# Azure Maps

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-maps/  
**Website:** https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-maps  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Azure Maps provides geospatial APIs for maps, routing, geocoding, traffic, weather, and spatial analysis. The service offers a comprehensive suite of REST APIs to embed location intelligence into applications spanning mobile, web, and IoT scenarios across multiple transport modes.

## Kin Score — 48.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 48.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 48.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 54.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **Azure Maps Route API** — Calculates routes between origin and destination, provides turn-by-turn directions, supports multiple travel modes, traffic-aware routing, route matrices, and route range (isoch...
- **Azure Maps Render API** — Returns map tiles, static images, and vector tiles in multiple styles including satellite, road, and hybrid. Supports raster and vector tile formats, custom imagery, and traffic...
- **Azure Maps Traffic API** — Provides real-time and historical traffic data including traffic flow, incident reports, and traffic tile imagery. Useful for routing, fleet management, and applications requiri...
- **Azure Maps Weather API** — Provides current weather conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, severe weather alerts, weather along a route, and historical weather. Powered by AccuWeather data and global cov...
- **Azure Maps Timezone API** — Returns time zone information for a given coordinate, IANA time zone ID, or Windows time zone ID. Includes current time, daylight saving offsets, and time zone metadata.
- **Azure Maps Geolocation API** — Returns the ISO country code for a supplied IP address, useful for content localization, regulatory compliance, and access control based on user geographic location.
- **Azure Maps Spatial API** — Performs spatial computations such as distance, closest point, point in polygon, geofence evaluation, and great circle distance. Enables location analytics and spatial reasoning...
- **Azure Maps Elevation API** — Returns elevation data in meters above sea level for points, polylines, and bounding boxes. Useful for terrain analysis, topographic visualization, and elevation profile calcula...
- **Azure Maps Creator API** — Indoor maps service for creating, managing, and rendering custom indoor maps. Supports drawing package conversion, dataset and tileset management, feature state, and wayfinding ...
- **Azure Maps Geocoding API** — The Geocoding API from Azure Maps — 2 operation(s) for geocoding.
- **Azure Maps Search API** — The Search API from Azure Maps — 2 operation(s) for search.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Maps Agentic Access** — 4 operations

## Security (2)

- **Microsoft Azure Maps Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Microsoft Azure Maps Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Maps Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Geocoding, Geospatial, Location, Maps, Mobility, Routing, Traffic, Weather

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-maps/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.