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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
- Split by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Thursday, July 11, 2019 8:43 PM New topic
Thursday, July 11, 2019 5:35 PM
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Since you are using Azure, why not use Azure Maps instead. Its Microsoft's newer enterprise mapping platform which is a part of Azure. Azure Maps has higher free limits which exceed what you get with the "Public Website Transactions Level 2" with Bing Maps.
Here are some useful resources:
- Main site: https://azure.com/maps
- Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/
- Code Sample Gallery: https://aka.ms/AzureMapsSamples
- Proposed as answer by Ricky_Brundritt Saturday, December 29, 2018 12:27 AM
- Split by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:31 PM Not Bing Maps
- Merged by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:34 AM Azure Maps
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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/
- Proposed as answer by Ricky_Brundritt Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:16 PM
- Split by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:43 PM New topic
- Merged by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:47 PM Same topic
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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
- Proposed as answer by Ricky_Brundritt Friday, October 18, 2019 4:15 AM
- Split by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Friday, October 18, 2019 7:48 PM Not Bing Maps
- Merged by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Friday, October 18, 2019 7:52 PM Azure Maps
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You might want to take a look at Azure Maps. It provides simple extruded building models in its platform. These are exposed as part of their vector tile layers for their base maps. You can check these out in this sample: https://azuremapscodesamples.azurewebsites.net/index.html?sample=Map%20style%20options Zoom in close to a major city and check the "show building models" button. You can use the right mouse button to rotate and pitch the map view.
Vector tiles are a newer map data format which makes it easy to retrieve base map data globally at different resolutions (zoom levels). The building models consist of some building footprint data combined with height data. Some models are more detailed than others. There is a lot more improvements in the works for this data set as well, so it will only be getting better in the near future.
I just checked, there is building data in Amsterdam. If you don't see it, try zooming in closer. At the moment you have to be really close for them to load (something we are working on).
- Edited by Ricky_Brundritt Tuesday, December 10, 2019 1:33 AM
- Split by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:16 PM Not Bing Maps
- Merged by IoTGirlMicrosoft employee Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:22 PM Azure Maps
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 1:31 AM