Render static map with satellite view using coordinates
Unfortunately Azure maps does not have an easy solution to render a map image with a satellite view. All we need is to have the satellite tiles as an option for the map layer to draw our pins and shapes onto as a static image, without using a complex library to make all the calculations to stitch together satellite tiles and rasterize it in the back-end. Then we can cache and provide that image in static resources (email, for example).
Google maps already has this ability, and it would be a shame if we have to replace our azure maps for our client because it is missing this one feature!
Mark
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Mike Hamsa
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PS - since you guys are deprecating Bing Maps and forcing everyone to move to Azure Maps, I'd like to see a similar API so we can make the transition a little easier.
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Mike Hamsa
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Agreed. The way our application is setup we're using static map requests to get images to display and the Azure Maps API makes is very difficult to use Satellite images for a defined bounding box with a defined image size. This creates a lot of additional work. I would like to see something similar to Bing Maps where we can use static maps to simply request a satellite, road, or hybrid map image using a bounding box along with a image height and width.
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Outi Nyman
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Hi Mark. To confirm, which Azure Maps API(s) you prefer to call? Also, have you considered to use our web map control?
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Anonymous
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Hi,
for me and my maps it is important to be able to use my own mapstyles.
If it is possible to adjust the colors like googlemaps (https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/),
I would also switch to azure. -
Anonymous
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Rawabi Almoammar
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When satellite updated ?? Every month?
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rbrundritt
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Satellite/Aerial imagery is currently available through the Azure Maps web control. We are working on also exposing this through our REST render and tile services.
Map styling is something we would like to expose but is a very large work item so it will take time before we are able to expose this across our platform.
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rbrundritt
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Azure Maps exposes Aerial imagery (imagery captured by planes) when the map is in satellite mode and is zoomed in. When in the same map mode, when zoomed out a lot, it uses imagery captured by satellites. Currently this is only available in the Azure Maps web map control, but work it being done to expose this through the REST Render services as well.
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Are you referring to the satellite images? You can get satellite image tiles via map imagery tile API
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/render/getmapimagerytilepreview
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Anonymous
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Can you confirm that aerial view is just available thru embedded control? We have been trying to adquire aerial views thru API without success.
Thanks in advance.
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Daniel F
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I'm excited to see a holistic solution for mapping come out of Azure. Being able to get different types of map tiles out of the renderer (such as Topographic and Satellite) as well as request the renderer style the map (similar to Google maps) would be a total home run for me and allow me to move my mapping workloads over.
