AWS – Amazon Location Service launches Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps

Amazon Location Service now offers enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps functionality, enabling developers to add advanced location capabilities into their applications more easily. These improvements introduce new capabilities and a new streamlined developer experience to support location-based use cases across industries such as healthcare, transportation & logistics, and retail.

The enhancements include powerful search functions like Geocode to search addresses, Search Nearby to find local businesses, and Autocomplete to predict typed addresses, as well as richer places details including opening hours and contact information. This release also introduces advanced route planning capabilities such as Toll Cost calculation, Waypoint Optimization for multi-stop delivery, Isoline or serviceable area calculation, and supporting a variety of travel restrictions. For example, a food delivery app can use Search Nearby to find and recommend local restaurants, Optimize Waypoints to plan efficient driver routes for multiple orders, and Snap-to-Road to visualize the driver’s traveled path on a map. These enhancements are accompanied by new standalone SDKs, making it easier for developers to start new mapping projects, or migrate their existing workloads to Amazon Location Service to benefit from the cost reduction, privacy protection, and ease of integration with other AWS services.

Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), and South America (São Paulo). To learn more, please visit the Developer Guide.
 

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