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Re: Amazon Location Service

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Post by shivaas »

one2know wrote: post #35
guruz wrote: post #32

> You can choose between maps and map styles provided by Esri and by HERE Technologies, I wonder why not use the HERE or Esri APIs directly? Is this just a marketing gimmick so Amazon can complete their offering? https://developer.here.com/

Because then Amazon can't track all your users. Imagine a delivery company uses Amazon's API for its in-truck apps or route planning. Amazon drinks your data, it drinks it up.

Do you have a source for this assertion? I assuming the privacy policy or terms of use would have this spelled out fairly clearly.

Re: Amazon Location Service

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Post by mike_d »

jcims wrote: post #27

I wonder if this is the opening shot across ESRI's bow that Amazon is getting into the GIS space. Could be a problem for them.

Well Amazon is licensing data from ESRI, so I don't think they will be incredibly shocked by this announcement.

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Post by gregsadetsky »

Based on the recent license change by Mapbox[0], it means that Amazon Location's tutorial[1] suggesting to use Mapbox GL JS should be updated, right?

i.e. using Amazon Location with the v2 Mapbox GL JS would also require paying Mapbox for every map load, or you'd need to use the pre v2 version (the last "Open Source one") of the Mapbox GL JS library, correct?

EDIT: as pointed by @kylebarron below, Amazon specifically mentions "Amazon Location supports open source versions of Mapbox GL JS (v1.13.0 or earlier)." [2] which is the last Open Source version.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347310

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/t...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/t...

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Post by mediascreen »

evangow wrote: post #13
Zaheer wrote: post #10

This is great but I really hope they get into the more popular uses like IP to location, autocomplete, etc APIs. There’s tons of small providers and some big ones out there that do this but it seems like an easy add for Amazon to do.

You can do IP to location if you deploy a Lamda@Edge and get the cloudfront headers https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/cloudfron...

You don't even have to use Lamda@Edge, you can just forward them to your origin and use them there.

A client used an IP to country service until we realized that we already had the information they needed in the Cloudfront headers.

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Post by kylebarron »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #43

Based on the recent license change by Mapbox[0], it means that Amazon Location's tutorial[1] suggesting to use Mapbox GL JS should be updated, right? i.e. using Amazon Location with the v2 Mapbox GL JS would also require paying Mapbox for every map load, or you'd need to use the pre v2 version (the last "Open Source one") of the Mapbox GL JS library, correct? EDIT: as pointed by @kylebarron below, Amazon specifically…

That's why they point to Mapbox GL JS v1 in the script tag [0]

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/t...

Re: Amazon Location Service

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Post by gregsadetsky »

kylebarron wrote: post #47
gregsadetsky wrote: post #43

Based on the recent license change by Mapbox[0], it means that Amazon Location's tutorial[1] suggesting to use Mapbox GL JS should be updated, right? i.e. using Amazon Location with the v2 Mapbox GL JS would also require paying Mapbox for every map load, or you'd need to use the pre v2 version (the last "Open Source one") of the Mapbox GL JS library, correct? EDIT: as pointed by @kylebarron below, Amazon specifically…

That's why they point to Mapbox GL JS v1 in the script tag [0] [0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/t...

Thank you, great observation!

"Amazon Location supports open source versions of Mapbox GL JS (v1.13.0 or earlier)."

Cheers

Re: Amazon Location Service

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Post by ThinkBeat »

"Until now, doing this has been somewhat complex and expensive, and also tied you to the business and programming models of a single provider."

Um.. It ties you to AWS as the single provider of this API.

I look forward to taking a look at it. Other products I have used were complex.

Re: Amazon Location Service

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Post by kylebarron »

ilyas121 wrote: post #5

Can I get satellite images? Only thing holding me back from switching completely from GCP to AWS for a couple projects.

You might be referring to very processed satellite images, but AWS has many more satellite/aerial data sources than GCP in their Open Data program

[0]: https://registry.opendata.aws/sentinel-2/ [1]: https://registry.opendata.aws/sentinel-2-l2a-cogs/ [2]: https://registry.opendata.aws/landsat-8/ [3]: https://registry.opendata.aws/naip/

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