Azure Maps overview
Azure Maps is a set of mapping and geospatial services that enable developers and organizations to build intelligent location-based experiences for applications across many different industries and use cases. Use Azure Maps to bring maps, geocoding, location search, routing, real-time traffic, geolocation, time zone information and weather data into your web, mobile and server-side solutions.
The following table shows an overview of the services that Azure Maps offers:
| API | Description |
|---|---|
| Data Registry | Programmatically store and update geospatial data to use in spatial operations. |
| Geolocation | Convert IP addresses to country/region ISO codes. |
| Render | Get road, satellite/aerial, weather, traffic map tiles and static map images. |
| Route | Calculate optimized travel times and distances between locations for multiple modes of transportation and get localized travel instructions. |
| Search | Geocode addresses and coordinates, search for business listings and places by name or category and get administrative boundary polygons. |
| Spatial | Use geofences, great circle distances and other spatial operations to analyze location data. |
| Timezone | Get time zone and sunrise/sunset information for specified locations. |
| Traffic | Get current traffic information including traffic flow and traffic incident details. |
| Weather | Get current, forecasted and historical weather conditions, air quality, tropical storm details and weather along a route. |
For more information on Azure Maps, see What is Azure Maps?.
For Azure Maps pricing information, see Azure Maps pricing and Understanding Azure Maps Transactions.
For information on creating indoor maps for use in Azure Maps, see What is Azure Maps Creator?