Azure Maps Documentation

Microsoft Azure Maps provides developers from all industries with powerful geospatial capabilities. Those geospatial capabilities are packed with the freshest mapping data. Azure Maps is available for both web and mobile applications. Azure Maps is an Azure One API compliant set of REST APIs. The following are only a high-level overview of the services which Azure Maps offers - Maps, Search, Routing, Traffic, Weather, Time Zones, Geolocation, Geofencing, Map Data, Creator, and Spatial Operations. The Web and Android SDKs make development easy, flexible, and portable across multiple platforms.

About Azure Maps

Overview

• What is Azure Maps?

Concept

• Azure Maps Coverage
• Localization support
• Supported map styles

video

• Introduction to Azure Maps

Get Started

Quickstart

• Create a web application using Azure Maps
• Create an Android app using Azure Maps
• Create an iOS app using Azure Maps

Concept

• Choose the right pricing tier for Maps account
• Authentication with Azure Maps

How-To Guide

• Manage Azure Maps accounts
• Manage authentication with Azure Maps
• Manage Azure Maps account pricing tier
• View Azure Maps API usage metrics

Developing with Creator

Concept

• Indoor map concepts

Tutorial

• Use Creator to create indoor maps data

How-To Guide

• Manage Creator
• Implement Dynamic styling for indoor maps
• Use Azure Maps drawing error visualizer
• Use the indoor map module
• Use Azure Digital Twins to update indoor map

Reference

• Conversion service
• Dataset service
• Tileset service
• Feature stateset service

Developing with Web SDK

Concept

• Getting started with web map control
• Azure Maps web SDK code samples
• Web SDK supported browsers

Tutorial

• Search for point of interest
• Route to a point of interest
• Create a store locator

How-To Guide

• Use the Azure Maps map control
• Use the drawing tools module
• Use the services module
• Use the spatial IO module
• Web SDK supported browsers

Reference

• Map control
• Drawing tools module
• Service module
• Spatial IO module

Developing with Android SDK

Tutorial

• Load GeoJSON data into map

How-To Guide

• Getting started with Android map control
• Create a data source
• Add a bubble layer
• Add a symbol layer
• Add a line layer
• Add a polygon layer
• Add heat map layer
• Cluster point data
• Use data-driven style expressions

Developing with iOS SDK

Quickstart

• Create an iOS app using Azure Maps

How-To Guide

• Getting started with the iOS map control

Developing with Location-Based Services

Concept

• Zoom levels and tile grids

Tutorial

• EV Routing using Azure Notebooks (Python)

How-To Guide

• Search for an address (geocoding)
• Best Practices using Search Service
• Best Practices using Route Service
• Render custom data on static map

Reference

• Search Service
• Route Service
• Traffic Service
• Time Zones Service

Developing with Elevation service

How-To Guide

• How to retrieve and use elevation data

Reference

• Elevation Service

Spatial Analytics

Concept

• Azure Maps Event Grid integration

How-To Guide

• Set up a geofence using Azure Maps
• Implement IoT spatial analytics using Azure Maps

Reference

• Data Service
• Spatial Service

Spatial analysis with Power BI

How-To Guide

• Getting started
• Understanding layers
• Manage access

Azure Maps in Power Apps

How-To Guide

• Interactive map component

Developing with Weather services

Concept

• Weather services concepts
• Weather services FAQ

Tutorial

• Analyze weather data using Azure Notebooks (Python)

How-To Guide

• Request real-time and forecasted weather data

Reference

• Weather services