Azure Maps

Get world-class location and mobility technology

Create your solutions using real-time location intelligence powered by world-class mobility technology partners TomTom, AccuWeather, and Moovit. Easily integrate advanced location and mobility capabilities into your applications with geospatial services that are native to Azure Maps.

Build location intelligence solutions for IoT and AI

Develop secure, scalable IoT and AI solutions with dynamic, location-based services. Enable everything from vehicle routing, traffic simulation, and asset tracking services to POI details and satellite imagery analysis.

Create rich data visualizations for your web and mobile apps

Manage and customize your data representations with multiple map layers, such as heatmaps, image layers, and HTML markers. Select from rich visual imagery styles, including satellite, grayscale, and shaded relief tiles.

Use Azure Maps with open source and other familiar map controls

Build your location-aware solutions with a seamless development experience. Easily integrate open source and other map controls, including OpenLayers, Leaflet, and Cesium, as well as Open Geospatial Consortium standards, such as GeoJSON and KML.

Search

Create apps that provide details about nearby points of interest (POI), render locations on a map, and geocode (or reverse geocode) addresses to get corresponding latitude/longitude coordinates.

Traffic

Develop mobility solutions that improve travel time and avoid gridlock. Offer multiple alternate routes around traffic jams, insight into the length of the backup and the time it takes to get through it, and a faster travel experience during rush hour.

Maps

Integrate clear, easy-to-read maps into your solutions with the JavaScript Map Control or the Render API. The maps update dynamically, so your customers get constantly refreshed information. Build web and mobile apps with web and Android SDKs.

Routing

Present the shortest or fastest routes available—to multiple destinations at a time—or provide specialized routes and facts for walkers, bicyclists, and commercial vehicles. Optimize route calculations with isochrones, matrix routing, and batch routing.

Time zones

Make it easy for users to see what time it is anywhere in the world. Select a location to find the time zone, its offset to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and daylight saving time updates.

Elevation

Lookup elevation data for locations anywhere on the surface of the Earth. Create valuable data products and apps that utilize globally consistent digital terrain model datasets served through Azure Maps APIs.

Spatial operations

Enhance your location intelligence with a library of common geospatial mathematical calculations, including geofencing, closest point, great circle distance, and buffers.

Geolocation ^Preview

Look up the country of an IP address. Customize content and services based on user location and gain insight on customer geographic distribution.

Data Service ^Preview

Upload and store geospatial data for use with spatial operations or image composition to reduce latency, increase productivity, and enable new scenarios within your applications.

Mobility ^Preview

Provide real-time location intelligence on nearby public transit services, including stops, route information, and travel time estimations.

Weather Service

Obtain current weather conditions, weather forecast, and weather along a route to enable weather based decisions within your applications.

Creator

Create and publish your maps maintaining control of design, distribution, scale and access by converting various mapping file formats to be used in conjunction with Azure Maps and other Azure services.

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