Offline capability

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Offline capability

Balasaheb Molawade 141

Hi,

We have a requirement to make our application work in offline mode. Currently, we are using the Bing Maps v8 API. Is it possible to use Bing Maps in offline mode?

We are also exploring Azure Maps. Is it possible to achieve offline capability using Azure Maps, and do you have any sample code for the same.

Thanks!

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rbrundritt 21,711 Volunteer Moderator

Bing Maps does not support offline mode.

With Azure Maps it is possible to self-host the web SDK as it's available via NPM. I believe it can work offline with a bit of configuring, but it won't have any access to any of the map data, so you would need to have a local tile layer available for offline use. I've done this before with version 2 of Azure Maps, I'll have to try out version 3 (lots of map style changes that may impact things).

Balasaheb Molawade 141 Reputation points

2024-05-27T06:29:19.51+00:00

Hi Ricky,

Thanks for your reply. Do you have any reference link that we can follow to work with Azure Maps in offline mode.

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rbrundritt 21,711 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2024-05-28T16:48:43.7466667+00:00

I don't have any reference links at the moment. Using web map controls offline isn't a common scenario I've seen anywhere with any platform. I suspect this is mainly due to them relying on hosted map tiles which can be difficult to serve offline.

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