Amazon Location Service introduces enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps functionalities for developers to add advanced location capabilities into their applications, including powerful search, richer places details, advanced route planning, and new standalone SDKs to ease migration and integration.

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<p>Amazon Location Service has launched Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps, which provides new functionality and a streamlined developer experience for building location-based applications. This update enables advanced location capabilities across various industries like healthcare, transportation & logistics, and retail.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>New powerful search functions like Geocode, Search Nearby, and Autocomplete</li>
<li>Richer places details including opening hours and contact information</li>
<li>Advanced route planning capabilities such as Toll Cost calculation, Waypoint Optimization, Isoline calculation, and support for travel restrictions</li>
<li>New standalone SDKs to simplify starting new mapping projects or migrating existing workloads</li>
<li>Availability in multiple AWS Regions across the world</li>
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