Amazon Location Service this week announced that it is offering enhanced enhanced the Routes, Places, and Maps functionality to enable developers to add advanced location capability. The company says the new capabilities allow developers to support location-based use cases in industries healthcare, transportation & logistics and retail.
The company said that developers can access advanced route optimization, toll cost calculations, GPS traces snapping, and map styles with static and dynamic rendering options. This allows developers to perform proximity-based search and predictive suggestions that includes detailed information on points of interest, the company said.
One of the new features include a Geocode search function for addresses. Others include Search Nearby functions to find local businesses and an Autocomplete capability to predict typed addresses and other information, the company said. Search Nearby, for example, allows a food delivery app to find and recommend local restaurants, the company said.
The new enhancements also include Toll Cost calculation and Waypoint Optimization for multi-stop delivery. Yet another feature is Isoline, which supports travel restrictions.
The company said the enhancements offer new standalone SDKs to allow developers to start new mapping projects or migrate their existing workloads to Amazon Location Service.
