Public Data Sources

Note

Bing Maps for Enterprise service retirement

Bing Maps for Enterprise is deprecated and will be retired. Free (Basic) account customers can continue to use Bing Maps for Enterprise services until June 30th, 2025. Enterprise account customers can continue to use Bing Maps for Enterprise services until June 30th, 2028. To avoid service disruptions, all implementations using Bing Maps for Enterprise REST APIs and SDKs will need to be updated to use Azure Maps by the retirement date that applies to your Bing Maps for Enterprise account type.

Azure Maps is Microsoft's next-generation maps and geospatial services for developers. Azure Maps has many of the same features as Bing Maps for Enterprise, and more. To get started with Azure Maps, create a free Azure subscription and an Azure Maps account. For more information about azure Maps, see Azure Maps Documentation. For migration guidance, see Bing Maps Migration Overview.

The Bing Spatial Data Services provide the following public data sources for your use. You can query these data sources with any Bing Maps Key.

You can also make any data source associated with your Bing Maps Account public. For more information, see Make a Data Source Public.

Data Source	Description
PointsOfInterest Data Source	This data source contains points of interest worldwide.
FourthCoffeeSample Data Source	This data source contains sample data. The examples provided in the Query API documentation use this data source.
Traffic Incident Data Source	This data source contains traffic incident data that you can use to query for traffic incidents in an area by using the Query by Area API.
2010 US Census Data Sources	These data sources contain a subset of 2010 US Census data sourced from the US Census Bureau.

For the list of entity type IDs that you can query for the PointsOfInterest data source, see POI Entity Types.