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Amazon Location Service Documentation

Use Amazon Location Service to easily and securely add maps, places, routes, geofences, and trackers, to your applications. With Amazon Location Service, you safeguard customer data, reduce cost, and easily integrate with other AWS services.

Latest Version

  1. Maps

    Amazon Location Maps lets you create beautiful map-enabled visualizations, including embedding interactive dynamic maps, or static map imagery in your apps and even layering your own data on top of the base map.

  2. Places

    Amazon Location Places enables searching and geocoding of geographic data, including addresses, points of interest, and business info such as categories, food types, brands, and opening hours.

  3. Routes

    Amazon Location Routes calculates travel routes, estimate trip time, and optimizes travel itineraries and logistics problems using up-to-date road network data, live traffic, and rich road and vehicle attributes.

  4. Geofences

    Amazon Location Geofences allows setting up and managing virtual boundaries for monitoring when devices enter or leave specific areas, useful for asset tracking and alerts.

  5. Trackers

    Amazon Location Trackers lets you track the location of devices in near real-time, visualize movements on maps, and integrate tracking data with geofences for automated alerts.

  6. Authentication

    Learn how to authenticate with Amazon Location through API keys, IAM roles, and Amazon Cognito, ensuring secure access to your location-based applications.

Developer Tools

  1. Amazon Location SDKs

    Access SDKs that offer programmatic interaction with Amazon Location, allowing integration of location-based services into apps using various programming languages.

  2. API reference

    The Amazon Location API offers programmatic access to location-based features such as maps, geocoding, geofences, tracking, and routing services.

  3. CLI reference

    Use the AWS CLI to manage Amazon Location resources, including commands for maps, places, geofences, trackers, and routing operations, with example usage.

  1. Best practices

    Discover best practices for optimizing your use of Amazon Location to enhance performance, ensure security, and maximize the value of your location-based solutions.

  2. Integrations with AWS services

    Learn about integrating Amazon Location with other AWS services to automate workflows and monitor your resources using tools like CloudWatch.

  3. Security

    Understand how Amazon Location approaches data security, with best practices for protecting your information and complying with privacy standards.

Resources

  1. Samples and Demos 

    Access various code samples and tutorials to help you quickly learn and start building applications with Amazon Location geospatial features.

  2. Engage with the Community 

    Amazon Location provides a collaborative platforms for developers to ask questions, share knowledge, and contribute to GitHub to advance their understanding of Amazon Location.

  3. Amazon Location Pricing 

    Use the pricing tool to estimate costs for Amazon Location services based on projected usage, such as map requests, geofencing evaluations, and tracking updates.

Previous Versions

  1. Developer Guide

    Access the previous version of the Amazon Location Service developer guide for legacy documentation, practical examples, and older feature details.
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