G2 Vendor Directory

Azure Maps vs. Surfer

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Maps

by Microsoft

Surfer

by Golden Software

Overall rating4.14.6
Review count12126
Ease of use8.68.9
Ease of setup8.19.3
Quality of support8.39.3
Meets requirements9.18.8
NPS33.33333374.193548
Small Business50.0%53.2%
Mid-Market8.3%26.2%
Enterprise41.7%20.6%
Total page views137600
Total LLM citations2863,669

Azure Maps

Azure Maps provides developers from all industries, powerful geospatial capabilities, packed with fresh mapping data necessary to provide geographic context to web and mobile applications.

Pros

    Surfer

    Surfer® is a full-function 2D and 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis software package for scientists and engineers. Surfer's sophisticated interpolation engine quickly transforms XYZ and XYZC data into publication-quality maps. Virtually every aspect of the map is customizable. Enhance maps with profiles, legends, titles and labels, faults and breaklines, or external maps from any web mapping service. Surfer is used extensively by geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists, archaeologists, oceanographers, biologists, consultants, engineers, and many others across the globe.

    Pros