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Johannes_Kebeck
‎03-19-2026 04:30 PM

Maps in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)

If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings. 

Everything happens somewhere

When we envisioned Maps in Microsoft Fabric, our goal was to empower any data citizen to analyze data in time and space without any specialized knowledge. Introduced in preview at FabCon Europe 2025, it has since been used by customers across industries creating and sharing map-centric applications. Additional features were added at Ignite 2025, and this week at FabCon Atlanta, Maps in Microsoft Fabric is generally available - along with new capabilities that expand how geospatial data can be modeled, visualized, and operationalized at any scale.

Introducing support for Ontology

From the beginning, Maps in Fabric supported high-velocity data in Eventhouse and large quantities of data in Lakehouse. With the emergence of Ontology in Fabric IQ, Maps and AI agents can now reason over a business in terms of entities and relationships - not just tables and schemas. These entities can have locations, areas, or move along a path so that agents can include time and space in their reasoning.

Now, Maps in Fabric supports both static and time series entities defined in Fabric Ontology. This means you can model real-world concepts (e.g., venues, cities, routes, parking areas, or buses) once in your ontology and use them across agents and Maps.

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Figure: Maps in Fabric connected to Ontology

Connect to your data wherever it lives

Building on the support for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) in OneLake which we announced at Ignite 2025, you can now also connect to imagery, environmental data, vegetation index and much more in Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro as well as standards‑based raster services such as WMS and WMTS.

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Figure: Maps in Fabric connected to WMS, WMTS services and Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro

Schedule your data refresh

Vector tiles optimize large amounts of data for consumption in your browser. In production scenarios keeping those tile sets up to data becomes critical and with the new scheduler you define the layers once and refresh the tiles as often as your data requires it. You need daily updates of your construction projects or a refresh of facilities, parking and hospitality for your event every five minutes? Maps in Fabric has you covered.

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Figure: Schedule tile set refresh in Maps in Fabric

Additional improvements

We made several improvements to the user experience based on your feedback:
  • Data-driven styling speeds up the design of layers.
  • Filter within a layer allows you to find the needle in the haystack and focus on what matters.
  • Built-in and custom icons enable clearer storytelling and faster interpretation.
For Eventhouse as a data source, we now support functions and materialized views to enable more complex logic including spatial joins and aggregations.

From global to local

Imagine a global sports event where the following capabilities come together:
  • A shared ontology defines teams, matches, venues, cities, transport routes and vehicles, parking, fan zones, hospitality, and support services.
  • Real-time operational signals stream into KQL Databases for crowd flow, transit status, and parking occupancy.
  • Up-to-date imagery from Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro provide visibility into construction progress during preparation.
  • Scheduled tile sets keep the map fresh and responsive, even under peak load.
  • Purposeful visual cues through custom icons and styling direct operators to what needs attention most.
With Maps in Fabric, anyone can build and share map-centric applications.

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1. Density of fans in front of a football stadium visualized as heatmap.
2. Overlay of drone imagery from a connection to Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro.
3. Overlay of real-time weather from a Web Map Tile Service Connection connection to Azure Maps.
4. Available parking space represented as extruded polygons.
5. Stadium Seats color coded by availability for the next game.
6. Overlay of color codes public transport routes and real-time bus locations" />

Figure: Real-Time insights with Maps in Fabric

Get started

Explore Maps in Microsoft Fabric to support your production workloads - from global events to everyday operations.

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