Features by data provider - Amazon Location Service

Features by data provider

This section describes the features available in Amazon Location Service, categorized by data provider.

The following table provides a high-level overview of the features.

Data provider Geographical coverage Feature coverage AWS Region
Esri Global Maps, Places, Routes All Regions where Amazon Location is available.
Grab Southeast Asia Maps, Places, Routes Asia Pacific (Singapore), ap-southeast-1, only.
HERE Global Maps, Places, Routes All Regions where Amazon Location is available.
Open Data Global Maps All Regions where Amazon Location is available.

The following tabs show details within each feature area.

Map Features

The following table shows the map features by data provider. For more information about map concepts, see Learn about Maps resources in Amazon Location Service.

Data provider Supported map types Vector zoom levels Raster zoom levels

Esri

Vector

Raster (imagery)

For more information, see Esri map styles.

0-15

0-23

Grab

Vector

(Southeast Asia only)

For more information, see Grab map styles.

0-14

none

HERE

Vector

Raster (imagery)

Hybrid

For more information, see HERE map styles.

1-17

0-19

Open Data

Vector

For more information, see Open Data map styles.

0-15

none
Note

Zoom levels represent the maximum and minimum settings, as defined in each provider's APIs. Different areas of the map may have different maximums; for example, ocean tiles may have fewer detailed zoom levels than areas in major cities.

MapLibre (and other map rendering engines) allow you to set minimum and maximum zoom levels, and will also honor the data provider zoom levels in an area, so you do not have to write code to handle these discrepancies.

Places and Search

The following table shows the place and search features by data provider. For more information about place concepts, see Learn about Places search in Amazon Location Service.

Data provider Geocoding Reverse Geocoding Autocomplete GetPlace

Esri

All features, except:

   PlaceId

All features, except:

   TimeZone

   PlaceId

All features

All features

Grab

All features, except:

   unit type

   Categories not supported

All features

All features

All features, except:

   unit type

   SubMunicipality

HERE

All features, except:

   unit number

   unit type

   relevance

   Additional limitations on filtering

All features

All features

All features, except:

   unit number

   unit type

   SubMunicipality

Open Data

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Only supports:

   SubMunicipality
Route features

The following table shows the route features by data provider. For more information about route concepts, see Learn about routing in Amazon Location Service. For more detailed descriptions of route matrix limitations, see Restrictions on departure and destination positions.

Data provider Travel modes Calculate route Route matrix

Esri

Car, Truck, Walking

Departure and destination must be within 400 km of each other. The total travel time can't be more than 400 minutes.

ArrivalTime is not supported.

Up to 10 departure and destination positions.

Not supported in Korea.

All departure and destination pairs must be within 400 km of each other.

Grab

Car, Motorcycle.

Walking and Bicycle in selected cities.

No distance limits.

Up to 350 departure and destination positions.

HERE

Car, Truck, Walking

No distance limit. Routes that go more than 10 km outside a circle around the departure and destination positions will not be calculated.

Up to 350 departure and destination positions.

All departure and destination positions must fall with a 180 km circle.

Longer routes are supported, with additional restrictions.

Open Data

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Each data provider gathers and produces data in different ways. You can learn more about their coverage areas in the following topics:

If you encounter a problem with the data and want to report an error to the data provider, see the following topics: