"We live in a world that is increasingly powered by location data and technology, enabling people and objects to move and interact faster, safer and in more efficient ways than ever before," said Jørgen Behrens, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at HERE Technologies. "Building on this understanding, we are excited to collaborate with AWS, and deliver high-quality location data to a broader market and the AWS developer community.”
Jørgen Behrens, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at HERE Technologies
| HERE capabilities available on Amazon Location Service | |||||
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| Maps | Geocoding | Reverse Geocoding | Search | Routing | |
| Capabilities | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Coming soon |
| Coverage | Global | Coming soon | |||
| Map styles | Base maps, HERE Berlin | ||||
HERE Technologies is a leading location data and technology platform company offering a location-centric platform that is open, secure, and private. Based on the concept of location and the potential it has to radically improve the way you do business. HERE is driven to move people, businesses, and cities forward by harnessing the power of location.
By selecting HERE location data, you are selecting accurate, fresh, and robust data that is deployed natively on the AWS Cloud.
HERE provides Amazon Location Service with map rendering, geocoding and search, with global coverage and local flavour that transcends geographic borders. Soon HERE will also provide Amazon Location Service with routing capabilities.
The HERE vector tile service allows for vector tiles style customization while still providing for the needs of the lightweight applications. This means the AWS customers can leverage HERE or any 3rd party rendering engine for the map creation of their choice through a delivery format containing geometries, labels and other data typically passed to a renderer to draw a map. In addition, customers will benefit from the freshest and one of the highest accuracy levels of map content available today. The HERE Map receives over 5 million updates on average per day across the globe, which are thoroughly validated to deliver over 900 mapping attributes while maintaining the most accurate index of reality.
Through Amazon Location Service, customers can access a comprehensive portfolio of geocoding and search functionalities provided by HERE, from translating latitude and longitude information into the human-readable address and vice-versa, to intelligently search for points of interest, while retrieving the most relevant information from them.
HERE’s data comes with a high level of quality, flexibility and functionality and enables critical use cases with precision and relevancy at their core, through a set of features that give access to location context inclusive of administrative and postal code boundary shapes, point addressing, high-precision postal codes, match quality levels and more. While leveraging a robust geocoding engine, it gives access to places geocoding capability which allows for HERE’s vast database of POIs to be recognized in geocoding queries, enabling more relevant and meaningful results.
To use HERE’s capabilities, please log in the Amazon Location Service Console. To view the terms and conditions, please visits terms.
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Style of maps on Amazon Location Service from HERE
HERE Berlin Style
The following figure illustrates Berlin map data served by the HERE Vector Tile API and leverages the rendering libraries and styles offered by HERE. This style, Berlin, is inspired by the vibrant city of Berlin. The style colors are influenced from the city itself, blue from the river Spree, green from the many parks and forests of the city and yellow for the color of the taxis and the public transport system.
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