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How Urban Planning and GIS with Azure Maps Assist Local Governments
February 7, 2025
Urban planning and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) are at the heart of building sustainable, efficient cities. They shape how cities grow, help address infrastructure needs, and ensure a high quality of life for residents.

Creating Custom Map Visualizations with Azure Maps
Febrary 3, 2025
Map visualizations are critical tools in data analysis, helping businesses unlock insights hidden in location data. Azure Maps makes it simpler to create custom maps by offering powerful APIs and integration tools for developers and enterprises. Whether you’re embedding maps into a web app or creating detailed visuals in Power BI, Azure Maps enables you to customize and optimize the visualization of geospatial data to suit unique needs.

How severe weather alerts can transform mapping applications for emergency preparedness
January 19, 2025
The increasing frequency and severity of weather disasters worldwide demand robust systems for emergency preparedness. Integrating advanced weather data like weather alert APIs into mapping applications represents a transformative approach to tackling these challenges.

Enhancing mapping applications with Azure Maps’ weather forecast features
January 14, 2025
Learn how global weather forecasts in Microsoft Azure Maps can enhance your mapping applications. Reliable service up-time and 24/7 support.

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How Urban Planning and GIS with Azure Maps Assist Local Governments
February 7, 2025
Urban planning and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) are at the heart of building sustainable, efficient cities. They shape how cities grow, help address infrastructure needs, and ensure a high quality of life for residents. However, effective local government planning requires accurate data, detailed analysis, and real-time collaboration—areas where GIS and Azure Maps shine. These technologies … Continued
Creating Custom Map Visualizations with Azure Maps
February 3, 2025
Map visualizations are critical tools in data analysis, helping businesses unlock insights hidden in location data. Azure Maps makes it simpler to create custom maps by offering powerful APIs and integration tools for developers and enterprises. Whether you’re embedding maps into a web app or creating detailed visuals in Power BI, Azure Maps enables you … Continued
How severe weather alerts can transform mapping applications for emergency preparedness
January 19, 2025
The increasing frequency and severity of weather disasters worldwide demand robust systems for emergency preparedness. Integrating advanced weather data like weather alert APIs into mapping applications represents a transformative approach to tackling these challenges. Severe weather alerts powered by APIs provide location-specific, actionable information to users, businesses, and governments enhancing their ability to respond effectively … Continued
Enhancing mapping applications with Azure Maps’ weather forecast features
January 14, 2025
Azure Maps offers a reliable suite of weather services. These are a set of REST APIs that, when integrated thoughtfully, can transform how businesses interact with environmental data. There are many weather forecasts available when using Azure Maps’ weather forecast APIs and this article will explore these features, emphasizing their impact on various sectors and … Continued
Building advanced mapping software with historical weather data in Azure Maps
January 12, 2025
Developing advanced mapping software that integrates historical weather data is crucial for industries like agriculture, logistics, and urban planning. Microsoft’s Azure Maps, a robust platform, offers sophisticated services such as weather APIs for research and visualization. This article explores Azure Map’s historical weather API capabilities, highlighting its potential and providing a guide to each of … Continued
Building Smarter Maps with Azure Maps Real-Time Weather Data
January 11, 2025
Mapping capabilities are a powerful addition to any application. They track the locations of people and equipment, provide precise directions, and deliver geospatial insights businesses can use to inform their strategies. But using static basic map APIs for a geographic region when building an application does not meet the need for the real-time adaptability needed … Continued
How to Build a Shipping Routes Map
January 6, 2025
From a predictive traffic overlay to automated itineraries for hundreds of agents, creating a shipping routes map is easy with Azure Maps APIs–no matter how complex your requirements may be. We will be going through 4 core Azure Maps API features that allow developers to deliver powerful delivery route planning apps: batch geocoding, multi-itinerary optimization, … Continued
Azure Maps Routing API Knows the Shortest Route for All Waypoints
January 4, 2025
Often referred to as ‘the traveling salesman problem’, planning how to most efficiently travel to a number of stops is an age-old problem. It’s difficult enough to optimize the stops for a single driver or delivery person’s day, and the challenge compounds quickly when trying to optimize a map of routes for a fleet of … Continued
Advanced Route Tracking for Emergency Services
December 28, 2024
Routing services can be a somewhat underappreciated component when it comes to the response time and efficacy of first responders. The fact is, top-tier route tracking can make the difference between success and failure for emergency services providers. It can determine whether the paramedics arrive on time and have a shot at saving the patient, … Continued
How Route Optimization APIs Help Streamline Logistics Operations
December 22, 2024
Azure Maps’ Routing API and Location Services, for example, are versatile tools, but they’re particularly apt for fleet management and logistics operations. Developers will find a wide array of SDKs and APIs they can use not just for route optimization, but also identifying nearby rest stops, inventory tracking, and more. Here’s how robust route optimization … Continued
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Bing Maps Discontinued Services
Azure Maps’ next-generation geospatial cloud services and SDKs are constructed specifically for Microsoft Enterprise customers to provide scalable location capabilities and geographically relevant data. Learn about the resources available to help you transition from Bing Maps APis to the future of geospatial controls with Azure Maps APIs.