Dataset - Create

Service:

Maps Creator

API Version:

2.0

Use to create a dataset.

Note

Azure Maps Creator retirement

The Azure Maps Creator indoor map service is now deprecated and will be retired on 9/30/25. For more information, see End of Life Announcement of Azure Maps Creator.

The Create API is an HTTP POST request that takes the conversionId value of the converted drawing package and returns the datasetId property of the newly created dataset. For more information, see Create a dataset.

You can use this request in a scenario like uploading a DWG zip package for a building, converting the zip package using the Azure Maps Conversion service, and creating a dataset from the converted zip package. The created dataset can be used to create tilesets using the Azure Maps Tileset service and can be queried via the Azure Maps WFS service.

Submit Create Request

To create your dataset, you will use a POST request where the conversionId query parameter is an ID that represents the converted DWG zip package, the datasetId parameter is the ID of a previously created dataset to append with the current dataset and, optionally, the description query parameter will contain a description (if description is not provided a default description will be given).

The Create API is a long-running operation.

POST https://{geography}.atlas.microsoft.com/datasets?api-version=2.0&conversionId={conversionId}

With optional parameters:

POST https://{geography}.atlas.microsoft.com/datasets?api-version=2.0&conversionId={conversionId}&datasetId={datasetId}&description={description}

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
geography	path	True	string	This parameter specifies where the Azure Maps Creator resource is located. Valid values are us and eu.
api-version	query	True	string	Version number of Azure Maps API.
conversionId	query	True	string	The unique ID used to create the dataset. The conversionId must have been obtained from a successful call to the Conversion service Convert API and may be provided with multiple query parameters with same name (if more than one is provided).
datasetId	query		string	The ID for the dataset to append with. The dataset must originate from a previous dataset creation call that matches the datasetId
description	query		string	The description to be given to the dataset.

Request Header

Name	Required	Type	Description
x-ms-client-id		string	Specifies which account is intended for usage in conjunction with the Microsoft Entra ID security model. It represents a unique ID for the Azure Maps account and can be retrieved from the Azure Maps management plane Account API. To use Microsoft Entra ID security in Azure Maps see the following articles for guidance.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	LongRunningOperationResult	The operation is running or complete. If the operation was successful, use the Resource-Location header to obtain the path to the result. Headers Resource-Location: string
202 Accepted		Request Accepted: The request has been accepted for processing. Please use the URL in the Operation-Location Header to obtain status. Headers Operation-Location: string
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	An unexpected error occurred.

Security

AADToken

These are the Microsoft Entra OAuth 2.0 Flows. When paired with Azure role-based access control it can be used to control access to Azure Maps REST APIs. Azure role-based access controls are used to designate access to one or more Azure Maps resource account or sub-resources. Any user, group, or service principal can be granted access via a built-in role or a custom role composed of one or more permissions to Azure Maps REST APIs.

To implement scenarios, we recommend viewing authentication concepts. In summary, this security definition provides a solution for modeling application(s) via objects capable of access control on specific APIs and scopes.

Notes

• This security definition requires the use of the x-ms-client-id header to indicate which Azure Maps resource the application is requesting access to. This can be acquired from the Maps management API.

The Authorization URL is specific to the Azure public cloud instance. Sovereign clouds have unique Authorization URLs and Microsoft Entra ID configurations. * The Azure role-based access control is configured from the Azure management plane via Azure portal, PowerShell, CLI, Azure SDKs, or REST APIs. * Usage of the Azure Maps Web SDK allows for configuration based setup of an application for multiple use cases.

• For more information on Microsoft identity platform, see Microsoft identity platform overview.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
https://atlas.microsoft.com/.default	https://atlas.microsoft.com/.default

subscription-key

This is a shared key that is provisioned when you Create an Azure Maps account in the Azure portal or using PowerShell, CLI, Azure SDKs, or REST API.

With this key, any application can access all REST API. In other words, this key can be used as a master key in the account that they are issued in.

For publicly exposed applications, our recommendation is to use the confidential client applications approach to access Azure Maps REST APIs so your key can be securely stored.

Type: apiKey
In: query

SAS Token

This is a shared access signature token is created from the List SAS operation on the Azure Maps resource through the Azure management plane via Azure portal, PowerShell, CLI, Azure SDKs, or REST APIs.

With this token, any application is authorized to access with Azure role-based access controls and fine-grain control to the expiration, rate, and region(s) of use for the particular token. In other words, the SAS Token can be used to allow applications to control access in a more secured way than the shared key.

For publicly exposed applications, our recommendation is to configure a specific list of allowed origins on the Map account resource to limit rendering abuse and regularly renew the SAS Token.

Type: apiKey
In: header

Examples

Create dataset from a converted CAD file provided by conversionId

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://us.atlas.microsoft.com/datasets?api-version=2.0&conversionId=[conversionId]

Sample response

Status code:

200

Resource-Location: https://us.atlas.microsoft.com/mapData/3e36b996-f6d1-b068-0fcb-dd6b014c3447?api-version=2.0

{
  "operationId": "8b1288fa-1958-4a2b-b68e-13a7i5af7d7c",
  "created": "2021-04-20T22:43:14.9401559+00:00",
  "status": "Succeeded"
}

Status code:

202

Operation-Location: https://us.atlas.microsoft.com/datasets/operations/{operationId}?api-version=2.0
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Operation-Location

Definitions

Name	Description
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response
LongRunningOperationResult	The response model for a Long-Running Operations API.
LroStatus	The status state of the request.

ErrorAdditionalInfo

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

LongRunningOperationResult

The response model for a Long-Running Operations API.

Name	Type	Description
created	string	The created timestamp.
error	ErrorDetail	The error detail.
operationId	string	The Id for this long-running operation.
status	LroStatus	The status state of the request.
warning	ErrorDetail	The error detail.

LroStatus

The status state of the request.

Name	Type	Description
Failed	string	The request has one or more failures.
NotStarted	string	The request has not started processing yet.
Running	string	The request has started processing.
Succeeded	string	The request has successfully completed.