LocationServicePlacesV2

Client

class LocationServicePlacesV2.Client

A low-level client representing Amazon Location Service Places V2

The Places API enables powerful location search and geocoding capabilities for your applications, offering global coverage with rich, detailed information. Key features include:

• Forward and reverse geocoding for addresses and coordinates. See Geocode and ReverseGeocode.

• Comprehensive place searches with detailed information. See SearchText, SearchNearby, and GetPlace. Place information you can find include:

  • Business names and addresses

  • Contact information

  • Hours of operation

  • Points of Interest (POI) categories

  • Food types for restaurants

  • Chain affiliation for relevant businesses

• Address and place completion as users type, enhancing input efficiency by completing partial queries with valid addresses. See Autocomplete.

• Intelligent place and query recommendation based on user’s input or context, returning relevant places, points of interest, query terms, or search categories. See Suggest.

• Global data coverage with a wide range of POI categories.

• Regular data updates to ensure accuracy and relevance.

• Bulk address validation for verifying and standardizing large volumes of addresses in a single operation using Amazon Location Service Jobs.

client = session.create_client('geo-places')

These are the available methods:

• autocomplete
• can_paginate
• close
• geocode
• get_paginator
• get_place
• get_waiter
• reverse_geocode
• search_nearby
• search_text
• suggest

Client Exceptions

Client exceptions are available on a client instance via the exceptions property. For more detailed instructions and examples on the exact usage of client exceptions, see the error handling user guide.

The available client exceptions are:

• AccessDeniedException
• InternalServerException
• ThrottlingException
• ValidationException