What you gain with Icon Map
- Custom backgrounds: your own raster/vector tiles, bespoke images, WMS and terrain
for full brand and cartographic control.
- Rich data layers: images, vector tiles, H3 hexagons, 3D polygons/bars, PMTiles and
more—mix multiple types on one map.
- Powerful selection & filtering: lasso, circle, reference polygons, viewport
filtering and the Filter API to handle large selections.
- Tight Power BI integration: drill‑down, report page tooltips, conditional
formatting, large datasets and Publish to Web.
Column headers below use text only (no logos), and the square indicators show
availability. Where capability varies by item type, we mark it as partial.
✓ Available
✓ Partial
Planned
Background Mapping
|
Azure Maps |
Esri ArcGIS |
Icon Map Pro |
Icon Map Slicer |
| Provides background mapping without additional fee |
✓ |
✓ |
✓
|
✓
|
| Third‑party integration for background maps (Google, Azure, ArcGIS, Mapbox, etc)
|
—
|
—
|
✓
|
— |
| Bespoke image background |
— |
— |
✓ |
- |
| Custom XYZ raster tiles |
— |
— |
✓ |
|
| Custom vector tiles |
— |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
| WMS |
— |
— |
✓ |
|
| 3D terrain |
— |
— |
|
✓ |
Notes: Third‑party backgrounds and bespoke images allow full brand and cartographic
control. 3D terrain available in Slicer; Pro supports terrain via 3D overlays.
Overlays / Reference Layers
|
Azure Maps |
Esri ArcGIS |
Icon Map Pro |
Icon Map Slicer |
| Multi‑language map labels (appear over data) |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Daylight terminator |
— |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
| Weather overlays |
|
|
✓ |
— |
| Traffic overlays |
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
| Custom raster XYZ layer |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Support for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Custom styled and filterable vector layer |
|
|
|
✓ |
| WMS layer |
|
|
✓ |
|
| GeoJSON/KML/ESRI Shapefile (uploaded or URL) |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
| CSV/WKT/WKT (uploaded file or URL) |
|
|
|
|
| ESRI ArcGIS Feature layer |
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Display/hide layers by zoom level |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Display/hide layers through DAX expressions / slicers |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
Data Layers
|
Azure Maps |
Esri ArcGIS |
Icon Map Pro |
Icon Map Slicer |
| Circles |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Clustered circles |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Images |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Clustered images |
|
|
✓ |
|
| Lines – straight |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Lines – curved / shortest path |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Lines – flow |
|
|
|
✓ |
| Vector tiles incl. Mapbox tilesets; PMTiles |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Shapes from dataset (WKT & GeoJSON features) |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Shapes from uploaded files (Shapefile, KML, GeoJSON) |
✓1 |
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Heatmap |
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
| ESRI ArcGIS Feature Layer |
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
| H3 hexagons |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
| 3D bars |
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
| Pie charts |
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
| Extrude polygons in 3D |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
| Display multiple data layer types on same map |
✓2 |
|
✓ |
✓ |
Selection Features
|
Azure Maps |
Esri ArcGIS |
Icon Map Pro |
Icon Map Slicer |
| Select by clicking |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Lasso select |
✓1 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Circle radius select |
✓12 |
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Select within reference polygon |
|
|
|
✓ |
| Select based on intersection between data items |
|
|
|
✓ |
| Filter other visuals based on map zoom & location |
|
|
|
✓ |
| Uses Filter API to select large numbers of items |
|
|
|
✓ |
| Cross‑filter other visuals |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Cross‑filter from other visuals |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Cross‑highlight other visuals |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Cross‑highlight from other visuals |
|
|
✓ |
|
Map Features
|
Azure Maps |
Esri ArcGIS |
Icon Map Pro |
Icon Map Slicer |
| Data labels from category field |
◐ |
✓ |
✓ |
◐ |
| Dynamic data labels via measure |
— |
— |
✓ |
— |
| Built‑in geography boundaries |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
◐ |
| Change map pitch & rotation |
— |
◐ |
◐ |
✓ |
| Lock map |
◐ |
◐ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Limit map to bounding box |
— |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
| Nautical miles on scale |
— |
— |
✓ |
— |
| Search |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Alternate coordinate systems for data |
— |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
| Custom colours on reference layers |
— |
◐ |
✓ |
◐ |
| Custom colours on clusters |
— |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
| Distance measure tool |
— |
◐ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Change behaviour of map label position |
— |
— |
✓ |
— |
| Zoom level display |
— |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
Power BI Features
|
Azure Maps |
Esri ArcGIS |
Icon Map Pro |
Icon Map Slicer |
| Can exceed 30,000 rows of data |
◐ |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
| Drill‑down |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Report page tooltips |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Conditional formatting on data objects |
◐ |
◐ |
✓ |
◐ |
| Geo‑coding to external servers |
— |
◐ |
— |
— |
| Support for Power BI Report Server |
— |
— |
◐ |
◐ |
| Support for Publish to Web |
◐ |
◐ |
✓ |
✓ |
Esri ArcGIS Integration
| Capability |
Azure Maps |
Esri ArcGIS |
Icon Map Pro |
Icon Map Slicer |
| Support for ArcGIS Enterprise |
— |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Support for ArcGIS Online |
— |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Geocoding via ArcGIS servers |
— |
✓ |
— |
— |
| API key support |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| OAuth2 client/secret token support |
— |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Username/password support |
— |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Display static ArcGIS tile layers |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Display data‑bound ArcGIS tile layers |
— |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Display static ArcGIS feature layers |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
◐ |
| Cross‑filtering to/from other visuals |
— |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Cross‑highlighting to/from other visuals |
— |
✓ |
— |
— |
| Drill‑down support |
— |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Drill‑through support |
— |
✓ |
◐ |
◐ |
| Format features/tiles using conditional formatting |
— |
◐ |
✓ |
◐ |
| Power BI tooltips for features/tiles |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
◐ |
| Filter features based on Power BI data |
— |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Support for Power BI Embedded |
◐ |
◐ |
✓ |
✓ |
ArcGIS capabilities depend on your ArcGIS subscription and the security configuration of
layers you access.
