Amazon Location Service Enhancements: New Map Styling Capabilities
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Developers can now create more targeted and visually compelling maps, improving the user experience and enabling new applications.
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Amazon Location Service released enhanced map styling options, offering developers greater control over terrain, traffic, and 3D experiences. The new features, including customizable contour line density and traffic congestion-only mode, allow for tailored map visualizations for diverse use cases. Developers should update their applications to leverage these new styling capabilities and explore the expanded feature support across various map styles.
Amazon Location Service Enhancements: New Map Styling Capabilities
Amazon Location Service today announced new map styling capabilities, providing developers with greater control over terrain visualization, traffic display, and immersive 3D experiences. This release introduces customizable contour line density levels, a traffic congestion-only mode, 3D Terrain and Globe View features, and expands support for existing features across multiple map styles. These capabilities enable you to customize maps for diverse use cases. Choose from three contour line density levels (Low, Medium, and High) to control elevation data visualization, with Low density emphasizing major elevation changes, Medium density providing balanced detail, and High density showing double the contour lines for intricate terrain views. Display traffic strategically with the new traffic congestion-only mode, which filters out free-flowing traffic to highlight incidents and congestion. Create immersive experiences with 3D Terrain and 3D Globe View with Atmosphere, featuring realistic elevation and atmospheric effects. Additionally, existing features like full traffic visualization, Transit and Truck travel modes, and dark and light color schemes are now available across more map styles, including Monochrome, Hybrid, and Satellite. Amazon Location Service is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). To get started, visit the Amazon Location Service Developer Guide or try the hands-on how to code samples .