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Found inconsistencies in the Address Autocomplete API results between Bing Maps and Azure Maps
You’re comparing Bing Maps autocomplete with Azure Maps for Indian addresses and POIs, where Azure Maps omits or mislabels results. The key distinction is endpoint scope: Azure Maps Address Search is for geocoding and does not return POIs, while Fuzzy Search combines address and POI indexes and supports type-ahead. Test the production REST endpoint with the full query, countrySet=IN, view=IN, typeahead enabled, and a Mumbai latitude and longitude bias or bounding box. For business names, use Fuzzy Search with POI included; for street addresses, use Address Search or Geocode Autocomplete. Log the exact request, API version, response, and coordinates for every missing result. Azure Maps and Bing Maps use different search data and ranking, so identical suggestions are not guaranteed. If a named place remains absent after scoped testing, submit the reproducible request and expected location to Azure support as a data-quality issue.