Create Route Calculator

locationservice_create_route_calculator

R Documentation

Creates a route calculator resource in your Amazon Web Services account

Description

Creates a route calculator resource in your Amazon Web Services account.

You can send requests to a route calculator resource to estimate travel time, distance, and get directions. A route calculator sources traffic and road network data from your chosen data provider.

If your application is tracking or routing assets you use in your business, such as delivery vehicles or employees, you must not use Esri as your geolocation provider. See section 82 of the Amazon Web Services service terms for more details.

Usage

locationservice_create_route_calculator(CalculatorName, DataSource,
  PricingPlan, Description, Tags)

Arguments

CalculatorName

[required] The name of the route calculator resource.

Requirements:

• Can use alphanumeric characters (A–Z, a–z, 0–9) , hyphens (-), periods (.), and underscores (_).

• Must be a unique Route calculator resource name.

• No spaces allowed. For example, ExampleRouteCalculator.

DataSource

[required] Specifies the data provider of traffic and road network data.

This field is case-sensitive. Enter the valid values as shown. For example, entering HERE returns an error.

Valid values include:

• Esri – For additional information about Esri's coverage in your region of interest, see Esri details on street networks and traffic coverage.

  Route calculators that use Esri as a data source only calculate routes that are shorter than 400 km.

• Grab – Grab provides routing functionality for Southeast Asia. For additional information about GrabMaps' coverage, see GrabMaps countries and areas covered.

• Here – For additional information about HERE Technologies' coverage in your region of interest, see HERE car routing coverage and HERE truck routing coverage.

For additional information , see Data providers on the Amazon Location Service Developer Guide.

PricingPlan

No longer used. If included, the only allowed value is RequestBasedUsage.

Description

The optional description for the route calculator resource.

Tags

Applies one or more tags to the route calculator resource. A tag is a key-value pair helps manage, identify, search, and filter your resources by labelling them.

• For example: { "tag1" : "value1", "tag2" : "value2"}

Format: "key" : "value"

Restrictions:

• Maximum 50 tags per resource

• Each resource tag must be unique with a maximum of one value.

• Maximum key length: 128 Unicode characters in UTF-8

• Maximum value length: 256 Unicode characters in UTF-8

• Can use alphanumeric characters (A–Z, a–z, 0–9), and the following characters: + - = . _ : / @.

• Cannot use "aws:" as a prefix for a key.

Value

A list with the following syntax:

list(
  CalculatorName = "string",
  CalculatorArn = "string",
  CreateTime = as.POSIXct(
    "2015-01-01"
  )
)

Request syntax

svc$create_route_calculator(
  CalculatorName = "string",
  DataSource = "string",
  PricingPlan = "RequestBasedUsage"|"MobileAssetTracking"|"MobileAssetManagement",
  Description = "string",
  Tags = list(
    "string"
  )
)