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Azure Maps for Windows 10

Azure Maps for Windows 10

Azure Maps partner with TomTom and Moovit to provide world-class location and mobility information for their customers. Azure Maps provide various way for developers to build their Azure Maps based solutions via REST APIs, Web SDK and Android SDK. Unfortunately, we don’t have Azure Maps SDK for Universal Windows Platform. With the support of REST APIs, we still can build awesome maps app for Windows 10 which based on Azure Maps services. To prove the concept, I have created a…

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An update to Azure Maps Lite for UWP

An update to Azure Maps Lite for UWP

Azure Maps Lite for UWP SDK was released more than a year ago. Over the year, there is new capabilities expose thought REST APIs and it’s time to update this SDK. You can install the latest Azure Maps Lite SDK for UWP thru nuget CLI PM> Install-Package AzureMapsLite -Version 1.0.0 What’s NEW for this release? Azure Maps Lite SDK now support x86, x64, ARM, ARM64.The initial release only support x86 platform, this create the problem for supporting other platforms. With these…

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Azure Maps Lite for UWP

Azure Maps Lite for UWP

While we are still waiting for the official Azure Maps SDK for Universal Windows Platform, the eager me take it into my own hand. I’m going to create a lite version of the SDK for Azure Maps! Before you can use this Azure Maps Lite SDK for UWP, you have to obtain an valid Azure Maps account. To do so, please create Azure Maps account from Azure Portal. Installing Azure Maps Lite via NuGet Current Azure Maps Lite SDK is version…

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Azure Maps vs Bing Maps

Azure Maps vs Bing Maps

Azure Maps is one of the latest Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offer by Microsoft Azure. This services was under public preview since November 2017 under the name of Azure Location Based Services, and it officially General Available (GA) on May 8, 2018. Regardless it called Azure Maps or Azure Location Based Services, the immediate response from developers were, what is the differences between Azure Maps compare to Bing Maps services? Since both of them are the products from Microsoft, it worth we…

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