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Why Customers Choose Microsoft Mapping
Data privacy
Users’ data will not be shared with third parties.
24/7 Support
Account, licensing, technical, and critical support.
Developer friendly
Easy-to-use, with documentation, code samples, developer forum.
Full Microsoft integration
PowerBI, Dynamics 365, Visual Studio, SQL Server, PowerApps and more.
Global coverage
100+ languages, 200+ countries including China and Japan.
Fleet and Logistics APIs
Build feature-rich geolocation applications.
For fleet management services, multi-route applications, fleet tracking, route optimisation, or geocoding, Microsoft Bing Maps provides developers with maps APIs for location intelligence and enterprise mapping solutions.
Truck Routing API
Bing Maps’ Truck Routing API tailors routes to your fleet’s needs, avoiding delays, reroutes, and obstructions. Fleet managers can automate processes and create efficient routes using this sophisticated API. Additionally, fleet tracking and multi-route planning help logistics providers reduce costs by avoiding closed and congested roadways.
Snap to Road API
The Snap to Road API takes GPS longitude and latitude data points and returns a list of objects that are converted and snapped to the nearest roads on a map. Fleet managers can automate route creation and enhance value with this API. It supports multiple transport methods and multi-route planning, considering local speed limits to visualize relevant paths.
Distance Matrix API
A routing solution that calculates the best route possible based on a matrix of distance and travel time for multiple destinations. The routing API optimises across specific parameters including method of transportation such as driving, walking, or public transit, start and end time, and historical traffic. Distance Matrix helps solve the travelling salesman challenge by effective route planning, saving time, money and resources. Distance Matrix use cases include:
- Supports up to 10 agents and 100 waypoints.
- Taxi/car service application: see the driver’s location and estimated time of arrival.
- Retail: optimise deliveries from distribution centres to retail locations.
- Field services: route the closest technician to the client for service.
Maps SDK for Android and iOS
SDKs for Android and iOS to integrate fully featured map controls into mobile applications including positioning, 3D mapping (3D Native support from Windows UWP control) and voice guided turn by turn navigation, with a consistent look and feel across web, Windows, and mobile.
You can add to both road and aerial views with worldwide 3D elevation data employing the Digital Elevation Model. You can also add content to road maps with symbolic 3D building. If 3D is not necessary for your scenario, the SDK supports a standard Web Mercator projection.
Isochrone API
Calculate the area that can be travelled to within a specified distance or time and visualise that area on a map. The isochrone maps provide accurate polygon shapes with customisable parameters such as arrival or departure times, predicted traffic, and user’s location. The Isochrone API optimises travel times for modes of transportation, including walking, driving, and public transit. Isochrone maps use cases include:
- Stolen vehicle recovery: Use a time-based search to outline how far the vehicle could have travelled.
- Real Estate: determine potential locations near workplace, schools, amenities.
- Zoning and transport planning: use criteria such as population and amenity locations to determine the area for vehicle service
Multi-Itinerary Optimization (MIO) API
The MIO API is powerful routing API that automates the process of building itineraries for multiple agents and optimises their routes across multiple destinations. The API calculates route optimisation for multiple agents, shifts, routes, traffic conditions, service time windows, and more, to save travel time and fuel costs.
Location Intelligence
Visualise geospatial data on a custom Bing Map.
Build contextually relevant geolocation applications to provide location intelligence to better analyse, plan, and monitor business processes and performance.
Building Footprints
The most up-to-date building footprint data covering global regions.
Microsoft has made significant investments in deep learning, computer vision and AI that have been applied to mapping to generate high-quality building footprint data at scale.
The Bing Maps team has a goal to increase the coverage of building footprints available as open data for OpenStreetMap and humanitarian efforts. Millions of worldwide building footprints datasets are now freely available for download and use under applicable licence.
Open data regions currently available:
- North America: United States, Canada
- South America
- Africa: Uganda and Tanzania, Nigeria and Kenya
- Australia
Geocoding
Geocoding converts a street address or location into a set of geographic co-ordinates. Bing Maps provides three different types of geocoding: address geocoding, reverse geocoding, batch geocoding. Bing Maps Geocoding coverage is available in more than 100 countries.
- Reverse Geocoding allows you to retrieve the nearest address for given longitude and latitude coordinates.
- Batch Geocoding saves time and increases efficiency.
Bing Maps Rooftop offers the highest level of geocoding accuracy support. Instead of interpolated results, addresses are resolved to the latitude/longitude co-ordinate at the centre of the address parcel (property boundary) with high precision post code.
Local Search API
Benefit from the additional location intelligence of local search to get actionable insight into businesses and entities nearby.
The Bing Maps Local Search API is a simple-to-use REST API that provides insights into businesses and entities that can be reached by car, on foot, or public transit. Query for businesses by name, category or free text; score the attractiveness of a location based on the proximity to points of interest.
Autosuggest API
The Autosuggest API is used to return a list of suggested entities based on a user’s partial query. The service can return three possible entity types: Addresses (including roads), points of interest, and Businesses, which are currently only available in the U.S. A maximum of ten autosuggested entities can be returned per request, and the returned entities can be delimited by country and culture.
Time Zone API
Represent global time zones with the Windows and IANA Time Zone standards, which provide a well-defined structure for representing global time zones. It can get complicated when different regions change the way they apply daylight saving time. The Bing Maps Time Zone API makes it easy to find a time zone and daylight savings time for a location by query or latitude and longitude co-ordinates. It can also convert datetime stamps to local time zones with daylight savings time information or by retrieving a Time Zone ID.
Locations API
Use high-powered geocoding and reverse geocoding with the Locations API.
Find a location based on co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) and other values like postal code, address, and query string.
For a reverse geocoding service that gives you insightful information about a specified location use the Location Recognition API. When given location co-ordinates (latitude/ longitude), the Bing Maps Location Recognition API returns a comprehensive description of the location along with points of interest.
See Bing Maps in Action
Routing for deliveries
Automate schedules for multiple field teams and optimise their routes across multiple destinations for improved performance including last mile.
Asset tracking
Track and monitor your fleet of vehicles, food delivery services, shipping containers, or mobile workforce in real time on a map to improve performance and customer service.
Retail and eCommerce
Identify new retail locations based on demographics, warehouse and public transport locations. eCommerce sites use store locators, and validate customer addresses with geocoding.
Location Intelligence
Visualise sales results and other KPIs by location and analyse demographics, competitor analysis, and sales trends. Use custom thematic maps to build contextually relevant applications.
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Why Grey Matter?
- As the Global Microsoft Bing Maps authorised distributor, you have access to the world's most knowledgeable mapping team outside of Microsoft.
- Our experienced team will ensure you have the best licensing advice to remain compliant.
- We can provide you with guidance on best practice so you are charged for only what you need.
- Your technical questions can be promptly answered via our direct access to Microsoft.
- Our services team can consult on your infrastructure, modernisation and security.
- You can start building your solution with a Bing Maps key, get in touch with us to help set you up.
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