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Amazon Location Service Developer Guide Table of Contents What is Amazon Location Service? ....................................................................................................... 1 Key features .............................................................................................................................. 1 Related services ......................................................................................................................... 2 How Amazon Location Service Works ................................................................................................... 3 Overview ................................................................................................................................... 3 Maps ................................................................................................................................ 4 Places ............................................................................................................................... 4 Routes .............................................................................................................................. 5 Geofences ......................................................................................................................... 6 Trackers ............................................................................................................................ 6 Component definitions ............................................................................................................... 7 Maps ................................................................................................................................ 7 Places ............................................................................................................................... 7 Routes .............................................................................................................................. 8 Geofences ........................................................................................................................ 10 Trackers ........................................................................................................................... 11 Regions and endpoints .............................................................................................................. 12 Regions ........................................................................................................................... 12 Endpoints ........................................................................................................................ 12 Data providers ................................................................................................................................. 14 Esri ......................................................................................................................................... 14 Map styles ....................................................................................................................... 14 Coverage ......................................................................................................................... 20 Terms of use and data attribution ...................................................................................... 20 Error reporting ................................................................................................................. 21 HERE Technologies ................................................................................................................... 21 Map styles ....................................................................................................................... 21 Coverage ......................................................................................................................... 20 Terms of use and data attribution ...................................................................................... 22 Error reporting ................................................................................................................. 22 Common use cases ........................................................................................................................... 23 User engagement and geomarketing applications ......................................................................... 23 Asset tracking applications ........................................................................................................ 24 Delivery applications ................................................................................................................. 25 Getting started ................................................................................................................................ 27 Sign up for AWS ...................................................................................................................... 27 Manage access to your AWS resources ........................................................................................ 27 Grant access to Amazon Location Service .................................................................................... 28 Next steps ............................................................................................................................... 29 Accessing Amazon Location ............................................................................................................... 30 Allowing unauthenticated guest access using Amazon Cognito ....................................................... 30 Create an Amazon Cognito identity pool ............................................................................. 31 Using the Identity Pool from JavaScript .............................................................................. 35 Next steps ....................................................................................................................... 35 Using Amazon Location ..................................................................................................................... 36 Using maps ............................................................................................................................. 36 Display a map in your application ...................................................................................... 37 Geocoding, reverse geocoding, and searching .............................................................................. 70 Prerequisites .................................................................................................................... 70 Geocoding ....................................................................................................................... 73 Reverse geocoding ............................................................................................................ 76 Tutorial: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL user-defined functions .................................................. 77 Calculating a route ................................................................................................................... 87 Prerequisites .................................................................................................................... 87 iii Amazon Location Service Developer Guide Calculate route ................................................................................................................ 90 Geofencing an area of interest ................................................................................................... 95 Step 1: Add geofences ...................................................................................................... 96 Step 2: Start tracking ....................................................................................................... 99 Step 3: Link a tracker to a geofence collection ................................................................... 103 Step 4: Evaluate device positions against geofences ............................................................ 104 Reacting to geofence events with EventBridge ........................................................................... 105 Create event rules .......................................................................................................... 105 Event examples .............................................................................................................. 106 Monitoring with CloudWatch .................................................................................................... 107 Metrics .......................................................................................................................... 108 View metrics .................................................................................................................. 109 Create CloudWatch alarms ..............................................................................................