While Azure Maps is known for great use cases around visualizing and interacting with a map and location data, you probably also need secure and reliable storage for that data that offers the flexibility to query your (location) data. In this blog post, we explore the different options for storing and querying geospatial data in Azure, including Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Blob Storage. Storing and querying geospatial data in Azure is a powerful and flexible way to manage and analyze large sets of geographic information.

Azure Maps is more than just a Map on your website. It is a complete enterprise solution for location-aware solutions. For example, you can do (reverse) geocoding of customer addresses and use an isochrone to find out withs customers a close to your store or get weather conditions for all your past sales data to know withs products sell best by rain or hot weather or get the correct time-zone for your customer by translating an IP-address to a location and get the time-zone information, or you need to know what the travel time is between two or more locations.

Enhancing your Azure Maps with a custom WebGL layer opens up a realm of possibilities for rendering dynamic 2D and 3D data. While Azure Maps provides a robust set of built-in features, there are times when you may require a more tailored solution. This is where the power of a custom WebGL layer shines. WebGL, a cross-platform and royalty-free web standard, empowers you to harness low-level 3D graphics right in your web browser.

Introduction One of the requirements when building a business application, which may give access to private business data, is that only authenticated employees or agents be able to see that data. So how can you use Azure Maps in combination with authentication and authorization to ensure only the people that should be allowed have access? Our Azure Maps docs describe in detail many different authentication scenarios but the complexity can make it seem difficult to implement.

Introduction When using Bing Maps for Enterprise in your solution/application, you need a Basic Key (limited free trial) or an Enterprise key to use the services. For example, you would add a Bing Maps Key to the script URL loading the Bing Maps Web Control like this: 1 <script src="https://www.bing.com/api/maps/mapcontrol?callback=GetMap&key={your bing maps key}"></script> Now your key is open text on your site source code and people who look can find and use your key.

The Azure Maps Power BI Visual provides a rich set of data visualizations to enhance your data with location context. In the March release of Power BI, the Azure Maps visual introduces two new tools: Geocoding capabilities and a Pie Chart layer. Geocoding in Power BI When dealing with data that has a location context, such as addresses or other geographic information, you might lack the precise point location (latitude-longitude) needed to plot these addresses on a map.

Azure Maps Weather Services, which became generally available in April 2021, has recently expanded its offerings with three new services: Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms. These additions empower developers and companies to enhance their capabilities when it comes to weather data. Historical Weather The Historical Weather API provides actuals, normals, and records climatology data by day for a specified date range, up to 31 days in a single API request.

In many enterprise organizations, there are strict processes for privacy, access, and handling of personally identifiable information (PII). Azure Maps is a global Azure service, which means it is available worldwide (except for China and South Korea), but it also needs to store metadata and logs somewhere. In addition, Azure Maps Creator is an addon for private indoor maps that also holds map data. So, where do we keep this data?