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Mapping and Visualization

Accurate, up-to-date interactive map data visualization for your applications.

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.

Infinitely customizable

Accurate base maps and imagery. Azure Maps API provides base maps in a variety of easily customizable formats to help build your application. Discover what’s possible with Azure Maps.

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Interactive maps

Azure Maps offers high-quality, customizable maps that can be tailored to your application's needs. Whether you're developing for web or mobile, our maps come alive with location data, allowing users to explore, understand, and interact with the geographical context at their fingertips.

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Satellite imagery

Elevate your applications with vivid satellite imagery. Azure Maps brings you closer to the ground with high-resolution images, offering a real-world view that enhances decision-making, planning, and analysis. From urban planning to environmental monitoring, our satellite views provide the comprehensive details you need.

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Customizable UI controls

Azure Maps offers a flexible set of mapping and visualization tools and SDKs, allowing you to design and implement user interfaces that fit your application's unique requirements. From map themes to control widgets, you have the freedom to create an intuitive and engaging mapping experience.

Seamless visualization

Our comprehensive suite of visualization features is designed to integrate seamlessly into your applications, providing dynamic, location-based insights with precision and clarity.

Maps Imagery

Interactive map data visualization has never been simpler. Azure Maps offers map imagery in various vector tiles to help provide a base for your application or data visualization. You can place a variety of geospatial data on your map for anything from vehicle routing to delivery planning.

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Maps Visualization

Bring in public or private data to create compelling mapping and visualization experiences. With the Azure Maps API, you can use data stored in your Azure account to create powerful visualizations, providing clear insights that inform better decision-making.

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Building Interactive Maps

With Azure Maps REST APIs, you can enable data visualization for a variety of applications. Using Azure Maps SDKs, you can embed map data into various surfaces across the web or mobile to create a unique interactive experience for different internal and external users.

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Satellite Imagery

Satellite imagery provides real-world views at scale for better outcomes – whether that’s evaluating roofs for solar panel installation or monitoring vegetation loss. Satellite imagery from Azure can enable mapping and visualization for a range of applications.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Absolutely not. Azure Maps is easy for developers to pick up and use regardless of their prior experience. You can use our extensive documentation base and consult our code samples for support.

  • Azure Maps doesn’t limit daily requests. There can be a limit on the overall queries per second.

  • Yes. Integrating our mapping tools with other Azure services is incredibly easy. You can integrate Azure Maps into your existing Azure subscription or Enterprise agreement.

  • Azure Maps offers localization support for a wide range of languages and regions. Visit our localization support page to learn more.

  • Yes. You can sign up for Azure Maps for free, and you’ll also get $200 in free Azure credit when you sign up.

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Create efficient routes for pedestrians, cars, and trucks with Azure Maps. Detect and convey road closures and traffic restrictions using mapping and visualization tools.

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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