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Data and Insights

Current and historical geospatial data to power your applications.

Azure Maps provides current and historical data to help you build your applications and create new insights to support business decisions, enable planning, and power predictions. Combine Azure Maps data with data in your Azure account to do even more.

Smart decisions and plans, powered by data.

Azure Maps Data and Insights offers a comprehensive suite of features and discover how you can unlock valuable insights to drive informed decision-making.

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Rich geospatial data

Access a vast repository of high-quality geospatial data curated from diverse sources worldwide, providing a comprehensive view of the physical environment and leverage powerful analytics tools to extract actionable insights from spatial data, uncovering hidden patterns, trends, and correlations that drive strategic initiatives.

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Boundless flexibility

Benefit from Azure's robust and scalable infrastructure, enabling you to process and analyze large volumes of spatial data efficiently and cost-effectively that helps you visualize spatial data in a way that suits your needs, with customizable maps, charts, and dashboards that facilitate clear communication and decision-making.

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Industry-specific compliance

Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements by accessing geospatial data that meets the highest standards of accuracy, privacy, and security with spatial analytics solutions tailored to your industry's unique compliance criteria, whether you're in retail, logistics, real estate, or urban planning.

Data and Insights

Azure Maps makes it easy to use and integrate accurate geospatial data into your applications to unlock new insights.

Data Registry APIs

Data Registry APIs enable you to register geospatial data in an Azure Storage Account with Azure Maps. This allows you to manage and use your stored data for many use cases, such as custom geofences or preferred routes.

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All In One Place

Data Registry APIs allow storing, retrieving, and managing your geospatial data and insights. You can save previously created geofences, routes, and more. Storing and retrieving frequently used geospatial data, and calculations makes applications quicker and more efficient.

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Timezone

The timezone service allows developers to query the timezone for any latitude/longitude. The timezone service can return past, current, and future timezones, localized time zones in UTC, or daylight savings in various formats.

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Traffic Data

The traffic service provides data on traffic flow and incidents for a given area or route and presents this information as a map overlay using the traffic data API. This data provides insights and critical awareness of flow and incidents along a route that could affect routes, distance, and travel time between locations.

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Weather Data

The weather service provides daily, historical, normal, and actuals for any latitude/longitude while also providing temperature, air quality, and storm information using the weather data API. The Weather service provides valuable data to inform prediction and modeling based on current and forecasted data allowing for the development of applications that are weather-informed.

More features from Azure Maps

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Indoor Mapping

Create compelling experiences quickly with accurate indoor maps from CAD files. Easily customize and render maps to match any use case. Indoor mapping and wayfinding has never been easier.

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Location Services

Locate addresses, places, and points of interest around the globe. Geolocate IP addresses or use geocoding to convert addresses to coordinates or GPS coordinates to addresses.

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Mapping and Visualization

Azure Maps lets you visualize your data on a variety of map styles. Bring your own data from multiple sources to power your decision making.

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Routes and Directions

Azure Maps offers routing for cars, trucks, and pedestrians, helping you find efficient routes that take into account traffic and local restrictions.

Getting Started Guide

Sign up / sign in to the Azure Portal and start building today.

Technical Documentation

Explore quickstarts, how-to-guides, tutorials, and API reference documentation.

Coding Samples

Visit the Azure Maps web control sample gallery to browse code samples.

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