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Traffic - Get Traffic Incident Viewport

Use to get legal and technical information for a viewport.

The Traffic Incident Viewport API is an HTTP GET request that returns legal and technical information for the viewport described in the request. It should be called by client applications whenever the viewport changes (for instance, through zooming, panning, going to a location, or displaying a route). The request should contain the bounding box and zoom level of the viewport whose information is needed. The return will contain map version information, as well as the current Traffic Model ID and copyright IDs. The Traffic Model ID returned by the Viewport Description is used by other APIs to retrieve last traffic information for further processing.

GET https://atlas.microsoft.com/traffic/incident/viewport/{format}?api-version=1.0&boundingbox={boundingbox}&boundingzoom={boundingzoom}&overviewbox={overviewbox}&overviewzoom={overviewzoom}
GET https://atlas.microsoft.com/traffic/incident/viewport/{format}?api-version=1.0&boundingbox={boundingbox}&boundingzoom={boundingzoom}&overviewbox={overviewbox}&overviewzoom={overviewzoom}&copyright={copyright}

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description
format
path True

ResponseFormat

Desired format of the response. Value can be either json or xml.

api-version
query True

string

Version number of Azure Maps API.

boundingbox
query True

number[]

Bounding box of the map viewport in EPSG900913 projection. The boundingbox is represented by two value pairs describing it's corners (first pair for lower left corner and second for upper right). When this endpoint is called directly, all values should be separated by commas (e.g., minY,minX,maxY,maxX). The maximum size of the bounding box that can be passed is dependent on the requested zoom level. The width and height cannot exceed 4092 pixels when rendered on the given zoom level.

NOTE: Bounding boxes that cross the 180° meridian require special treatment. For such boxes, the eastern maxX value will be negative, and thus less than the minX value west of the 180° meridian. To address that, the value 40075016.6855874 should be added to the true maxX value before it is passed in the request.

boundingzoom
query True

integer

int32

Zoom level of the map viewport. Used to determine whether the view can be zoomed in.

overviewbox
query True

number[]

Bounding box of the overview map in EPSG900913 projection.

Used in case the overview box/mini map has different copyright data than the main map. If there is no mini map, the same coordinates as boundingBox is used. When this endpoint is called directly, coordinates are passed in as a single string containing four coordinates, separated by commas.

overviewzoom
query True

integer

int32

Zoom level of the overview map. If there is no mini map, use the same zoom level as boundingZoom.

copyright
query

boolean

Determines what copyright information to return. When true the copyright text is returned; when false only the copyright index is returned.

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

TrafficIncidentViewport

OK

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.

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

Request traffic incident information for the selected viewport

Sample request

GET https://atlas.microsoft.com/traffic/incident/viewport/json?api-version=1.0&boundingbox=-939584.4813015489,-23954526.723651607,14675583.153020501,25043442.895825107&boundingzoom=2&overviewbox=-939584.4813018347,-23954526.723651607,14675583.153020501,25043442.89582291&overviewzoom=2&copyright=True

Sample response

{
  "viewpResp": {
    "trafficState": {
      "@trafficAge": 18895,
      "@trafficModelId": "1504808593298"
    },
    "copyrightIds": "© 2017 GeoSmart^© 2017 TomTom^© 2017 Whereis",
    "@version": "1.0.51-mascoma",
    "@maps": "europe,taiwan,latam,northamerica,israel,middleeast,iraq,guam,australia,newzealand,india,africa,world,southeastasia"
  }
}

Definitions

Name Description
ErrorAdditionalInfo

The resource management error additional info.

ErrorDetail

The error detail.

ErrorResponse

Error response

ResponseFormat

Desired format of the response. Value can be either json or xml.

TrafficIncidentViewport

This object is returned from a successful Traffic Incident Viewport call

TrafficState

Traffic State information

ViewpResp

Viewport Response object

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.

ResponseFormat

Desired format of the response. Value can be either json or xml.

TrafficIncidentViewport

This object is returned from a successful Traffic Incident Viewport call

Name Type Description
viewpResp

ViewpResp

Viewport Response object

TrafficState

Traffic State information

Name Type Description
@trafficAge

integer

The elapsed time (in seconds) from the Traffic Model ID creation.

@trafficModelId

string

The unique ID called Traffic Model ID is used in calls to Traffic Incident services. It allows to obtain information from particular traffic updates. Traffic Model ID is updated every minute, and is valid for two minutes before it times out.

ViewpResp

Viewport Response object

Name Type Description
@maps

string

Indicates the data provider's internal names for the map data used in the viewport. For use with support queries.

@version

string

Indicates the software version used to generate the information. For use with support queries.

copyrightIds

string

When the copyright parameter value is true, this contains the full text of the copyright information that must be displayed with the tiles in the viewport

trafficState

TrafficState

Traffic State information