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Azure Maps Adds Support to Private Endpoints (Preview)

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:23:00 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of private endpoint support for Azure Maps, bringing enterprise-grade network isolation and data privacy to your location-aware applications.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Announcing the General Availability of the Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:22:00 Z

It was just last September that we were Introducing the Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API but now we’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API,...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Introducing the Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:26:00 Z

We’re thrilled to unveil the public preview of Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API, a powerful REST service designed to modernize and elevate autocomplete capabilities across Microsoft’s mapping plat...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Azure Maps Traffic APIs Version 1.0 to Be Retired on March 31, 2028

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:30:45 Z

The following Azure Maps Traffic APIs version 1.0 will be retired on March 31, 2028:Get Traffic Flow Segment Get Traffic Flow Tile Get Traffic Incident Detail Get Traffic Incident Tile Get Traffic Incident Viewport Please transition to Azure Maps Traffic
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Azure Maps Route APIs Version 1.0 to Be Retired on March 31, 2028

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:30:35 Z

The following Azure Maps Route APIs version 1.0 will be retired on March 31, 2028: Get Route Directions Get Route Directions Batch Post Route Directions Post Route Direction Batch Post Route Directions Batch Sync Get Route Matrix Post Route Matrix Post Ro
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Snap to Roads is now available for Azure Maps

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:34:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Introducing the Data-Bound Reference Layer in Azure Maps Visual for Power BI

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:03:27 Z

Imagine managing a nationwide sales team and needing to understand how your sales align with factors like population density, competitor locations, or even regional weather patterns. Visualizing this data on a map offers powerful insights—not only showing where your team is excelling but also uncovering new market opportunities. Now, with the Data-Bound Reference Layer feature in the Azure Maps visual for Power BI, you can achieve this level of insight, blending geographic and business data for enriched decision-making. What is the Data-Bound Reference Layer? The Data-Bound Reference Layer is an advanced capability that enables users to bind their data directly to custom reference layers in the Azure Maps visual. Think of it as adding a multi-dimensional view to your Power BI maps. With support for data from multiple sources, such as Shapefiles, GeoJSON, and many more datasets, users can create a fully customizable, data-driven map that renders polygons based on live data. This reference layer acts as a “contextual overlay” on your map. Standard data points in Power BI visuals highlight locations, but the Data-Bound Reference Layer goes further, allowing you to visualize additional insights, such as demographic boundaries, sales territories, or high-priority zones. What used to be a static, single-dimension map can now become an interactive, fully adaptable visualization that changes as your data does, providing real-time insights as conditions evolve. Conditional Formatting: Making Data Pop The power of the Data-Bound Reference Layer extends with conditional formatting, which allows you to style maps dynamically based on your data values. Colors, shapes, and sizes can be tailored to specific data thresholds, making it easier to spot trends, outliers, and areas needing immediate attention. For instance, in disaster response, a map showing hospital densities can use conditional formatting to highlight regions with lower hospital coverage in a distinct color, or
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Power BI Embedded, Azure Maps, Categories: Regions & Datacenters

Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.From now until September 30th, 2025, you can continue to use Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 or V2022-08-01 without disruption. On September 30th, 2025, workloads running Azure Ma
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Retirement: Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps support for Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th 2025
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Azure Maps Creator Service APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview will be retired on September 30, 2025

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Creator Service APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview will be retired on September 30, 2025. From now to September 30, 2025, you can continue to use Azure Maps Creator Service APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview, Creator SDK Indoor Modules, Creator On-Boarding
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Services, Retirements

Azure Maps Data Registry APIs V 2023-06-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Data Registry APIs V 06-01-2023 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.From now to September 30th, 2025, you can continue to use Azure Maps Data Registry API V 2023-06-01 without disruption. On September 30th, 2025—workloads running Azure Maps
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Retirement: Azure Maps Creator Service APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview will be retired on September 30, 2025

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps support for Creator Services APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview will be retired on September 30, 2025
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Services, Retirements

Azure Maps: Reimagining location services with cloud and AI innovation

Wed, 29 May 2024 08:00:00 -0700

Today, we’re announcing the unification of our enterprise maps offerings under Microsoft Azure Maps. This enables our customers to accelerate innovation by leveraging other Microsoft Azure cloud services while retaining many familiar features from Bing Maps for Enterprise.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Introducing the Unified Azure Maps Experience

Tue, 21 May 2024 12:00:37 Z

We are thrilled to announce the unification of Bing Maps for Enterprise (BME) with Azure Maps, marking a significant milestone in our geospatial services at Microsoft. Azure Maps now boasts a robust stack of geospatial offerings, leveraging the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Maps, which also drives Bing Maps (our consumer maps experience). Over the past year, our team has dedicated significant time and effort to combine the strengths of Bing Maps for Enterprise into Azure Maps, enhancing our global quality and coverage. One of the major enhancements is the adoption of vector tiles in Azure Maps for a more responsive map experience. When utilizing Azure Maps in your solutions, you not only leverage the security and compliance advantages of Azure but also benefit from the extensive quality and coverage provided by Microsoft Maps. This unification ensures that users of Azure Maps receive a comprehensive mapping solution backed by the unparalleled strengths of Azure’s infrastructure, Microsoft Maps’ data quality and coverage, and many of the same advanced geospatial capabilities that Bing Maps for Enterprise customers depend on. We are excited about the opportunities this integration presents and look forward to continuing to deliver innovative mapping solutions to our customers worldwide. Azure Maps has many of the same features that BME customers have come to rely on. Nevertheless, this unification also introduces exciting new features to Azure Maps, such as weather APIs, private indoor maps, multiple authentication methods, geolocation service, and robust privacy and compliance benefits. Ready to Make the Move? For customers that are using Bing Maps for Enterprise and are migrating over to Azure Maps, some development will be needed. To help you in this transition period, we have written migration documents for our REST APIs and as well for the Azure Maps web control.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Features, Compliance, Security, Services

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Important Notice: Azure Product Retirement: End of Life Announcement of Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service Versions 31 March 2025

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service will be retired on 31 March 2025.  
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Features

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 – transition to use Azure Maps Web SDK in a web view

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Controls Version 1.xx will be retired on 19 September 2026 – transition to Azure Maps Web SDK Map Controls Version 3.xx

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Controls Version 1.xx will be retired on 19 September 2026
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Azure Maps Data V1 / V2 APIs will be retired on 16 September 2024 – transition to Azure Maps Data Registry APIs

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Data V1 / V2 APIs will be retired on 16 September 2024
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Azure Maps Render V1 APIs will be retired on 17 September 2026 – transition to Azure Maps Render V2 APIs

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Render V1 APIs will be retired on 17 September 2026
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier will be retired on 15 September 2026 -- transition to Azure Maps Gen2 Price Tier

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier will be retired on 15 September 2026 
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Retirements

Filled Map is now available in Power BI Azure Maps Visual

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:31:56 Z

With the latest update of Power BI, the Azure Maps visual now also supports the filled map layer. The filled map layer uses varying degrees of shading, tinting, or different patterns to provide a visual display that quickly shows differences in values across geography or region. Showing these relative differences with shading that ranges from light (less-frequent/lower) to dark (more-frequent/more) is a helpful way to quickly convey information to viewers. The filled map layer helps to answer these questions: Visualize sales or revenue results by country or state. Visualize election results where the color represents the party that won, and the shading represents the margin of victory. Visualize unemployment rates by region, state, or county. Color scheme selection is critical as it may decide or influence how users perceive the message conveyed by the visualization. Color represents the values of the numeric variable in each region of the Map. Colors can be a blending or a single and comparable color, so the target audience can quickly tell the differences. Below is an example of how to design the color scheme to visualize revenue data across the states. The image below uses the color scheme we created and shows an example of a filled map. The Map of America shows each state with a different shade representing sales by state. For example, a viewer can immediately see that California has the most sales, followed by Texas, then Florida. The filled map layer works with categorical data as well; In this example, it is used to visualize the performance of each business unit in different states. When using the filled map layer, you must remember that larger states or areas naturally attract more attention over color. This effect can result in misinterpreted and wrong conclusions. See for more details our documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/power-bi-visual-filled-map
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Power BI Embedded, Azure Maps, Categories:

Geospatial imagery unlocks new cloud computing scenarios on Azure

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800

In the year since Azure Space was announced, Microsoft has focused on extending its Azure Space ecosystem by partnering with industry leaders in the space community to empower customers and partners to achieve more. Today, Microsoft is expanding on its mission to make Azure Space the platform and ecosystem of choice for the space community through a new partnership with Airbus and the general availability of their premium satellite imagery and elevation data in Microsoft’s Azure Maps.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Azure Maps Creator now available in preview

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0700

As enterprises continue to evolve in their digital transformation journey, there is a need for augmenting Azure Maps content with project-specific and private business knowledge of places.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Rain or shine: Azure Maps Weather Services will bring insights to your enterprise

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0700

Azure Maps is proud to share the preview of a new set of Weather Services for Azure customers to integrate into their applications.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Services

Harnessing the power of the Location of Things with Azure Maps

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0700

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the beginning of accessing planetary-scale insights. With the mass adoption of IoT and the very near future explosion of sensors, connectivity, and computing, humanity is on the cusp of a fully connected, intelligent world.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Azure IoT at Build: making IoT solutions easier to develop, more powerful to use

Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 -0700

This week, at our premier developer conference, Microsoft Build in Seattle, we’re thrilled to announce our latest innovations that further simplify IoT and dramatically accelerate time to value for customers and partners.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Categories:

Actuating mobility in the enterprise with new Azure Maps services and SDKs

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0800

The mobility space is at the forefront of the most complex challenges faced by cities and urban areas today. The movement of people and things is as much a driver of opportunity as it is an agent of chaos, aggravating existing challenges of traffic, pollution, and unbalanced livelihoods.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, and more added to Azure Maps

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0700

I’m excited to announce some new capabilities added to Azure Maps. We’re unveiling some highly useful features to further bolster Azure Maps to ensure our enterprise customers have everything they…
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories:

Announcing Azure Maps

Mon, 07 May 2018 00:00:00 -0700

Azure Location Based Services has a new name – Azure Maps; and, as of today, I’m thrilled to announce Azure Maps’ are offered for general availability.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: Services

Microsoft and Esri launch Geospatial AI on Azure

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0800

Integrating geography and location information with AI brings a powerful new dimension to understanding the world around us. This has a wide range of applications in a variety of segments, including…
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Maps, Categories: