Retail Location Analytics with Azure Maps

Learn how to use Azure Maps (aka.ms/MapsTechCommunity) to analyze a catchment area around a retail store. ShiSh Shridhar, Principal PM in the Azure IoT Team, who spent 15 years on the Microsoft Industry Retail team, will demo how to build a catchment analysis for a café in downtown Seattle. You will see how Azure Maps can pull in data on locations, competitors, traffic, and public transit through Microsoft partnerships with TomTom and Moovit. Azure Maps also ingests data from any data provider including companies that offer human mobility data. You’ll see how a catchment analysis can help a retailer analyze business disruptors, decide where best to open a store, or identify opportunities for expanding business. You’ll walk away from this show understanding why Azure maps is much more than a map rendering platform.
Resources
Azure Maps product page azuremaps.com
Catchment analysis Github code aka.ms/RetailCatchment
Azure Maps on Twitter / azuremaps
Azure Maps on reddit / azuremaps
Azure Maps on IoT Tech Community aka.ms/MapsTechCommunity
#azureiot #iot #azuremaps

[@nicolemwanaidi1488]

Isn’t this the best thing that happened to geospatial data analytics ❤️

[@jimivie]

still using terms like "isochrone" and "geofencing" . GIS really hasn't changed much in the past 10 years outside the integration with mobile & social media. A staggering 16 members on the AzureMaps Reddit. Great Comment "Its not about the MAPS its about the geo-spatial functionality" That's gold. Kind of neat seeing how the catchment area and the POI they contain and how they are generated from the developer side. One question...what does this have to do with #iot

[@joseantcloud]

Official documentation?

[@ShiShSails]

link to Azure Maps documentation: bit.ly/2ksF2hr in addition, the Azure Maps team is also actively engaging through several channels. These include: • Microsoft Tech Community: aka.ms/MapsTechCommunity • Twitter: twitter.com/AzureMaps • Reddit: reddit.com/r/AzureMaps • StackOverflow: bit.ly/33ecjhq