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geo-places¶
Description¶
The Places API enables powerful location search and geocoding capabilities for your applications, offering global coverage with rich, detailed information. Key features include:
- Forward and reverse geocoding for addresses and coordinates. See Geocode and ReverseGeocode .
- Comprehensive place searches with detailed information. See SearchText , SearchNearby , and GetPlace . Place information you can find include:
- Business names and addresses
- Contact information
- Hours of operation
- Points of Interest (POI) categories
- Food types for restaurants
- Chain affiliation for relevant businesses
- Address and place completion as users type, enhancing input efficiency by completing partial queries with valid addresses. See Autocomplete .
- Intelligent place and query recommendation based on user’s input or context, returning relevant places, points of interest, query terms, or search categories. See Suggest .
- Global data coverage with a wide range of POI categories.
- Regular data updates to ensure accuracy and relevance.
- Bulk address validation for verifying and standardizing large volumes of addresses in a single operation using Amazon Location Service Jobs .