HERE Technologies

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 searching for points of interest in over 400 categories, 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.

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.