Places
Amazon Location Service Places enables you to build applications that offer rich information about geographic locations. You can add point-of-interest search, convert addresses into geographic coordinates, convert a coordinate into a street address, locate nearby points of interest, suggest search results, and simplify address entry.
Key Features
By the Numbers
400M+
Accurate house number data with position across the world350M+
Precise point addresses in 108 countries10+
Political views150M+
Categorized places in over 190 countries across the worldUse Cases
Enhance address input experience
Provide real-time suggestions on valid street addresses as your customers type in their location into websites or apps. Help customers ensure that their delivery or pick up locations matches your known locations. Streamline address validation and eliminate frustrating errors by matching customer inputs to your supported locations. Reduce cart abandonment, boost conversions, and create a frictionless checkout journey.
Discover local places
Help your customers find the the closest relevant place. Your real estates customers can find the nearest schools, grocery stores and parks. Build a list of business you want to market your services to. Search by category and get information including addresses, geocodes, and other place details.
Provide customers with up-to-date business details
Inform your customers with the most current details about local businesses. Search a business by name or category in a specific area, to enhance your customers’ experience or inform business decisions.. For example, give your gym customers the ability to find all the local health food stores, or make sure food delivery drivers arrive at their pick-up location during open hours.
Enrich customer addresses with detailed insights
Enhance existing customer address data with additional details like zip codes, geographical coordinates, phone numbers, business categories, and operating hours. Leverage the perpetual storage option to persistently save this data in your database, informing business decisions and marketing programs.
Find geospatial coordinates of addresses to calculate routes and driving directions
Convert addresses or business names into geospatial coordinates and calculate the best route for your food delivery or your rideshare drop off. Use the coordinates in conjunction with waypoint sequencing to calculate the most optimal path when making multiple stops.