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Amazon Location Migration SDK

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The Amazon Location Migration SDK provides a bridge that allows you to migrate existing applications from Google Maps to Amazon Location. The Migration SDK provides an option for your application built using the Google Maps SDK for JavaScript to use Amazon Location Service without needing to rewrite any of the application or business logic if Amazon Location supports the capabilities used. Customers can compare their current Google Maps API usage with the Migration SDK’s list of supported APIs to determine if the Migration SDK is right for them. The Migration SDK will receive updates as Amazon Location Service extends its Maps/Places/Routes feature set.

Usage

In order to use the SDK, you will first need to create Amazon Location Service resources based on what kinds of Google Maps API calls your application uses. Please follow the instructions linked below based on your applications needs:

Once you have created your resources, you can create an API key and give it access to the resources you've created:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/using-apikeys.html

Now that you have your resources and API key, you can replace your Google Maps JavaScript API import with the SDK. Here are examples based on which Google import method your application uses:

Dynamic Library Import

If your application uses the dynamic library import method, your current import looks something like this:

<script>
  (g=>{var h,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});var d=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=new Set,e=new URLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=new Promise(async(f,n)=>{await (a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(k in g)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})({
    key: "{{YOUR_API_KEY}}",
    v: "weekly",
    // Use the 'v' parameter to indicate the version to use (weekly, beta, alpha, etc.).
    // Add other bootstrap parameters as needed, using camel case.
  });
</script>

To use the migration SDK, you replace that line with the following (with your AWS region, resource name(s) and API key filled in):

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@aws/amazon-location-migration-sdk/dist/amazonLocationMigrationSDK.min.js?region={{REGION}}&map={{MAP_NAME}}&placeIndex={{PLACE_INDEX}}&routeCalculator={{ROUTE_CALCULATOR}}&apiKey={{AMAZON_LOCATION_API_KEY}}"></script>

If there are any resources that your application doesn't use, you can omit those query parameters. Only the region and apiKey are required.

The import is the only change you need to make in your client code. The rest of your code will function as-is but will now be making Amazon Location Service API requests, such as the example below:

let map;

async function initMap() {
  const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps");

  map = new Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    center: { lat: 30.268193, lng: -97.7457518 },
    zoom: 8,
  });
}

initMap();

Direct Script Loading Tag (Legacy)

If your application uses the legacy direct script loading tag, your current import looks something like this:

<script
  async
  src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key={{YOUR_API_KEY}}&loading=async&callback=initMap&libraries=places"
></script>

To use the migration SDK, you replace that line with the following (with your AWS region, resource name(s) and API key filled in):

<script
  async
  src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@aws/amazon-location-migration-sdk/dist/amazonLocationMigrationSDK.min.js?callback=initMap&region={{REGION}}&map={{MAP_NAME}}&placeIndex={{PLACE_INDEX}}&routeCalculator={{ROUTE_CALCULATOR}}&apiKey={{AMAZON_LOCATION_API_KEY}}"
></script>

If there are any resources that your application doesn't use, you can omit those query parameters. Only the region and apiKey are required.

The import is the only change you need to make in your client code. The rest of your code will function as-is but will now be making Amazon Location Service API requests, such as the example below:

let map;

function initMap() {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    center: { lat: 30.268193, lng: -97.7457518 },
    zoom: 8,
  });
}

window.initMap = initMap;

Supported Google APIs

For a full overview of supported Google Maps APIs and current limitations, please see the Supported APIs documentation.

Contributing

We welcome community contributions and pull requests. See CONTRIBUTING for information on how to set up a development environment, run the examples and submit code.

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.