Amazon Location Service

by awslabs

Amazon Location Service is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by awslabs in agent-plugins.

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Install Amazon Location Service

Copy Amazon Location Service into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins/tree/main/plugins/amazon-location-service/skills/amazon-location-service ~/.claude/skills/amazon-location-service

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/amazon-location-service/skills/amazon-location-service/SKILL.md in awslabs/agent-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/amazon-location-service
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Amazon Location Service does

Amazon Location Service integrates AWS geospatial APIs for maps, geocoding, routing, places search, geofences, and tracking. Use it when building location-aware applications or adding map and location features to AWS apps.

Amazon Location Service is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Amazon Location Service comes from a repository tagged agent-plugins, agent-skills, agents, aws and coding-agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Overview

Amazon Location Service provides geospatial APIs for maps, geocoding, routing, places search, geofencing, and tracking. Prefer the bundled JavaScript client (@aws/amazon-location-client) for web development and use resourceless API operations to avoid managing AWS resources.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

Building location-aware web or mobile applications
Working with Amazon Location Service projects
Implementing maps, geocoding, routing, or places search
Adding geofencing or device tracking functionality
Integrating geospatial features into AWS applications

Do NOT use this skill for:

Google Maps, Mapbox, or Leaflet-with-OSM projects (unless migrating to Amazon Location)
Generic GIS operations without AWS context
Non-AWS geospatial services

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Amazon Location Service

What else does awslabs publish alongside Amazon Location Service?
Amazon Location Service is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from awslabs/agent-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWS Architecture Diagram, AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda Durable Functions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Amazon Location Service does, and is maintained by awslabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the awslabs/agent-plugins page.
How does Amazon Location Service compare to other Automation skills?
Amazon Location Service ranks #945 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Amazon Location Service against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.