Can one use this to reverse geocode an address?
I'm not sure how Amazon exposes everything, but from the esri side of things it's possible.
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#52If you're looking for a simple, polished, developer-friendly alternative, check out Radar ( https://radar.io ). Think Twilio/Braze/Amplitude/Segment/Radar vs. SNS/Pinpoint/EventBridge/Location Service.
Tim Hortons in Canada is being probed for using Radar Labs in their mobile app. "Tim Hortons' parent company, Toronto-based Restaurant Brands partners with Radar Labs, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company , which provides location-based data analytics, and helps the Tims app to identify when users are near competing fast-food restaurants and coffee shops." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-privacy-wat...
Heh, Burger King did that to offer $0.01 whopper coupons but I guess the difference is the app had to be in use and known to the user to recognize the location--
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/12/04/burger-king-...
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#53Why isn't this page loading? http://aws.amazon.com/location
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#54I 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.
Sure but that's just a matter of timing. :)
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#55why nobody use openstreetmap ? I was always wondering why google concurrent don't use OSM, the quality is better than here and they would benefit a lot from OSM to compete against google. I don't understand why microsoft doesn't use OSM for bing map to replace their shitty map and why facebook doesn't use OSM to display map.
Microsoft does use OSM data in Bing Maps. If you zoom to a the scale of a city block on Bing Maps, you'll see "© OpenStreetMap" in the lower right corner of the screen.
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#56Always great to have an alternative to Google but I'd encourage anyone to have a look at Leaflet.js which is a great free alternative and doesn't take much JS knowledge to get up and running Edited to say: and of course it runs on OpenStreetMaps
Leaflet.js is just the client piece. You still need a tile server, which is one of the commercial services being offered here. While you _can_ use the OSM's tile servers, they offer no guarantees: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/ They also have ongoing operational problems/expenses from people using their tile servers, and it's possible that they will one day break you in order to keep their own s…
I've been looking at potentially selfhosting a tile server and it's way more complicated than I thought. Even getting the OSM tileset in is a pain - not even just from the filesize.
Should add that I wanted to self host mostly for privacy. This project I'm working on I'm trying really hard to have no external requests and everything privacy respecting. Unfortunately I really need maps on it and none of the providers I've seen are either in budget or have a compatible privacy policy.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leaflet.js is just the client piece. You still need a tile server, which is one of the commercial services being offered here. While you _can_ use the OSM's tile servers, they offer no guarantees: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/ They also have ongoing operational problems/expenses from people using their tile servers, and it's possible that they will one day break you in order to keep their own s…
I've been looking at potentially selfhosting a tile server and it's way more complicated than I thought. Even getting the OSM tileset in is a pain - not even just from the filesize. Should add that I wanted to self host mostly for privacy. This project I'm working on I'm trying really hard to have no external requests and everything privacy respecting. Unfortunately I really need maps on it and none of the providers…
I've been hosting my own tileserver for a while, but because I couldn't build the latest times from OSM, I had to use outdated tiles.
I can't remember what I used, but I built a Docker image in the end.
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#5810x cheaper than Google (at least for geolocation). That's unexpected. GCP is usually cheaper than AWS.
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#5910x cheaper than Google (at least for geolocation). That's unexpected. GCP is usually cheaper than AWS.
Google increased their pricing, I think last year or 2.
My website used to be within the free tier, but after the increase, I started paying $100 a month.
I ended up spinning up a self-hosted tile server, which I used for new projects unrelated to my website or its data.
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#60Based 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…
I wonder if this was the whole reason Mapbox made their change?