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How Bing Maps compares to the new Google Maps pricing

For developers undertaking an audit and test in response to the new Google Maps API pricing structure, read the blog post to help with pricing information. As a Bing Maps Global Distributor we are able to: Ensure you have the best...

News|14 February 2022

How Bing Maps API features compare to Google Maps

For developers researching and testing different map providers for their geo needs in response to the higher costs and more complex charging structure for Google Maps, read the blog that outlines how Bing Maps API features compare to Google Maps....

News|9 February 2022

Azure Maps adds three new Weather Services

Azure Maps Weather Services has added three new services, Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms, to empower developers and companies to expand capabilities even further when it comes to weather data. The Azure Maps Weather Services data comes from...

News|1 February 2022

Microsoft releases more building footprint data sets

Microsoft’s investment in technology across deep learning, computer vision, and AI has been applied to mapping to generate high-quality building footprint datasets. The Bing Maps team has worked to identify map features at scale and produce up-to-date building footprints with...

News|15 January 2022

Bing Maps has 11 new 3D cities to explore

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...

News|24 November 2021

HERE ranked #1 location platform, 2021

OMDIA has ranked HERE the number one location platform ahead of Google for the sixth consecutive time in its 2021 annual report ranking location platforms. HERE has consistently taken the top spot in the OMDIA Location Platform Index since 2018....

News|2 September 2021

Azure Maps Android SDK now generally available

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...

News|6 July 2021

Azure Maps Creator is now in General Availability

Leverage indoor mapping capabilities in your apps In just one year since the public preview launch, Azure Maps Creator is now in GA. At its core, Azure Maps Creator provides an end-to-end solution for private indoor mapping, enabling customers to...

News|7 June 2021

Azure Maps and digital twins

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...

Blog|20 April 2021

Azure Maps Weather Services now generally available

Microsoft has announced that Azure Maps Weather Services are now generally available. Weather Services use data from AccuWeather, the leading worldwide weather service provider. From mission-critical enterprise applications to business-to-consumer facing experiences, Weather Services offer a reliable and easy way...

News|13 April 2021

Azure Maps for IoT and Smart Cities

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...

Blog|13 April 2021

Azure Maps for Azure IoT Services

Don’t think of mapping services as traffic and roads and directions; think of them as a way to represent objects and relationships in the physical world, and geolocation and spatial analysis become extremely relevant to the Internet of Things (IoT)....

Blog|19 March 2021

Microsoft Smart Cities Ontology for Digital Twins

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...

News|1 March 2021

Bing Maps on Azure Marketplace

Were you using Bing Maps on the Azure Marketplace? –>Either with an Enterprise licensing option or Dynamics 365 field services using Bing Maps for geocoding and routing? We are the authorised Bing Maps Distributor for EMEA & APAC and can...

News|1 March 2021

HERE Electric Vehicle Routing

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...

Blog|1 February 2021

Azure Maps Elevation Service

Microsoft has announced new Azure Maps Elevation Service REST APIs now in public preview. Developers will be able to add elevation data to their applications and start supporting scenarios that require ground truth terrain information – everything from determining the...

News|7 December 2020
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