What's the best practice with fuzzy search, when important cities (e.g. capitals) are not found with entityType=Municipality?

It looks like a possible data issue, or just a priority issue. The Fuzzy search service tends to prefer points of interest over geographic locations. This may be the cause.

If you are just looking for cities, I recommend using the V2 search geocoding service and passing your query into the locality parameter. For example:

https://atlas.microsoft.com/geocode?api-version=2022-02-01-preview&subscription-key={Your_Azure_Maps_Key}&locality={query}

Cities will have a result type of PopulatedPlace. Trying these with the list of cities you provided works much more reliably.

Hello @Wildanger, Martin ,

I would agree with @rbrundritt on this one. I believe "municipality" may have a different interpretation in the data. Search V2 uses the Bing Maps entity types

Sincerely,
IoTGirl

From: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/spatial-data-services/geodata-api

entityType = A string that contains one of the following the entity types. Note that not all entity types are available for each location.

• CountryRegion: Country or region
• AdminDivision1: First administrative level within the country/region level, such as a state or a province.
• AdminDivision2: Second administrative level within the country/region level, such as a county.
• Postcode1: The smallest post code category, such as a zip code.
• Postcode2: The next largest post code category after Postcode1 that is created by aggregating Postcode1 areas.
• Postcode3: The next largest post code category after Postcode2 that is created by aggregating Postcode2 areas.
• Postcode4: The next largest post code category after Postcode3 that is created by aggregating Postcode3 areas.
• Neighborhood: A section of a populated place that is typically well-known, but often with indistinct boundaries.
• PopulatedPlace: A concentrated area of human settlement, such as a city, town or village.