Microsoft cloud computing platform “Azure” has become one of the core offerings of Microsoft. In this blog post, I am going to elaborate how to perform address validation using Azure Maps. Azure Maps has many offerings like Search, Maps, Geocoding, Traffic, Routing & Time Zones. We are going to use the Azure Maps Search to validate an address entered within an PowerApp.
The initial step is to create the Azure Map service from Azure portal. Login into Azure Portal I.e., https://portal.azure.com either using trail account or an azure account. Search for “Azure Maps Accounts”
Select the valid Subscription & Resource Group. By default, the “S0” pricing tier is selected. For more details please refer to the azure pricing details Azure-Maps Pricing. Click “Create” to create the mapping services. It may take few minutes for the Azure services to be hosted.
Once the Azure Maps service is successfully provisioned, lets perform a quick check of the address search using the Location API’s. We need the subscription key to perform this search. Click on the Keys and copy the Primary Key
We are going to use Fuzzy Search as part of this example so as defined in the Microsoft Docs Site (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-search-for-address) construct the URL as
| Param | Description | Value |
| api-version | Version of the location services | 1.0 |
| subscription-key | The primary key of the service from azure | <<key>> |
| countrySet | Filter to target specific country. | AUS |
| typeahead | If the typeahead flag is set, the query will be interpreted as a partial input and the search will enter predictive mode | TRUE |
| Query | A comma separated string of address or latitude followed by longitude |
For more details please refer Get Search Fuzzy link.
If successful, it should return list of probable address matches in JSON format as
We have the Azure Maps Search API ready to validate/search addresses. As part of the Part 2 blog post we are going to leverage this service with in an PowerApp to perform a quick address validation.
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