Cartography Protips: Creating Basemaps for Amazon Location Service
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Amazon Location Service commissions produce four map styles built on OpenStreetMap vector tiles and a Stamen cartographic process, split into reference vs data-visualization variants. Design choices include dropping minor roads until higher zooms, narrowing road classes, switching many road renders to white in light styles, and pruning label classes to create a global information hierarchy. The result is four quieter basemaps delivered for AWS customers and tested in mockups to support dashboards and dense overlays.
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