Microsoft Traffic - Bing Maps - Azure Maps

The Lock Screen on my Windows PC has started showing notifications with weather, air quality, stock information and today, Traffic status. Clicking on the notification led me to the Bing Maps Traffic page.
I was pleasantly surprised to see a new service name - Microsoft Traffic and within the Traffic portal, the Insights tab contained useful local information that seemed better than what's on Google Maps.

I was curious about how this is built and after exploring a bit, I found that there are Bing API endpoints that are available for anyone interested in customizing this traffic information for their own applications. 

Going by the documentation, the geographic coverage for India is relatively better than for most countries with coverage for Road Data/Routing, Traffic & Geocoding though not for Truck Routing.


Azure Maps is expected to bring many of the Azure security and compliance features that are important to enterprise customers. 

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