Azure Maps: Best of Breed Content Partnerships

Continuing on the path to provide customers with the best of breed content in a seamless manner, the Azure Maps team is pleased to announce, in partnership with Accuweather, the preview of a new set of Weather Services for Azure customers to integrate into their applications. With the inclusion of Weather Services as part of the Azure Maps API, customers can seamlessly integrate current & forecast weather into their geospatial analytics as well as weather along a route. 

Azure Maps users can now seamlessly access TomTom, Moovit and Accuweather content seamlessly using the Azure Maps API without the overhead of data integration and licensing costs. 

The Azure Maps partnership with TomTom enables customers to access the freshest maps and traffic information. Moovit is an early pioneer of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and the developer of a free public transit app with more than 300 million registered users in over 2,600 cities in 85 countries. Moovit amasses four billion anonymous data points a day to add to the world’s largest repository of transit & ride share data. Integrating Moovit’s transit data into Azure Maps help developers build richer apps using public transit& ride share data. 

The combination of the data sources like real time traffic, real time transit and ride share data as well as real time & forecast weather with the geospatial and location intelligence capabilities of Azure Maps enables customers to solve business challenges that take into account weather, traffic and transit options.

 

We would love to hear interesting stories and examples of how you have used the various content sources with Azure Maps.