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The Microsoft Maps team partners with world builders from the video game industry to create experiences like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Microsoft takes petabytes of high-definition aerial imagery from specialised cameras and feeds them into a specialised Azure pipeline to...

Microsoft has announced the Azure Maps Android SDK is now generally available. The SDK has key updates that are aligned with the core feature set to ensure a consistent developer experience. Some of the key improvements added to this update...

Maps can help you understand the data from sensors more easily by seeing them in context; they also turn out to the be logical way to organise and manage ontologies and hierarchies of smart devices into a smart building. The...

Understanding and operating an environment as complex and interdependent as a city needs a lot of data and maps are a fundamental tool for making sense of that for planning and operations. Azure Digital Twins Digital Twins and sensors can...

Following the general availability of the Azure Digital Twins platform, Microsoft has announced that the open source GitHub repository of Smart Cities ontology for Azure Digital Twins is available to the ecosystem. The concept of digital twins – a digital...

HERE has updated their Routing API with the addition of powerful and versatile electric vehicle (EV) routing. This new feature provides rich support for EV fleet management. The update goes way beyond just mapping charging points: it can be configured with...

An introduction to Azure Maps Weather Services, Radar, and Infrared Tile Overlays In an earlier blog post we looked Azure Maps and Power BI. One of the concepts that was touched on was the concept of tile layers and how...