Amazon Location Service
Leverages Amazon Location Service to enrich data with precise geographic information, boosting location-based insights and applications.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add amazon-location-service npx -- -y @trustedskills/amazon-location-service
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"amazon-location-service": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/amazon-location-service"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill provides access to Amazon Location Service capabilities, enabling AI agents to perform geocoding (converting addresses into geographic coordinates), reverse geocoding (finding the address for a given coordinate), and calculate places. It allows agents to understand and interact with location-based data, improving their ability to respond to queries involving locations. The skill leverages AWS's geospatial services for accurate and reliable results.
When to use it
- Finding nearby businesses: An agent can determine restaurants or shops near a user’s current location.
- Calculating travel distances: Agents can estimate the distance between two addresses or coordinates.
- Reverse geocoding an address: Given GPS coordinates, the agent can identify the corresponding street address and city.
- Address validation: An agent can verify if a provided address is valid and complete.
Key capabilities
- Geocoding: Convert addresses to geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude).
- Reverse Geocoding: Convert geographic coordinates to addresses.
- Places calculation: Determine the distance between two locations or points of interest.
Example prompts
- "What are some restaurants near 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View?"
- “Can you tell me what address corresponds to latitude 37.7749 and longitude -122.4194?”
- "How far is San Francisco from Los Angeles?"
Tips & gotchas
- Requires an AWS account with appropriate permissions to access Amazon Location Service resources.
- Accuracy of results depends on the quality of the input address data.
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