Azure Maps

Question

In Azure Maps, how?

• Block IP access
• Block access limit per client
• Use matrix maps and geocoding

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can block IP addresses access and limit access to certain individuals by using Azure Active Directory authentication with Azure Maps.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/azure-maps-authentication

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/location-condition

When you say matrix maps, I'm assuming you mean distance/travel time matrices via the matrix routing API. There are two different ways to access the matrix API via a POST request. There is a synchronous and allows up to 100 cells of a matrix to be calculated. The asynchronous API can calculate up to 700 cells of a matrix in a single request.

When using the synchronous API, the results are returned in the response. When using asynchronous API, the response has a matrix ID in the header that you can then use with the following API to download the results: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/route/get-route-matrix?tabs=HTTP

Some more details can be found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-use-best-practices-for-routing

Here is a sample that uses the asynchronous route matrix in a web app: https://samples.azuremaps.com/?search=matrix&sample=calculate-nearest-locations

If you are looking to use this API outside of a web API, you might find one of the client REST SDKs useful: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/rest-sdk-developer-guide

Geocoding can be done in a lot of ways. If creating a web app, the web SDK has a services module that makes it easy to geocode addresses:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-use-services-module

https://samples.azuremaps.com/?search=geocode&sample=

If you are looking to just geocode addresses, I recommend using the v2 search services: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/search-v2 If you also want to be able to search for points of interest or do more complex type of search, use one of the v1 search services: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/search

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-use-best-practices-for-search