Azure Maps overview

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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 is a high-level overview of the services that Azure Maps offers:

  • Maps
  • Search
  • Routing
  • Traffic
  • Weather
  • Time zones
  • Geolocation
  • Elevation
  • Geofencing
  • Indoor maps (Creator)
  • Spatial operations
  • Data management

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