docs/content/admin/configuring-settings/configuring-user-applications-for-your-enterprise/configuring-interactive-maps.md

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Configuring interactive maps	You can enable the display of interactive maps in the web interface for {% data variables.location.product_location %}.	Configure interactive maps	People with access to the {% data variables.enterprise.management_console %} can configure interactive maps.	ghes *	how_to	Enterprise	/admin/configuration/configuring-user-applications-for-your-enterprise/configuring-interactive-maps

About interactive maps

You can allow users of {% data variables.location.product_location %} to create interactive maps using GeoJSON or TopoJSON syntax. For more information about creation of interactive maps, see AUTOTITLE.

To enable interactive maps, you must provide authentication credentials for Azure Maps.

{% ifversion ghes < 3.13 %}

Warning

Authentication with Azure Maps using an API token is {% data variables.release-phases.retired %} in {% data variables.product.product_name %} {{ allVersions[currentVersion].currentRelease }}.{% ifversion ghes = 3.10 %}4{% elsif ghes = 3.11 %}1{% endif %} and later. If you upgrade to the latest release of {% data variables.product.product_name %} on an instance already configured to authenticate with an API token, interactive maps will be disabled. You must reconfigure authentication using role-based access control (RBAC) for an application on a Microsoft Entra ID (previously known as Azure AD) tenant. {% data reusables.enterprise.azure-maps-auth-deprecation-link %}

{% endif %}

Prerequisites

{% ifversion ghes < 3.12 %}

The following prerequisites apply if your instance runs {% data variables.product.product_name %} {{ allVersions[currentVersion].currentRelease }}.{% ifversion ghes = 3.10 %}4{% elsif ghes = 3.11 %}1{% endif %} or later.

{% endif %}

• To configure interactive maps for your instance, you must have administrative access to a tenant in Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, contact the administrator for Microsoft resources at your company, or see Quickstart: Create a new tenant in Microsoft Entra ID on Microsoft Learn.

• You must know the tenant ID for your tenant in Entra ID. For more information, see Get subscription and tenant IDs in the Azure portal on Microsoft Learn.

• Your instance must be able to access https://login.microsoftonline.com.

{% ifversion ghes < 3.12 %}

If your instance runs {% ifversion ghes < 3.11 %}a release of {% data variables.product.product_name %} in the {{ allVersions[currentVersion].currentRelease }} series earlier than {% else %}{% data variables.product.product_name %} {% endif %}{{ allVersions[currentVersion].currentRelease }}.{% ifversion ghes = 3.10 %}3{% elsif ghes = 3.11 %}0{% endif %}, you must provide an API token for Azure Maps instead.

{% data reusables.enterprise.azure-maps-auth-warning %}

{% endif %}

Generating credentials for Azure Maps

{% ifversion ghes < 3.12 %}

To configure authentication for Azure Maps using RBAC, your instance must run {% data variables.product.product_name %} {{ allVersions[currentVersion].currentRelease }}.{% ifversion ghes = 3.10 %}4{% elsif ghes = 3.11 %}1{% endif %} or later.

{% endif %}

To generate credentials for Azure Maps, you must create an application for your tenant in Entra ID, provide the application access to an Azure Maps account, and configure role-based access control (RBAC).

1. Register a new application on your Entra ID tenant. For more information, see Quickstart: Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform on Microsoft Learn.

   • When you specify supported account types, select Accounts in this organizational directory only.

2. Add a client secret. For more information, see Quickstart: Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform on Microsoft Learn.

3. Store the value of the secret in a secure location that you can reference when you configure authentication on {% data variables.location.product_location %}. Entra will never display the value after you leave the page.

4. Configure access to the secret by Azure Maps.

   1. While viewing the details for the application you configured on your Entra ID tenant, in the left-hand sidebar, click API permissions.
   2. Click Add a permission.
   3. Click Azure Maps.
   4. Select Delegated permissions.
   5. Under "Select permissions", select "user_impersonation".
   6. To save the permissions, click Add permissions.

5. Sign into an Azure Maps account. If you don't have an account, you can create one. For more information, see the Azure Maps Account website.

6. Configure RBAC for Azure Maps. For more information, see Authentication with Azure Maps and Assign Azure roles using the Azure portal on Microsoft Learn.

   • On your Entra ID tenant, from Access control (IAM), you must assign the role of "Azure Maps Data Reader" to "User, group, or service principal", select the application you created earlier in these instructions, and complete the form.

Enabling interactive maps

After you create an application on your Entra ID tenant and generate a secret for the use of Azure Maps, you can configure interactive maps on {% data variables.location.product_location %}.

{% data reusables.enterprise_site_admin_settings.access-settings %} {% data reusables.enterprise_site_admin_settings.management-console %} {% data reusables.enterprise_management_console.privacy %}

1. To enable interactive maps, select "Enable GeoJSON rendering".

2. Generate a 32-character string to use as a secret to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF). For example, you can access the administrative shell and use openssl on {% data variables.location.product_location %} to generate a string. For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

   openssl rand -hex 32
   

   Store the string in a secure location that you can reference in the next step.

3. {% ifversion ghes > 3.11 %}Below the headings, type or paste{% else %}Enter{% endif %} your authentication details for Azure Maps.

   {%- ifversion ghes < 3.11 %}

   • If your instance runs {% ifversion ghes < 3.11 %}a release of {% data variables.product.product_name %} in the {{ allVersions[currentVersion].currentRelease }} series earlier than {% else %}{% data variables.product.product_name %} {% endif %}{{ allVersions[currentVersion].currentRelease }}.{% ifversion ghes = 3.10 %}3{% elsif ghes = 3.11 %}0{% endif %}, below "Azure Maps API Token", type or paste your token.

     {% data reusables.enterprise.azure-maps-auth-warning %}

   • If your instance runs {% data variables.product.product_name %} {{ allVersions[currentVersion].currentRelease }}.{% ifversion ghes = 3.10 %}4{% elsif ghes = 3.11 %}1{% endif %} or later, below the headings, type or paste the following information. {%- endif %}

     • Optionally, to change the style of rendered maps, under "Basemap ID", type the ID for the style you'd like to use.
     • Under the headings, type or paste your authentication details.

       Value	Description	More information
       Azure Map Client ID	Client ID for your Azure Maps account	Manage authentication in Azure Maps on Microsoft Learn
       Azure App Client ID	Application (client) ID for the application you created on your Entra ID tenant	Create a Microsoft Entra application and service principal that can access resources on Microsoft Learn
       Azure Tenant ID	ID for your tenant on Entra ID	Prerequisites
       Azure App Client Secret	Client secret that you generated for the application on your Entra ID tenant	Generating credentials for Azure Maps
       CSRF Secret	32-character string to prevent CSRF attacks	See previous step.
       {% data reusables.enterprise_management_console.save-settings %}

Disabling interactive maps

{% data reusables.enterprise_site_admin_settings.access-settings %} {% data reusables.enterprise_site_admin_settings.management-console %} {% data reusables.enterprise_management_console.privacy %}

1. To disable interactive maps, deselect "Enable GeoJSON rendering". {% data reusables.enterprise_management_console.save-settings %}