{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "amazon-location", "name": "Amazon Location Service", "vendor": "Amazon Web Services", "vendorUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/location/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "maps", "summary": "Amazon Location Service is AWS's API for geocoding, place search, routing and map tiles, with geofences and device tracking. Agents call regional REST endpoints with an API key or IAM credentials, or through the AWS SDKs and CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-location.json", "dns": "amazon-location.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/aws-geospatial/amazon-location-agent-context", "license": "Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and AWS Service Terms. The AWS SDK clients and the agent context package on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-geo-places" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-geo-routes" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-geo-maps" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "boto3" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access needs an AWS account. Maps, Places and Routes accept an Amazon Location API key in the `key` query parameter, created in the console, the CLI or the `CreateKey` call, limited to named actions and resources, with optional expiry and referrer or mobile app restrictions. Every API also accepts AWS Signature Version 4 with IAM credentials or a role, and Amazon Cognito identity pools for unauthenticated clients. Geofences, trackers and the Jobs API refuse API keys. API keys can't be used over AWS PrivateLink (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/using-apikeys.html).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Geocoding, reverse geocoding and place search cost $0.50 per 1,000 requests (core), $1.50 with advanced fields and $4.00 when results are stored, in US East (N. Virginia). Routes cost $0.50 per 1,000 for car, truck or pedestrian, map tiles $0.04 per 1,000. No sandbox or contract is needed, but an AWS account is. The pricing page lists monthly allowances for the first three months (20,000 core Places requests, 10,000 routes, 500,000 tiles) and up to $200 of credits for customers who joined after 15 July 2025. Volume discounts above $5,000 a month are by quote (https://aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$0.50 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer guide's llms.txt, the service models or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 426988, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/what-is.html", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "geo.geocode", "geo.reverse", "geo.places", "geo.routing", "geo.tiles" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "enterprise", "llms-txt", "free-tier", "no-card", "sla", "status-page", "batch" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 43, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 88, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 95, "schema": 87, "security": 76, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Places, Routes and Maps calls work over plain HTTPS with an API key limited to named actions, and every one of the 17 operations is read-only with typed inputs. Access starts with an AWS account a person opens, the key travels in the URL query string, and stored results cost eight times the single-use rate.", "bestFor": "Operators already on AWS who want geocoding, places and routing inside IAM, CloudTrail and one bill, with HERE data and GrabMaps for Southeast Asia.", "strengths": [ "API keys are limited to named actions and resources, can expire, and can be restricted by referrer or mobile app identifier", "All 17 Places, Routes and Maps operations are marked read-only in the public Smithy models, with enums and numeric ranges on inputs", "Default rates are published per operation (100 a second for each Places call, 20 for `CalculateRoutes`) and can be doubled by self-service", "An SLA of 99.9 per cent monthly uptime per region, with credits of 10, 25 and 100 per cent", "AWS's sub-processor list names the map data providers (Esri, Grab, HERE) and where each processes requests" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API key is sent as the `key` query parameter, the only documented way to present it", "Storing or caching results is barred unless `IntendedUse` is `Storage`, billed at $4.00 per 1,000 against $0.50 for single use", "An AWS account opened by a person in a browser is needed before any call, and no keyless or machine-payment route exists", "The developer guide gives no backoff or `Retry-After` guidance for `ThrottlingException` (429)", "The guide's document history holds one entry, dated 31 October 2024, so API changes have to be read from the SDK models" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call the v2 endpoints (`places.geo.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com/v2/geocode`, `routes.geo`, `maps.geo`). They need no resource creation, unlike the v1 place index and route calculator calls", "Set `IntendedUse` to `Storage` before saving or caching any Places result. The default `SingleUse` results may not be stored under section 82.4 of the AWS Service Terms", "Read `PricingBucket` in each response. Requesting `Contact`, `Access`, `TimeZone` or `Phonemes` in `AdditionalFeatures` moves a Places call from $0.50 to $1.50 per 1,000", "Keep the API key out of logs and shared URLs, since it travels as `?key=`. Use SigV4 with an IAM role for server-side work, and for the Jobs API, which refuses API keys", "Back off on HTTP 429 `ThrottlingException`. The burst allowance is 80 per cent of the per-second rate within any part of a second" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 76.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 88, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 30, "reliability": 95, "schema": 87, "security": 76, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 94, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-17", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install boto3 # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-geo-places", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url 'https://places.geo.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/v2/geocode?key=Your_Key' \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"QueryText\": \"510 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC\"}'", "claudeCode": "/plugin install amazon-location-service@claude-plugins-official" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/geo.geocode", "tool": "https://letme.dev/amazon-location" }, "sameCompany": [ "amazon-bedrock", "amazon-nova-embeddings", "amazon-bedrock-guardrails", "amazon-transcribe", "amazon-polly", "amazon-nova-sonic", "agentcore-memory", "agentcore-identity", "aws-secrets-manager", "agentcore-web-search", "aws-mcp-servers", "amazon-ses", "amazon-translate", "amazon-ads-api", "amazon-creators-api" ], "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Geocode, reverse geocode, place search (core)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.5, "note": "US East. `SingleUse` results, not for storage" }, { "item": "Geocode, reverse geocode, place search (advanced)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.5, "note": "With contacts, opening hours, access points or time zone" }, { "item": "Geocode, reverse geocode, place search (stored)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4, "note": "`IntendedUse` set to `Storage`" }, { "item": "Autocomplete and Suggest (label)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.2 }, { "item": "Routes calculated (core)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.5, "note": "Car, truck or pedestrian. A matrix bills origins times destinations" }, { "item": "Routes with toll cost (premium)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4 }, { "item": "Dynamic map tiles", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.04 }, { "item": "Static map images", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.5 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.", "domain": "amazon.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/", "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status", "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/doc-history.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "The AWS Service Terms (last updated 30 October 2026) govern the service, with Amazon Location Service at section 82. The AWS Customer Agreement sits above them.", "The AWS Privacy Notice (last updated 18 May 2026, re-read on 1 November) names Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210.", "The endpoints are on amazonaws.com and api.aws, both AWS domains.", "aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt carries Expires 2027-10-16T16:25:03.000Z on 2026-11-01. It points to the AWS VDP at vdp.aws.security and HackerOne.", "RDAP for amazon.com gives a registration date of 1994-11-01 (per the 17 October check).", "The document history page still has one entry, dated 31 October 2024. API changes are otherwise visible in AWS What's New posts and the SDK service models." ], "score": 94 }, "requirements": { "setupChecked": true, "complianceChecked": true, "card": "paid-only", "freeTier": true, "minutes": 15, "credential": "mixed", "hosting": [ "US", "CA", "EU", "UK", "APAC" ], "euResidency": "unknown", "trainsOnData": "no", "zeroRetention": "unknown", "certifications": [ "SOC 2 Type II", "ISO 27001", "ISO 27701", "CSA STAR", "HIPAA (BAA available)", "FedRAMP", "GDPR" ], "dpa": true, "selfHost": "no" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.json", "live": { "slug": "amazon-location", "probe": { "target": "https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:09.616921555Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 394, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 269, "p95ms24h": 361, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7420, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 50, 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"2026-11-07T14:05:18.263690376Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "57dff2a88a23" }, { "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:00:02.589087884Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:22:49.376396018Z", "fingerprint": "e7280b5141f2" } ], "github": { "repo": "aws-geospatial/amazon-location-agent-context", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:33:04.302845017Z", "stars": 7, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-09-11T18:18:23Z", "openIssues": 0, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 9, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 33, "success": 33, "failure": 0, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-09-11T18:29:49Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:09.616921555Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon Location Service scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Woosmap's 59.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "woosmap", "name": "Woosmap", "vendor": "WOOSMAP SAS", "vendorUrl": "https://www.woosmap.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "maps", "summary": "Woosmap is a French location platform with REST APIs for address autocomplete and geocoding (Localities), store search, distance and routing, geolocation, indoor maps and map display, plus a hosted MCP server for AI assistants.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woosmap", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woosmap.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woosmap.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/woosmap.json", "dns": "woosmap.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.woosmap.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Keys from the Woosmap Console after a browser signup. Public keys (woos-...) are read-only and must be restricted to domains or IPs. Private keys are read-only or read and write, fixed at creation, restricted by IP, iOS or Android, and sent as the X-Api-Key header or the private_key query parameter. The MCP server takes a private key in the X-Api-Key header.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan up to 10,000 API requests a month with no credit card. Pro uses public volume tiers per API, shown in a calculator, and can be bought through AWS Marketplace. Enterprise is by quote with volume discounts, data caching options and a 99.9% SLA.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI spec, llms.txt or pricing page (checked 2026-11-06). The spec documents a 402 response for billing, not a payment protocol.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.woosmap.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.woosmap.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.woosmap.com/assets/woosmap-openapi3.json", "capabilities": [ "geo.geocode", "geo.reverse", "geo.places", "geo.routing", "geo.tiles" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "api-key", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "llms-txt", "openapi", "official", "status-page", "enterprise", "sla", "eu", "android", "ios", "closed-source" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 704, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 26, "payments": 30, "reliability": 78, "schema": 81, "security": 43, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Woosmap publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt with Markdown pages, per-endpoint rate limits and 429 retry rules, plus a hosted nine-tool MCP server. No changelog, security.txt, API data retention statement or readable per-request price was found, and private keys can travel in the query string.", "bestFor": "Store locators, address autocomplete and distance for retail and logistics teams that keep their own location data in the platform, with an MCP server for agents.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 47 paths, llms.txt routing index and Markdown twins of every page", "Per-endpoint rate limits with RateLimit headers and explicit 429 retry rules and sample code", "Hosted MCP server at api.woosmap.com/mcp with nine tools, including search over the customer's own store data", "Read-only and read/write private keys with IP, iOS or Android restrictions and an X-Api-Key header", "Free plan of 10,000 requests a month with no card" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public changelog or release notes for the APIs", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found", "The privacy policy covers the website only, with nothing on API data retention", "Per-request prices aren't readable without the script-driven calculator", "`private_key` in the query string is documented and is the spec's default scheme" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the private key in the X-Api-Key header, not the private_key query parameter", "Use a read-only private key for the MCP server unless the task writes stores or datasets", "On 429 wait the `t` seconds from the RateLimit header, retry at most three times, and pause batches when `r` reaches 0", "Use find_stores_nearby for the customer's own locations and find_nearby for public POIs", "Read endpoint parameters from the /api-reference/ Markdown pages, which llms.txt marks as authoritative" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 26, "payments": 30, "reliability": 78, "schema": 81, "security": 43, "transparency": 31 }, "provenanceScore": 76, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H \"X-Api-Key: $WOOSMAP_PRIVATE_KEY\" \"https://api.woosmap.com/localities/geocode?address=Place+de+la+Comedie+Montpellier\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "woosmap": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://api.woosmap.com/mcp", "--header", "X-Api-Key: PRIVATE_KEY" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/geo.geocode", "tool": "https://letme.dev/woosmap" }, "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "WOOSMAP SAS", "domain": "woosmap.com", "domainRegistered": "2010-06-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.woosmap.com/policies/terms-online", "privacy": "https://www.woosmap.com/policies/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.woosmap.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The online terms name WOOSMAP, a French SAS at 5 rue du Plan du Palais, 34000 Montpellier, RCS Montpellier 983 770 405, represented by its CEO Jean-Thomas Rouzin. The legal notice (effective 1 July 2024) gives SAS capital of €10,821,200 and AWS as the site host.", "status.woosmap.com's robots.txt disallows /api/ and /embed/. A request to /api/v2/incidents.json was sent by mistake on 6 November 2026 before robots.txt was read; its contents are not used anywhere in this listing.", "www.woosmap.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "No public API changelog was found. developers.woosmap.com/changelog/ and /release-notes/ return 404.", "RDAP gives woosmap.com a registration date of 4 June 2010. robots.txt on www.woosmap.com and developers.woosmap.com allows these pages, and the developer site's robots.txt allows llms.txt by name." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woosmap.json", "live": { "slug": "woosmap", "probe": { "target": "https://api.woosmap.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:21:05.894098339Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 219, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 48, "p95ms24h": 118, "samples24h": 200, "samples30d": 200, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.woosmap.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T18:22:11.709282208Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://woosmap.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:21.81706489Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.woosmap.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:34:23.501072242Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.woosmap.com/policies/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:37:14.116262014Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "99523833ae5e" }, { "url": "https://www.woosmap.com/policies/terms-online", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:37:19.402817389Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6252e1bc3d91" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:22:11.709282208Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 34, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "amazon-location", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a closed service, by the listing's own service models, as the S3 re-check of 1 November read models/s3. The newest API change is still the `geo-maps` model on 17 August 2026 (point-of-interest density and category filters on maps), 76 days before the check. The models repository had commits to 30 October, none touching the `geo-places`, `geo-routes`, `geo-maps` or `location` models (20 of 30). In the last 90 days we found that one model change plus two releases of the agent context package, v1.1.0 on 6 August and v1.2.0 on 11 September 2026, with no later tag. The two package releases are agent guidance for the service, not changes to it, so half, as manifold-mcp's skills releases were read (10 of 20). AWS What's New posts for the service run to 2 April 2026 (none in the feed's 100 items from 20 to 30 October), re:Post and paid support exist, and the agent context repository had no open issues on 8 October (10 of 15). Official SDKs are current, the aws-sdk-js-v3 release v3.1161.0 and boto3 1.43.123, both tagged 30 October 2026 (15). SDKs regenerate from the model on AWS's release train, CI not checked (5 of 10). 20 + 10 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 60.", "b": "No dated API release, changelog or release note found. The newest dated activity we saw is the public woosmap-samples repository on 16 September 2026, which isn't an API release (10). No dated changes to count in the last 90 days (0). Support by email and a support centre, with no public changelog (5). Official JavaScript, iOS and Android SDKs exist, but we couldn't check their versions because the GitHub API was rate-limited and two SDK repository names didn't resolve; the MCP server isn't in the official MCP registry (8). The samples carry tests, per the rate-limits page (3). 10+0+5+8+3 = 26." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 26 } }, { "by": 33, "category": "security", "leads": "amazon-location", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Three credential routes, SigV4 with IAM, Amazon Cognito, and API keys limited to named actions and resources with optional expiry and referrer or app restrictions, which earns 30 (the API key page re-read on 1 November). Less 10 because the API key is sent in the `key` query parameter, the only documented way to present it (20). API keys reach only read calls on Maps, Places and Routes, and IAM policies scope each action and resource (18 of 20). Results carry place names and third-party map data, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation (5 of 15). CloudTrail records management events by default and data events on request, and CloudWatch reports usage by `ApiKeyName` (15). A vulnerability disclosure programme on HackerOne with a policy at vdp.aws.security, public security bulletins (none from 17 October to 1 November names Amazon Location), audit reports in AWS Artifact, Amazon Location Service in SOC 1, 2 and 3 scope on the list updated 11 August 2026 (per the 17 October check), and a FedRAMP High announcement of 28 October 2024. The aws.amazon.com security.txt, re-read on 1 November, expires on 16 October 2027. No paid bug bounty was found, so 2 points stay held back, as on the S3, SES, Polly and Secrets Manager re-checks of 17 October and the S3 re-check of 1 November (18 of 20). 20 + 18 + 5 + 15 + 18 = 76.", "b": "Public keys are read-only and must carry a domain or IP restriction. Private keys are read-only or read and write (fixed at creation), restricted by IP, iOS or Android, and can go in an X-Api-Key header. Less 10 because `private_key` in the query string is a documented option and the default in the spec (17). Read-only keys and the read/write split give least privilege; no confirmation step on dataset deletes was found (16). find_nearby and get_place_details return public POI data, ratings and opening hours, with no prompt-injection guidance (7). Console usage per project wasn't checked (3). www.woosmap.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and we found no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification (0). 17+16+7+3+0 = 43." }, "scores": { "a": 76, "b": 43 } }, { "by": 23, "category": "transparency", "leads": "amazon-location", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service under the AWS Service Terms (last updated 30 October 2026, re-read on 1 November), whose section 82 sets out storage, caching and attribution rules in detail (15 of 30). The guide says device positions are kept 30 days, geofences until deleted, and that queries are stripped of customer metadata before they go to data providers (per the 8 October check). Section 82.1 agrees and adds that providers may process requests outside the chosen region. No retention period was found for Places and Routes requests (20 of 30). Section 82.3 still allows AWS to change or drop a provider or feature on notice \"where practicable\", and no dated deprecation notice or end date for the v1 APIs was found (5 of 20). AWS's sub-processor page, re-read on 1 November (last updated 30 October 2026), lists Esri for Amazon Location in Australia, Germany and the USA and Grabtaxi Holdings and HERE North America in Ireland, Japan, Singapore and the USA, says processing happens in the customer's selected Regions and the providers' locations, and promises 30 days' notice of a new sub-processor. The region is chosen per request (20 of 20, as for S3, SES and Secrets Manager). 15 + 20 + 5 + 20 = 60.", "b": "Editorial half only. Closed service under online terms that name WOOSMAP SAS of Montpellier and the Commercial Court of Paris (15). The privacy policy covers website visitors only, and we found no statement on how long API request data is kept (5). The pricing page says the Address API is 'being deprecated for Pro Plan subscriptions', with no date (5). The legal notice says the site is hosted by Amazon Web Services; no sub-processor list or data location for the APIs was found (6). 15+5+5+6 = 31." }, "scores": { "a": 77, "b": 54 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "reliability", "leads": "amazon-location", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Hosted reading. AWS Health Dashboard with a feed per service and region (20). The Amazon Location feeds for us-east-1 and eu-west-1 held no events on 1 November 2026 (last built 31 October), and the dashboard's event history, re-read on 1 November, names Amazon Location in no event. Its oldest event is the us-east-1 one of 28 October 2025, the open Middle East events of March 2026 don't list it, and the newest update is the API Gateway us-west-2 event of 30 October 2026. The public dashboard lists only broad events, so a clean feed says less than a small vendor's detailed page (30). Default rates published per operation, re-read on 1 November, 100 a second for each Places call, 20 for `CalculateRoutes`, isolines and `SnapToRoads`, 5 for `CalculateRouteMatrix` and `OptimizeWaypoints`, with a burst of 80 per cent (the burst rule per the 8 October check) (15). Throttling returns `ThrottlingException` with HTTP 429, marked retryable in the service model, and every v2 call is a read, but the guide gives no backoff or `Retry-After` guidance (10 of 15). Amazon Location SLA at 99.9 per cent monthly uptime per region (last updated 5 May 2022, re-read on 1 November) (10). GA (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 95.", "b": "Hosted lines. Atlassian Statuspage at status.woosmap.com with seven components (Localities, Store Search, Geolocation, Distance, Address, Map and Indoor APIs) (20). The status home page lists no incidents from 23 October to 6 November 2026. The full history page loads by script and the site's robots.txt disallows /api/, so the rest of the 90 days wasn't read and the line is held between the unreadable and minor tiers (10). Each endpoint's reference states its own rate limit, such as 50 a second, shared by a project's keys (15). Every response carries RateLimit-Policy and RateLimit headers, and the rate-limits page says to wait `t` seconds after a 429, retry at most three times and back off 1, 2 and 4 seconds when the header is missing, with sample code (15). A 99.9% SLA on the Enterprise plan per the pricing page; we didn't read its terms (8). GA (10). 20+10+15+15+8+10 = 78." }, "scores": { "a": 95, "b": 78 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "amazon-location", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "API reading of the checklist. Places responses stay at the core fields unless `AdditionalFeatures` asks for more, and `MaxResults` caps the count, but there is no field selection and route responses can reach the 6 MB limit (20 of 25). `MaxResults` on six of seven Places calls, `NextToken` on `SearchText` and `SearchNearby`, and filters by country, bounding box and place type (18 of 20). Four typed errors per API, with a reason and field list on `ValidationException` (17 of 20). Every v2 operation is marked read-only in the model, so retries are safe. No hints apply to a plain API (18 of 20). One required field or none on most calls, an API key that avoids SigV4 signing, and SDKs on npm and PyPI among others (15).", "b": "API reading, with the hosted MCP server's nine tools as a second surface. Localities and Stores responses can be narrowed by type, components and fields, and the MCP set is small (20). Store search takes query filters, radius and paging, and the Distance Matrix has an async mode for large jobs (17). Documented error codes including 402 for billing and 429 with reset timing (17). Reads are safe to retry, but no idempotency key was found for the Datasets and Stores write endpoints, and the MCP docs don't mention tool annotations (10). Official JavaScript, iOS and Android SDKs and samples in Python and JavaScript, with few required parameters (12). 20+17+17+10+12 = 76." }, "scores": { "a": 88, "b": 76 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "schema", "leads": "amazon-location", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "The Smithy service models for `geo-places`, `geo-routes`, `geo-maps` and `location` (API version 2020-11-19) are public in aws/api-models-aws and in every AWS SDK, a machine-readable contract in the role OpenAPI plays (25). llms.txt for the developer guide, a Markdown twin of each page and the whole guide as `full.md` (10). A choose-an-API page and per-operation pages with use cases say when each call fits, with less on when not to use one (15 of 20). Inputs carry enums and ranges, such as `MaxResults` 1 to 100 and `QueryText` up to 200 characters (15). How-to pages give sample requests, responses, cURL and CLI commands, and each action lists its errors with HTTP codes, but the `ValidationException` fields are documented as \"Test stub\" (12 of 15). Versioned paths (`/v2/`), yet the document history, re-read on 1 November, still has one entry, dated 31 October 2024, and changes are announced only in AWS What's New posts (10 of 15).", "b": "OpenAPI 3.1 spec, version 1.46.3, with 47 paths across Localities, Stores, Distance, Datasets, Indoor, Map and what3words endpoints (25). llms.txt as a routing index, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every page (10). llms.txt says which pages are authoritative for parameters and which explain products, and endpoint pages describe purpose, with little on when not to call one (15). Typed parameters from the spec with enums and required fields (13). The spec documents 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 409, 422 and 429 responses, and pages carry examples (13). The spec is versioned, but no public changelog or release notes were found (developers.woosmap.com/changelog/ and /release-notes/ return 404) (5). 25+10+15+13+13+5 = 81." }, "scores": { "a": 87, "b": 81 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "WOOSMAP SAS", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "b": "https://api.woosmap.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.50 per 1,000 requests", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for geocoding" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and AWS Service Terms. The AWS SDK clients and the agent context package on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "9", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-17", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "2024-07-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "427k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Amazon Location Service scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Woosmap's 59.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Location Service or Woosmap?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Amazon Location Service and Woosmap need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Amazon Location Service has a hosted endpoint at https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Woosmap at https://api.woosmap.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Amazon Location Service and Woosmap without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 95 against 78", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 81", "Agent ergonomics, 88 against 76", "Security \u0026 auth, 76 against 43", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 26", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 54" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "Operators already on AWS who want geocoding, places and routing inside IAM, CloudTrail and one bill, with HERE data and GrabMaps for Southeast Asia.", "slug": "amazon-location", "watchFor": "The API key is sent as the `key` query parameter, the only documented way to present it" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Store locators, address autocomplete and distance for retail and logistics teams that keep their 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-maps-platform-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/here-location-services-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "HERE Location Services vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/here-location-services-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "LocationIQ vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/locationiq-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mapbox-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "Mapbox APIs + MCP vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mapbox-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mapquest-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "MapQuest vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mapquest-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/maptiler-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "MapTiler Cloud vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/maptiler-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nominatim-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "Nominatim vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nominatim-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencage-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "OpenCage Geocoding API vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencage-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/radar-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "Radar vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/radar-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/stadia-maps-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "Stadia Maps vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/stadia-maps-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomtom-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "TomTom Maps APIs + MCP vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomtom-vs-woosmap" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nextbillion-vs-woosmap.json", "title": "NextBillion.ai vs Woosmap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nextbillion-vs-woosmap" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "amazon-location": 95, "by": 17, "edge": "amazon-location", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "woosmap": 78 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "amazon-location": 87, "by": 6, "edge": "amazon-location", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "woosmap": 81 }, { "amazon-location": 88, "by": 12, "edge": "amazon-location", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "woosmap": 76 }, { "amazon-location": 76, "by": 33, "edge": "amazon-location", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "woosmap": 43 }, { "amazon-location": 30, "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "woosmap": 30 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "amazon-location": 60, "by": 34, "edge": "amazon-location", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "woosmap": 26 }, { "amazon-location": 77, "by": 23, "edge": "amazon-location", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "woosmap": 54 } ], "summary": "Amazon Location Service scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Woosmap's 59.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do geocoding.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "amazon-location": "Places, Routes and Maps calls work over plain HTTPS with an API key limited to named actions, and every one of the 17 operations is read-only with typed inputs. Access starts with an AWS account a person opens, the key travels in the URL query string, and stored results cost eight times the single-use rate.", "woosmap": "Woosmap publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt with Markdown pages, per-endpoint rate limits and 429 retry rules, plus a hosted nine-tool MCP server. No changelog, security.txt, API data retention statement or readable per-request price was found, and private keys can travel in the query string." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-location-vs-woosmap", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-location-vs-woosmap.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-location-vs-woosmap.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-location-vs-woosmap.min.md" }, "markdown": "Amazon Location Service scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Woosmap's 59.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do geocoding.\n\n- Amazon Location Service: grade BB, 76.5/100, rank #43 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-location.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-location.json\n- Woosmap: grade C, 59.4/100, rank #704 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woosmap.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/woosmap.json\n- Best maps, geocoding and places APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/maps/index.md\n- All 153 maps comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/maps/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Location Service (BB)\n\nGood for: Operators already on AWS who want geocoding, places and routing inside IAM, CloudTrail and one bill, with HERE data and GrabMaps for Southeast Asia.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 95 against 78\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 81\n- Agent ergonomics, 88 against 76\n- Security \u0026 auth, 76 against 43\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 26\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 54\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: The API key is sent as the `key` query parameter, the only documented way to present it\n\n### Woosmap (C)\n\nGood for: Store locators, address autocomplete and distance for retail and logistics teams that keep their own location data in the platform, with an MCP server for agents.\n\nWatch for: No public changelog or release notes for the APIs\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Amazon Location Service +34\n\n- Amazon Location Service (60): Read as a closed service, by the listing's own service models, as the S3 re-check of 1 November read models/s3. The newest API change is still the `geo-maps` model on 17 August 2026 (point-of-interest density and category filters on maps), 76 days before the check. The models repository had commits to 30 October, none touching the `geo-places`, `geo-routes`, `geo-maps` or `location` models (20 of 30). In the last 90 days we found that one model change plus two releases of the agent context package, v1.1.0 on 6 August and v1.2.0 on 11 September 2026, with no later tag. The two package releases are agent guidance for the service, not changes to it, so half, as manifold-mcp's skills releases were read (10 of 20). AWS What's New posts for the service run to 2 April 2026 (none in the feed's 100 items from 20 to 30 October), re:Post and paid support exist, and the agent context repository had no open issues on 8 October (10 of 15). Official SDKs are current, the aws-sdk-js-v3 release v3.1161.0 and boto3 1.43.123, both tagged 30 October 2026 (15). SDKs regenerate from the model on AWS's release train, CI not checked (5 of 10). 20 + 10 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 60.\n- Woosmap (26): No dated API release, changelog or release note found. The newest dated activity we saw is the public woosmap-samples repository on 16 September 2026, which isn't an API release (10). No dated changes to count in the last 90 days (0). Support by email and a support centre, with no public changelog (5). Official JavaScript, iOS and Android SDKs exist, but we couldn't check their versions because the GitHub API was rate-limited and two SDK repository names didn't resolve; the MCP server isn't in the official MCP registry (8). The samples carry tests, per the rate-limits page (3). 10+0+5+8+3 = 26.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Amazon Location Service +33\n\n- Amazon Location Service (76): Three credential routes, SigV4 with IAM, Amazon Cognito, and API keys limited to named actions and resources with optional expiry and referrer or app restrictions, which earns 30 (the API key page re-read on 1 November). Less 10 because the API key is sent in the `key` query parameter, the only documented way to present it (20). API keys reach only read calls on Maps, Places and Routes, and IAM policies scope each action and resource (18 of 20). Results carry place names and third-party map data, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation (5 of 15). CloudTrail records management events by default and data events on request, and CloudWatch reports usage by `ApiKeyName` (15). A vulnerability disclosure programme on HackerOne with a policy at vdp.aws.security, public security bulletins (none from 17 October to 1 November names Amazon Location), audit reports in AWS Artifact, Amazon Location Service in SOC 1, 2 and 3 scope on the list updated 11 August 2026 (per the 17 October check), and a FedRAMP High announcement of 28 October 2024. The aws.amazon.com security.txt, re-read on 1 November, expires on 16 October 2027. No paid bug bounty was found, so 2 points stay held back, as on the S3, SES, Polly and Secrets Manager re-checks of 17 October and the S3 re-check of 1 November (18 of 20). 20 + 18 + 5 + 15 + 18 = 76.\n- Woosmap (43): Public keys are read-only and must carry a domain or IP restriction. Private keys are read-only or read and write (fixed at creation), restricted by IP, iOS or Android, and can go in an X-Api-Key header. Less 10 because `private_key` in the query string is a documented option and the default in the spec (17). Read-only keys and the read/write split give least privilege; no confirmation step on dataset deletes was found (16). find_nearby and get_place_details return public POI data, ratings and opening hours, with no prompt-injection guidance (7). Console usage per project wasn't checked (3). www.woosmap.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and we found no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification (0). 17+16+7+3+0 = 43.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Amazon Location Service +23\n\n- Amazon Location Service (77): Closed service under the AWS Service Terms (last updated 30 October 2026, re-read on 1 November), whose section 82 sets out storage, caching and attribution rules in detail (15 of 30). The guide says device positions are kept 30 days, geofences until deleted, and that queries are stripped of customer metadata before they go to data providers (per the 8 October check). Section 82.1 agrees and adds that providers may process requests outside the chosen region. No retention period was found for Places and Routes requests (20 of 30). Section 82.3 still allows AWS to change or drop a provider or feature on notice \"where practicable\", and no dated deprecation notice or end date for the v1 APIs was found (5 of 20). AWS's sub-processor page, re-read on 1 November (last updated 30 October 2026), lists Esri for Amazon Location in Australia, Germany and the USA and Grabtaxi Holdings and HERE North America in Ireland, Japan, Singapore and the USA, says processing happens in the customer's selected Regions and the providers' locations, and promises 30 days' notice of a new sub-processor. The region is chosen per request (20 of 20, as for S3, SES and Secrets Manager). 15 + 20 + 5 + 20 = 60.\n- Woosmap (54): Editorial half only. Closed service under online terms that name WOOSMAP SAS of Montpellier and the Commercial Court of Paris (15). The privacy policy covers website visitors only, and we found no statement on how long API request data is kept (5). The pricing page says the Address API is 'being deprecated for Pro Plan subscriptions', with no date (5). The legal notice says the site is hosted by Amazon Web Services; no sub-processor list or data location for the APIs was found (6). 15+5+5+6 = 31.\n\n### Reliability: Amazon Location Service +17\n\n- Amazon Location Service (95): Hosted reading. AWS Health Dashboard with a feed per service and region (20). The Amazon Location feeds for us-east-1 and eu-west-1 held no events on 1 November 2026 (last built 31 October), and the dashboard's event history, re-read on 1 November, names Amazon Location in no event. Its oldest event is the us-east-1 one of 28 October 2025, the open Middle East events of March 2026 don't list it, and the newest update is the API Gateway us-west-2 event of 30 October 2026. The public dashboard lists only broad events, so a clean feed says less than a small vendor's detailed page (30). Default rates published per operation, re-read on 1 November, 100 a second for each Places call, 20 for `CalculateRoutes`, isolines and `SnapToRoads`, 5 for `CalculateRouteMatrix` and `OptimizeWaypoints`, with a burst of 80 per cent (the burst rule per the 8 October check) (15). Throttling returns `ThrottlingException` with HTTP 429, marked retryable in the service model, and every v2 call is a read, but the guide gives no backoff or `Retry-After` guidance (10 of 15). Amazon Location SLA at 99.9 per cent monthly uptime per region (last updated 5 May 2022, re-read on 1 November) (10). GA (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 95.\n- Woosmap (78): Hosted lines. Atlassian Statuspage at status.woosmap.com with seven components (Localities, Store Search, Geolocation, Distance, Address, Map and Indoor APIs) (20). The status home page lists no incidents from 23 October to 6 November 2026. The full history page loads by script and the site's robots.txt disallows /api/, so the rest of the 90 days wasn't read and the line is held between the unreadable and minor tiers (10). Each endpoint's reference states its own rate limit, such as 50 a second, shared by a project's keys (15). Every response carries RateLimit-Policy and RateLimit headers, and the rate-limits page says to wait `t` seconds after a 429, retry at most three times and back off 1, 2 and 4 seconds when the header is missing, with sample code (15). A 99.9% SLA on the Enterprise plan per the pricing page; we didn't read its terms (8). GA (10). 20+10+15+15+8+10 = 78.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Amazon Location Service +12\n\n- Amazon Location Service (88): API reading of the checklist. Places responses stay at the core fields unless `AdditionalFeatures` asks for more, and `MaxResults` caps the count, but there is no field selection and route responses can reach the 6 MB limit (20 of 25). `MaxResults` on six of seven Places calls, `NextToken` on `SearchText` and `SearchNearby`, and filters by country, bounding box and place type (18 of 20). Four typed errors per API, with a reason and field list on `ValidationException` (17 of 20). Every v2 operation is marked read-only in the model, so retries are safe. No hints apply to a plain API (18 of 20). One required field or none on most calls, an API key that avoids SigV4 signing, and SDKs on npm and PyPI among others (15).\n- Woosmap (76): API reading, with the hosted MCP server's nine tools as a second surface. Localities and Stores responses can be narrowed by type, components and fields, and the MCP set is small (20). Store search takes query filters, radius and paging, and the Distance Matrix has an async mode for large jobs (17). Documented error codes including 402 for billing and 429 with reset timing (17). Reads are safe to retry, but no idempotency key was found for the Datasets and Stores write endpoints, and the MCP docs don't mention tool annotations (10). Official JavaScript, iOS and Android SDKs and samples in Python and JavaScript, with few required parameters (12). 20+17+17+10+12 = 76.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Amazon Location Service +6\n\n- Amazon Location Service (87): The Smithy service models for `geo-places`, `geo-routes`, `geo-maps` and `location` (API version 2020-11-19) are public in aws/api-models-aws and in every AWS SDK, a machine-readable contract in the role OpenAPI plays (25). llms.txt for the developer guide, a Markdown twin of each page and the whole guide as `full.md` (10). A choose-an-API page and per-operation pages with use cases say when each call fits, with less on when not to use one (15 of 20). Inputs carry enums and ranges, such as `MaxResults` 1 to 100 and `QueryText` up to 200 characters (15). How-to pages give sample requests, responses, cURL and CLI commands, and each action lists its errors with HTTP codes, but the `ValidationException` fields are documented as \"Test stub\" (12 of 15). Versioned paths (`/v2/`), yet the document history, re-read on 1 November, still has one entry, dated 31 October 2024, and changes are announced only in AWS What's New posts (10 of 15).\n- Woosmap (81): OpenAPI 3.1 spec, version 1.46.3, with 47 paths across Localities, Stores, Distance, Datasets, Indoor, Map and what3words endpoints (25). llms.txt as a routing index, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every page (10). llms.txt says which pages are authoritative for parameters and which explain products, and endpoint pages describe purpose, with little on when not to call one (15). Typed parameters from the spec with enums and required fields (13). The spec documents 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 409, 422 and 429 responses, and pages carry examples (13). The spec is versioned, but no public changelog or release notes were found (developers.woosmap.com/changelog/ and /release-notes/ return 404) (5). 25+10+15+13+13+5 = 81.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Location Service | Woosmap | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 95 | 78 | Amazon Location Service +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 81 | Amazon Location Service +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 76 | Amazon Location Service +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 76 | 43 | Amazon Location Service +33 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 26 | Amazon Location Service +34 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 54 | Amazon Location Service +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.5 · BB** | **59.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Location Service | Woosmap |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | WOOSMAP SAS |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.woosmap.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for geocoding | $0.50 per 1,000 requests | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and AWS Service Terms. The AWS SDK clients and the agent context package on GitHub are Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 9 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-17 | none |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2024-07-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 427k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Amazon Location Service\n\n- +2.4 on 17 October 2026: security, new evidence, correction\n\n### Woosmap\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Location Service.** Places, Routes and Maps calls work over plain HTTPS with an API key limited to named actions, and every one of the 17 operations is read-only with typed inputs. Access starts with an AWS account a person opens, the key travels in the URL query string, and stored results cost eight times the single-use rate.\n\n**Woosmap.** Woosmap publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt with Markdown pages, per-endpoint rate limits and 429 retry rules, plus a hosted nine-tool MCP server. No changelog, security.txt, API data retention statement or readable per-request price was found, and private keys can travel in the query string.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Location Service\n\n1. Call the v2 endpoints (`places.geo.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com/v2/geocode`, `routes.geo`, `maps.geo`). They need no resource creation, unlike the v1 place index and route calculator calls\n2. Set `IntendedUse` to `Storage` before saving or caching any Places result. The default `SingleUse` results may not be stored under section 82.4 of the AWS Service Terms\n3. Read `PricingBucket` in each response. Requesting `Contact`, `Access`, `TimeZone` or `Phonemes` in `AdditionalFeatures` moves a Places call from $0.50 to $1.50 per 1,000\n4. Keep the API key out of logs and shared URLs, since it travels as `?key=`. Use SigV4 with an IAM role for server-side work, and for the Jobs API, which refuses API keys\n5. Back off on HTTP 429 `ThrottlingException`. The burst allowance is 80 per cent of the per-second rate within any part of a second\n\n### Woosmap\n\n1. Send the private key in the X-Api-Key header, not the private_key query parameter\n2. Use a read-only private key for the MCP server unless the task writes stores or datasets\n3. On 429 wait the `t` seconds from the RateLimit header, retry at most three times, and pause batches when `r` reaches 0\n4. Use find_stores_nearby for the customer's own locations and find_nearby for public POIs\n5. Read endpoint parameters from the /api-reference/ Markdown pages, which llms.txt marks as authoritative\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Location Service or Woosmap?\n\nAmazon Location Service scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Woosmap's 59.4 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Amazon Location Service and Woosmap need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Amazon Location Service and Woosmap without installing anything?\n\nYes. Amazon Location Service has a hosted endpoint at https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Woosmap at https://api.woosmap.com/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-location-vs-woosmap.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-location-vs-woosmap.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"amazon-location\", \"b\": \"woosmap\"}`. 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