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Amazon Location Service enhances Places APIs with new address and search options

Amazon Location Service extends Places APIs with new capabilities including address component formatting control, multilingual support, travel-optimized search, and drive-through service indicators

Amazon Location Service has announced enhancements to its Places APIs, providing developers with greater control over address name formatting, multilingual addresses, travel-optimized POI search, and drive-through data. These capabilities cover the Geocode, ReverseGeocode, GetPlace, Suggest, Autocomplete, SearchNearby, and SearchText APIs. Developers can now control how address component names are returned using the new AddressNamesMode parameter. By default, addresses return normalized names, but developers can request matched names or administrative names. The new AddressTranslations parameter returns place name translations in over 50 languages, simplifying multilingual application development. A TravelMode parameter optimizes Suggest and SearchText results for users on the move, improving relevance for navigation and in-vehicle scenarios. Additionally, GetPlace, Suggest, SearchNearby, and SearchText now return a DriveThrough attribute indicating whether a place offers drive-through service, useful for logistics, food delivery, and navigation applications. The Geocode API also supports a new Parsing.AdditionalInfo response field with extra details about how the input address was interpreted.

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