Amazon Location Service Maps
Amazon Location Service Maps give you access to base map data for 190 countries with 5 million daily updates. Static and dynamic map capabilities provide flexibility to meet diverse user needs and deliver immersive, contextually relevant mapping solutions.
Maps offering
Amazon Location Service offers dynamic and static maps.
- Dynamic maps
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Use AWS Map Styles including standard, monochrome, hybrid, and satellite. Add interactive maps to your application using AWS map style and MapLibre
rendering engine. Dynamic maps support gestures including zoom, pan, ease, fly, pitch, rotate, and bearing. For more details, see dynamic maps. - Static maps
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Use static map URLs to embed simple map images in websites, reports, or emails without a map rendering engine. Static maps support overlays including markers (pins), routes, and polygon areas for your application. For more details, see static maps.
Prebuilt map styles
AWS map styles follow recognized industry conventions and deliver a polished, professional visual appearance. These ready-made styles accelerate development without requiring custom cartographic design. Build attractive, user-ready maps with minimal effort. For more details, see AWS map styles.
Features
AWS Map features provide enhanced visualization options for geographic, topographic, and navigation such as transit, logistics, and real-time traffic data. Create informative, context-aware map experiences tailored to your specific needs. AWS maps support internationalization and localization including political views and languages. Choose Point of interest (POI) and color schemes that suit your use case. For more details, see map features.
Common use cases
- Embed maps in your application
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Build maps into your applications to create location-based experiences. Visualize business locations, search for points of interest, and help users find specific addresses. Enable seamless location sharing and geotagging features to engage your customers. Use comprehensive map data, robust geocoding, and flexible rendering to create customized, interactive maps tailored to your needs. Integrate dynamic, high-quality mapping experiences that drive user engagement and business insights into your application, whether you're building a directory, ride-sharing app, or social platform.
- Static maps for reporting or printing
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Seamlessly add images of street maps, satellite imagery, and location-based visuals into your websites, documents, and applications. Static maps enable you to create customizable map images that provide geographical context, without complex client-side rendering. Display delivery route on receipts, include location details in documents, or integrate maps into your digital experiences.
- Analyze and visualize data
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Overlay your data onto high-quality maps to uncover transformative spatial patterns and trends. Empower your teams to create customizable, interactive map visualizations with your geographic data. Use maps and your data to optimize site selection, plan infrastructure, or analyze market opportunities.
- Enhance real estate experiences
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Provide prospective buyers with comprehensive location context for real estate listings. Display the property's exact location, as well as surrounding neighborhood details like jurisdictional boundaries, local businesses, parks, and schools. Help customers find directions to your open houses. Create informative, location-centric real estate experiences that engage and inform your clients.
- Build engaging travel experiences
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Display dynamic maps showcasing destinations, with detailed street views and key geographical features. Highlight hotels, restaurants, and other points of interest for tourists and travelers. Plot outdoor amenities, like hiking trails, to help users plan their ideal itinerary.
- Use maps to support disaster response efforts
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Timely and accurate location information is critical during crises. Use mapping capabilities to build websites and applications that provide essential context to communities during pending disasters like fires, hurricanes, and floods. Display dynamic maps showcasing evacuation routes, safe shelters, road closures, and traffic congestion to help empower communities to quickly assess the situation and make informed decisions.
Standalone Map APIs
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GetStyleDescriptor |
Retrieves the available map styles, such as standard, monochrome, hybrid, and satellite, that can be applied to maps. |
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GetTile |
Fetches individual map tiles based on a specified style and zoom level, allowing for the rendering of maps at various levels of detail. |
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GetStaticMap |
Generates a static map image based on specific coordinates and parameters, useful for embedding maps in reports or emails. |
Displaying Map
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Styling Dynamic Map |
Amazon Location Service provides two options for styling your dynamic maps namely using predesigned AWS Map Styles and customizing map style using style descriptors. |
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Rendering Dynamic Map |
Amazon Location Service recommends rendering maps using the MapLibre rendering engine. MapLibre is an engine for displaying maps in web or mobile applications. |
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Customizing Static Map |
How to customize static maps generated using Amazon Location Service. |
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Overlaying Static Map |
Overlay on your static maps to enhance the map's visual representation. |