement.
Routing & Directions
Get the best routes for everything from deliveries to road trips with advanced routing algorithms with real-time traffic conditions for efficient planning and optimization.
Location Services
Locate addresses, places, and points of interest around the globe with our comprehensive search feature. Geolocate IP addresses or use geocoding to convert addresses to latitude/longitude coordinates or translate GPS coordinates to addresses.
Data & Insights
Leverage Azure Data services to process and analyze large volumes of spatial data to derive actionable insights.
Azure Maps Platform
Powering Your Applications with the Best of Geospatial Technology
Unleash the power of Azure Maps within your solutions with our feature-rich developer toolkit which offers you a platform with the capabilities to create engaging, location-aware maps applications with ease.
A world of possibilities
Precision
Advanced AI and comprehensive datasets to offer precise location data and routing.
Insights
Optimizing operations, our platform delivers actionable insights tailored to your specific needs.
Integration
Easy-to-use API toolkit to integrate Microsoft Maps Platform for Azure across multiple solutions.
Frequently asked questions
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The Microsoft Maps Platform is a suite of geospatial services and tools designed to provide location intelligence for businesses. It includes high-quality maps, location search capabilities, routing options, traffic data, and more. These features can be integrated into your applications, websites, or services using the platform’s APIs and SDKs.
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Any Industry that needs to know where things are and visualize them can benefit from extending their solution with APIs from the Azure Maps Toolkit. Some samples are:
- Engineering and Manufacturing – Know where your resources are for critical project management and order fulfillment.
- Healthcare – Offer HIPAA-compliant appointment scheduling with routing to those appointments, including travel time.
- Banking, Finance & Insurance – Visually evaluate the risk for flood or other hazards for loan considerations, and more.
- Government – Improve resource planning for road maintenance, smart cities, or other projects.
- Retail & E-Commerce – Elevate customer service and sales by locating current and future retail stores and optimizing deliveries.
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If you already have an Azure subscription, you just need to add an Azure Maps resource to your project and use that instance to call Azure Maps APIs
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Azure Maps benefits from the security of the Azure platform.
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Azure Maps users enjoy the same support available for all Azure resources.
