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Esri

Amazon Location Service uses Esri's location services to help AWS customers to use maps, geocode, and calculate routes effectively. Esri’s location services are built with high-quality, authoritative, and ready-to-use location data, curated by expert teams of cartographers, geographers, and demographers.

For additional capability information, see Esri on Amazon Location Service data providers.

Esri map styles

Amazon Location Service supports the following Esri map styles when creating a map resource.

Note

Esri map styles that are not listed in this section are not supported.

The Esri vector styles support alternate Political views.

Esri Navigation

Esri Navigation

Map style name: VectorEsriNavigation

This map provides a detailed basemap for the world symbolized with a custom navigation map style that's designed for use during the day in mobile devices.

This comprehensive street map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries. The vector tile layer in this map is built using the same data sources used for the World Street Map and other Esri basemaps. Enable the POI layer by setting it in CustomLayers to leverage the additional places data.

For more information, see Esri World Navigation on the Esri website.

Note

TheVectorEsriNavigation map pictured above has the POI layer enabled.

Fonts

Amazon Location serves fonts using GetMapGlyphs. The following are available font stacks for this map:

  • Arial Italic

  • Arial Regular

  • Arial Bold

  • Arial Unicode MS Bold

  • Arial Unicode MS Regular

Esri Imagery

Esri Imagery

Map style name: RasterEsriImagery

This map provides one meter or better satellite and aerial imagery in many parts of the world and lower resolution satellite imagery worldwide.

The map includes 15m imagery at small and mid-scales (~1:591M down to ~1:72k) and 2.5m SPOT Imagery (~1:288k to ~1:72k) for the world. The map features 0.5m resolution imagery in the continental United States and parts of Western Europe from Maxar. This map features additional Maxar submeter imagery in many parts of the world. In other parts of the world, the GIS User Community has contributed imagery at different resolutions. In select communities, very high-resolution imagery (down to 0.03m) is available down to ~1:280 scale.

For more information, see Esri World Imagery on the Esri website.

Esri Light

Esri Light

Map style name: VectorEsriTopographic

This provides a detailed basemap for the world symbolized with a classic Esri map style. This includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries.

This basemap is compiled from a variety of authoritative sources from several data providers, including the US Geological Survey (USGS), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), US National Park Service (NPS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), HERE, and Esri. Data for select areas is sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors. Additionally, data is provided by the GIS community.

Fonts

Amazon Location serves fonts using GetMapGlyphs. The following are available font stacks for this map:

  • Noto Sans Italic

  • Noto Sans Regular

  • Noto Sans Bold

  • Noto Serif Regular

  • Roboto Condensed Light Italic

Esri Light Gray Canvas

Esri Light Gray Canvas

Map style name: VectorEsriLightGrayCanvas

This map provides a detailed basemap for the world symbolized with a light gray, neutral background style with minimal colors, labels, and features that's designed to draw attention to your thematic content.

This vector tile layer is built using the same data sources used for the Light Gray Canvas and other Esri basemaps. The map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries.

For more information, see Esri Light Gray Canvas on the Esri website.

Fonts

Amazon Location serves fonts using GetMapGlyphs. The following are available font stacks for this map:

  • Ubuntu Italic

  • Ubuntu Regular

  • Ubuntu Light

  • Ubuntu Bold

Esri Street Map

Esri Street Map

Map style name: VectorEsriStreets

This map provides a detailed basemap for the world symbolized with a custom navigation map style that's designed for use during the day in mobile devices.

This comprehensive street map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries. It also includes a richer set of places, such as shops, services, restaurants, attractions, and other points of interest. The vector tile layer in this map is built using the same data sources used for the World Street Map and other Esri basemaps.

For more information, see Esri World Street on the Esri website.

Fonts

Amazon Location serves fonts using GetMapGlyphs. The following are available font stacks for this map:

  • Arial Italic

  • Arial Regular

  • Arial Bold

  • Arial Unicode MS Bold

  • Arial Unicode MS Regular

Esri Dark Gray Canvas

Esri Dark Gray Canvas

Map style name: VectorEsriDarkGrayCanvas

This map provides a detailed vector basemap for the world symbolized with a dark gray, neutral background style with minimal colors, labels, and features that's designed to draw attention to your thematic content.

This map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries. The vector tile layers in this map are built using the same data sources used for the Dark Gray Canvas raster map and other Esri basemaps.

For more information, see Esri Dark Gray Canvas on the Esri website.

Fonts

Amazon Location serves fonts using GetMapGlyphs. The following are available font stacks for this map:

  • Ubuntu Medium Italic

  • Ubuntu Medium

  • Ubuntu Italic

  • Ubuntu Regular

  • Ubuntu Bold

Coverage: Esri

You can use Esri as a data provider to support queries for geocoding, reverse geocoding, and searches when you create a place index resource, or to support queries to calculate a route when you create a route calculator resource.

Esri provides different levels of data quality in different regions of the world. For additional information about coverage in your region of interest, see:

Terms of use and data attribution: Esri

Before you use Esri's data, be sure you can comply with all applicable legal requirements, including license terms applicable to Esri and AWS.

For more information about the AWS requirements, see AWS Service Terms.

For information about Esri's attribution guidelines, see Esri's Data Attributions and Terms of Use.

Error reporting to Esri

If you encounter a problem with the data and want to report errors and discrepancies to Esri, follow Esri's technical support article for How to: Provide feedback on basemaps and geocoding.