Terms of use and data attribution
Before you use Amazon Location Service, be sure you can comply with all applicable legal requirements, including license terms applicable to the use of the provider.
For more information about the AWS requirements, see Section 82 of the AWS Service Terms
. For more information about the SLAs, see Amazon Location SLA
.
Amazon Location Service leverages data from multiple sources, as shown below:
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HERE Technologies provides AWS customers access to base maps, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and street-level address data. Maps provided by HERE are constantly validated based on an average of 5 million daily updates to deliver over 900 mapping attributes and maintain accurate information.
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GrabMaps provides AWS customers access to various styles of map tiles, geocoding capabilities, reverse geocoding capabilities, and routing options. Today, GrabMaps powers more than 800 billion searches, suggestions, trips and trends each month in eight Southeast Asian countries.
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Esri provides AWS customers access to various styles of map tiles, geocoding capabilities, reverse geocoding capabilities, and street-level address data. Today, Esri’s technology is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations including 90 of the Fortune 100 companies.
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AWS provides customers access to global base maps built from the Daylight distribution of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and other open data sources. Map styles are professionally designed to support different applications and use cases, including logistics and delivery, and data visualization in web and mobile environments. With a community of over a million map makers, OSM is an open data project where contributors update more than 500,000 features per day.
When using data from Amazon Location Service you shall provide End-Users of your products and/or services with notice, in a reasonably conspicuous manner (e.g., by inserting a reference in the End-User Terms), a link to this page, which highlights our data sources, and their sources for attribution. In addition, by default, attribution is shown on the bottom right corner of the map when using Amazon Location Service to render dynamic maps.
