Azure Maps Open Source Projects
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Official Microsoft Projects
These are open-source, community-driven initiatives, created and maintained by the Azure Maps team, but are not part of the standard product or service offerings.
Open Web SDK modules
The following is a list of open-source projects that extend the capabilities of the Azure Maps Web SDK.
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Maps Animation module | A rich library of animations for use with the Azure Maps Web SDK. |
| Azure Maps Bring Data Into View Control module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides a control that makes it easy to bring any data loaded on the map into view. |
| Azure Maps Geolocation Control module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides a control that uses the browser's geolocation API to locate the user on the map. |
| Azure Maps Gridded Data Source module | A module for the Azure Maps Web SDK that provides a data source that clusters data points into cells of a grid area. This operation is also known by many names such as tessellations, data binning, or hex bins. |
| Azure Maps Fullscreen Control module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides a control to display the map in fullscreen mode. |
| Azure Maps HTML Marker Layer module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides a layer that renders point data from a data source as HTML elements on the map. |
| Azure Maps Image Exporter module | A module for the Azure Maps Web SDK that generates screenshots of the map. |
| Azure Maps Layer & Legend Control module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides UI controls for dynamically styling layers and displaying legends on the map. |
| Azure Maps Overview Map module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides a control that displays an overview map of the area the main map is focused on. |
| Azure Maps Mapbox Style Importer module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that takes a Mapbox style object and converts it into native Azure Maps classes and adds it to a map instance. |
| Azure Maps Scale Bar Control module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides a control that displays a scale bar relative to the pixel resolution at the center of the map. |
| Azure Maps Selection Control module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides controls for selecting data in a data source using drawing tools or by requesting a route range polygon. |
| Azure Maps Services UI module | A set of web UI controls that wrap the Azure Maps REST services. |
| Azure Maps Spider Clusters module | A module for the Azure Maps Web SDK that adds a visualization to the map which expands clusters into a spiral spider layout. |
| Azure Maps Spyglass Control module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that provides a window that displays a data set inside of a spyglass on the map. |
| Azure Maps Swipe Map module | A module for the Azure Maps Web SDK that allows swiping between two overlapping maps, ideal for comparing two overlapping data sets. |
| Azure Maps Sync Map module | An Azure Maps Web SDK module that synchronizes the cameras of two or more maps. |
Third party map control plugins
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Maps Cesium plugin | A Cesium JS plugin that makes it easy to integrate Azure Maps services such as tile layers and geocoding services. |
| Azure Maps Leaflet plugin | A leaflet JavaScript plugin that makes it easy to overlay tile layers from the Azure Maps tile services. |
| Azure Maps OpenLayers plugin | A OpenLayers JavaScript plugin that makes it easy to overlay tile layers from the Azure Maps tile services. |
Azure Maps Creator
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Maps Creator Tools | Python tools for Azure Maps Creator Tools. |
| am-creator-indoor-data-examples | Examples of indoor data that can be used in Azure Maps creator. |
Bots
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Bot Framework - Point of Interest skill | The Point of Interest Skill provides POI related capabilities to a Virtual Assistant using Azure Maps with Azure Bot Service and Bot Framework. |
| BotBuilder Location | An open-source location picker control for Microsoft Bot Framework powered by Bing Maps REST services. |
Samples
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Maps Code Samples | A collection of code samples for using Azure Maps in web based apps. |
| Azure Maps Gov Cloud Code Samples | A collection of code samples for using Azure Maps through Azure Government Cloud. |
| Azure Maps & Azure Active Directory Samples | A collection of samples that show how to use Azure Active Directory with Azure Maps. |
| Azure Maps Jupyter Notebook samples | A collection of python samples using the Azure Maps REST services. |
| Azure Maps .NET UWP IoT Remote Control | This is a sample application which shows how to build a remotely controlled map using Azure Maps and IoT hub services. |
| Implement IoT spatial analytics using Azure Maps | Tracking and capturing relevant events that occur in space and time is a common IoT scenario. |
Tools and resources
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Maps Docs | Source for all Azure Location Based Services documentation. |
Related Community Projects
These are open-source, community-driven initiatives, some of which the Azure Maps team contributes to, but are not part of the standard product or service offerings.
Angular
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ng Azure Maps | An Angular 10 Azure Maps component. |
| Angular Azure Maps | An Angular 6 Azure Maps component. |
| Angular Azure Map Wrapper | Angular 6.0+ Azure Map Samples. |
Blazor
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| AzureMapsControl.Components | An Azure Maps Blazor component. WIP of azure-maps-controls Razor Components. |
Flutter
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Flutter_map | Use Azure Maps with the flutter UI toolkit. |
Internet of Things (IoT)
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| LiveMaps | Sample application to provide live indoor maps visualization of IoT data on top of Azure Maps using Azure Maps Creator |
| IoT Hub to Azure Maps geofence | Track and capture relevant events that occur in space and time using Azure Maps spatial analytics services. |
| Azure IoT Real-time asset tracking workshop | A step by step workshop for create a real-time device asset tracking application. |
PowerApps PCF components
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Maps PowerApps PCF Search Control component | A PowerApps component that provides a search bar control powered by Azure Maps. |
| Azure Maps PowerApps PCF component | A PowerApps PCF control that displays a dataset as pins on Azure Map. |
| Azure Maps PowerApps PCF spider cluster control | A PowerApps PCF control for displaying points as clusters that expand into a spider cluster layout. Video |
Python
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Maps for Retail, Jupyter Notebooks | A colleciton of Python samples using Azure Maps in retail scenarios. |
| Azure Maps Python Sample | Sample code for calling Azure Maps from Python. |
Samples
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Region Map | An Interactive Microsoft Azure Regions Map |
| Azure Maps Bus Demo | Animating an electric bus ride. |
| Azure Maps Geofence Demo | Demo code for creating and querying a geofence. |
| Coronavirus COVID-19 Dashboard | A dashboard showing Covid-19 stats over time on a map. |
| Real-time flight map with Azure functions, CosmosDB and SignalR | Visualize real-time data on Azure Maps. |
| Pubs of London | A pub finder app using Azure Maps. |
| San Francisco Food Truck Explorer | A prototype application written in TypeScript and React.js to easily visualize in Microsoft Azure Maps all the current active food trucks in the city of San Francisco, CA. |
| Pollution Tracker | Azure Maps based pollution tracker. |
| azuremapswebapp | This webapp uses Azure Maps to visualize spatial data on an interactive map on a webpage. (Flask/Python, Azure Maps JavaScript API, WAQI API) |
Tools and extensions
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| A-Maps | A QGIS plugin for the Azure Maps REST services. |
| AirMap Azure Maps plugin | Azure Maps JS plugin to view and interact with AirMap's Contextual Airspace Rules |
| AzMapOps | Powershell module for working with the Azure Maps API. |
| Azure Maps GeoJSON Admin Portal | A portal for managing GeoJSON data with the Azure Maps Data Services. |
| azure-maps-h3 | Azure Maps sample for creating H3 Mapbox layers using the Mapbox instance in Azure Maps. |
| Azure Maps .NET REST Client | .NET 5 library to access Azure Maps REST Services |
| PHP Azure Maps Provider | A PHP Azure Maps Geocoder Provider. |
React
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Maps React Component | A react wrapper for the Azure Maps control. |
Xamarin
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| XaMaps | Xamarin + Azure Maps |
| XFAzureMapTrials | Use Azure Maps Creator in Xamarin.Forms. |
Vue.js
| Project Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Vue Azure Maps | Integrate Azure Maps in your Vue application |