The Microsoft MapPoint Web Service is an XML-based Web service with a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) API that allows developers to integrate location-based services, such as maps, driving directions, and proximity searches, into their applications and business processes. The MapPoint Web Service also provides an extensive set of mapping-related content, such as business listings, points-of-interest (POI), and other types of data that can be used within applications.

The MapPoint Web Service is comprised of four fundamental services:

Common Service

The common service contains classes, methods, and properties that are common to the find, route, and render services, or are basic utility functions. The common service methods are:

Find Service

The find service allows you to locate addresses, geographic entities, latitude and longitude coordinate, and points of interest from MapPoint Web Service data, as well as parse addresses and return location information for a specified latitude and longitude coordinate.

Render Service

The render service allows you to render maps of routes and found locations, place pushpins (using the MapPoint Web Service stock set of icons or your icons that we host for your use), set the map size and map view, select points on a map, get location information about points on a map, pan and zoom a rendered map, and create clickable maps.

Route Service

The route service allows you to generate routes, driving directions, and calculated route representations (used to render a highlighted route).

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