Azure Location Based Services (preview) provides developers from all industries, powerful geospatial capabilities, packed with fresh mapping data necessary to provide geographic context to web and mobile applications.
Azure Locaiton Based Services provides the ability to:
- Give context to your data for increased productivity
- Refresh your apps and devices with dynamic information
- Track more than geographic coordinates
- Use Azure Location Based Services with familiar tools and services
This service is an Azure One API compliant set of REST APIs, accompanied with a web-based JavaScript control to make development easy, flexible, and portable across multiple mediums.
The press has written quite a bit about it. Tom Tom, Delphi, and other location-oriented manufacturers have adopted it:
- Fortune- ‘Microsoft’s next big challenge- Location, location, location’
- Track field assets and create location-aware apps with Azure Location Based Services
- Microsoft builds and integrates Azure Location Based Services directly into the cloud to make ci
- ZDNet- ‘Microsoft launches public preview of Azure Location Based Services with TomTom’
- Microsoft launches Azure Location Based Services for geospatial needs across industries
For more information, visit the product page:
- Infographic: Location is at the Heart of Everything
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=863874&clcid=0x409 - SITE: Azure Location Based Services
http://www.azure.com/locationbasedservices
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