Location & Mapping

AE-120 Level 1 API Evangelist extension API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA 29 providers 72 API surfaces 13 rated strong or better

Turning addresses and coordinates into maps, places, routes and context.

Location & Mapping (AE-120) is a level-1 business capability in the API Evangelist extension model. The catalog holds 72 API surface(s) from 29 provider(s) that can perform some part of it, 13 of them rated strong or better. Reach is the vendor surface that lands on this capability — it is not a claim about what any particular organisation has deployed.

Where this capability definition comes from. This capability is part of the API Evangelist extension to the business-capability model, written by API Evangelist and licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. API Evangelist capability extension — https://apievangelist.com Audience: consumerb2b It extends, and never modifies, Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet (CC BY 4.0). · Extension provenance and licence

Sub-capabilities

Geocoding AE-120.10API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Converting between addresses and coordinates.

7 providers, 13 API surfaces

Maps & Tiles AE-120.20API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Rendering base maps and map tiles.

1 provider, 3 API surfaces

Routing & Navigation AE-120.30API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Directions, travel times and route optimisation.

8 providers, 14 API surfaces

Places & Points of Interest AE-120.40API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Searchable data about places.

9 providers, 13 API surfaces

Device & IP Location AE-120.50API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Locating a device or network address.

6 providers, 6 API surfaces

Location Analytics AE-120.60API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

b2b

Patterns and insight from location data.

7 providers, 17 API surfaces

Elevation & Terrain Data AE-120.70API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

b2bconsumer

Elevation lookups for a coordinate or route from digital elevation models (Open-Elevation, SRTM tiles).

1 provider, 1 API surface

Map Data Contribution & Editing AE-120.80API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Editing open map data from an app under the user's own account: POI edits, notes and GPS trace uploads to OpenStreetMap (Organic Maps, OsmAnd).

no catalog coverage

Providers that reach this capability

Ordered by rating band. Reach means a provider publishes an API surface that can perform some part of this capability — it is not a claim that any particular organisation has deployed it.

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
HEREWaypoints Sequence1 API72.2VonageLocation Retrieval1 API68.2Amazon Location Serviceamazon-location-service-geofencing-apiamazon-location-service-operations-apiamazon-location-service-places-apiamazon-location-service-positions-api5 APIs67.4
Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps
APIFreaks - API Hub for DevelopersIP Geolocation APIs1 API66.2Open Food FactsLocations1 API62.5University of WaterlooLocations1 API62.4SPOTIORoutesV21 API62.3Orange BusinessGeofencing subscriptions1 API62.1ParticleLocation1 API59.6Precisely APIsSegmentation1 API58.0AkkioLocation Intelligence1 API56.4LoadsmartRoutes1 API56.2MastercardSearches1 API55.7
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
PlacerLoyalty ReportsManage POIsRanking ReportsRetail Sales Reports7 APIs53.1LitescrapeApple1 API52.899 Minutossuper-geocoding1 API52.6ShipFinder AIS Data API4 Prediction Dataset1 API52.1PhotoPrismPlaces1 API51.5INRIXMetrics1 API51.4Department of Veterans Affairs (VA Lighthouse)AddressValidation-v31 API50.5PontoFatoBuscarCep2 APIs48.4Base OperationsBase ScoreChange DetectionRadius ChartsSaved Location Charts5 APIs48.2SK TelecomArea InfoVisit2 APIs43.4TrimbleRouting1 API42.3CariqaStations1 API41.1
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
GeoapifyAddress AutocompleteBatch GeocodingBoundariesElevation20 APIs33.3ROOTEChargingGeocodeParkingPlace Search5 APIs31.9GeocodioDistanceGeocodedistance-jobsdistance-matrix5 APIs31.4DatalasticHistorical1 API29.3
This page carries no rating. Capabilities are not rated. A capability is a description of what a business does, not a thing a company publishes, so a Kin Score would have nothing to measure.
The edge table is a Pro feature. This page shows which providers and tags reach Location & Mapping. The underlying tag → capability edges — each with the quoted fragment of the provider's own OpenAPI that evidences it, a calibrated confidence score, and the contract-provenance gate it passed — are available through the API, along with company-level capability maps. Only edges at confidence ≥ 0.7 with evidence found verbatim in the source contract are published at all.

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