Azure Maps Forum

Question

Azure Maps has an MSDN forum here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home?forum=azurelbs&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc

StackOverflow here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/azure-maps

Answer 1

Also worth mentioning that the Azure Maps routing service supports up to 150 waypoints in a request. Here are some relevant resources: 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/route/getroutedirections

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-manage-account-keys

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/

https://azure.com/maps

Answer 2

The Bing Maps terms of use only allow storing geocode result details. 

I recommend taking a look at Azure Maps. It allows caching of aby data for up to 6 months and storage of results in Azure for a lot longer. Applying your questions to Azure Maps, here are the answers:

1. Yes, up to 6 months if your database is not in Azure. Longer if your database is in Azure.

2. Detailed coverage information can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/geocoding-coverage

3. There are many point of interest categories oyu can filter on. Here is a complete list: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/supported-search-categories

Here are some useful resources on Azure Maps: 

• Main page: https://azure.com/maps
• Documentation: https://aka.ms/AzureMapsDocs
• Samples: https://aka.ms/AzureMapsSamples