Add geospatial controls to your canvas apps

Add interactive maps with dynamic routing and address lookup to your canvas apps using geospatial controls.

Use the following prebuilt controls for geospatial applications:

• Interactive map
• Address input

The map control runs with limited features available by default. You can enable additional map control features and support for the address input control by turning on full support in the Power Platform admin center. Refer to the table at the bottom of the page for more details on data usage in limited and full support.

Prerequisites for full support

Before you can use geospatial features in your apps, your Power Platform administrator has a couple of tasks to complete:

1. Enable geospatial features in the Power Platform admin center for the environment you intend to use. The geospatial features require their own terms of service, which your admin must review and agree to.
2. Make sure the geospatial controls aren't blocked by the environment's data loss prevention policies.

Enable geospatial features for the environment

If you don't have administrative access to the Power Platform admin center, ask your admin to enable geospatial features for you. You can similarly follow these steps to disable geospatial features.

1. Open the Power Platform admin center.

2. On the Environments tab, select the environment you want to use for your apps, and then select Settings.

   

3. Expand Product, and then select Features.

   

4. Under Map and address services, turn on the Full toggle. You can use the toggles in this section to similarly turn on and off limited support as well.

   

5. Read the terms of service. Select I agree to the terms of service, and then select Enable.

   Important

   The terms of service must be agreed to before you can use all geospatial features in your apps.

   Mapping capabilities are provided by a third party. Microsoft shares address and location queries, but not customer or user names, with the provider. Requests are sent securely over HTTPS or aren't exposed to the public Internet.

6. Select Save.

Review the environment's data loss prevention policies

Geospatial controls use the Spatial Services connector to fetch map tiles and to look up and geocode addresses. Your Power Platform admin must make sure data loss prevention policies that apply to that connector don’t conflict with the policies that affect the controls. Learn more about data loss prevention policies for Power Platform.

Privacy and security considerations

• Power Apps doesn’t link search queries to any user or tenant when shared with TomTom, and the shared search queries can’t be used to identify individuals or tenants.

• Azure Maps doesn't store the request information sent by you. For more information about Azure Maps compliance, see Azure global compliance

• Requests sent between TomTom and Azure Maps are not exposed over the public Internet.

• Requests sent between apps you create with the geospatial controls and Azure Maps are sent over HTTPS.

• The following table describes the user data that Power Apps sends to Azure Maps, Bing Maps, and TomTom on full support:

  Control	Feature	Data	Purpose	Sent to Azure Maps	Sent to Bing Maps	Sent to TomTom	User identifiers or tracking data sent	Enabled in Full Support	Enabled in Limited Support
  Map	Show map tiles	Coordinates in and around the map view	To show the map tiles in the map view.	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
  Map	Show pins and shapes from coordinates	Pin and shape coordinates	Feature does not require sending coordinate data.	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
  Map	Show pins and route waypoints	Pins and route waypoint addresses	To translate addresses to latitude/longitude coordinates, and show them on the map.	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
  Map	Show routes	Route waypoint coordinates	To calculate routes between waypoints.	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
  Address Input	Address Search	Address search query string	To show address search results.	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
  Address Input	Address Search	Current device location	To bias address search results around the device location.	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No

Next steps

Add the controls to your apps:

• Visualize and interpret location data with the Interactive map control.
• See dynamic address suggestions as you type with the Address input control.

See also

Create an app that uses the address input and map controls