Amazon Maps Terms of Use

Amazon · agreement dated May 29, 2020 · Official agreement

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Content & IP Rights · Context

What the Service provides and where its data comes from

The Service gives access to maps, route and traffic information, satellite and street imagery, business listings, reviews and other related information, which the text calls Map Data. The Service may provide Map Data from multiple sources, including other users. The list of Map Data is open-ended ("and other related information").

Supporting quotations

The Service provides access to maps, route and traffic information, satellite and street imagery, business listings, reviews, and other related information (collectively, "Map Data").
The Service may provide Map Data from multiple sources, including other users

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Sources are described as "multiple sources, including other users"; the other sources are not named.

Not stated here

  • Which sources other than other users supply Map Data is not stated.
  • How content from other users is collected or reviewed is not stated here.

Content & IP Rights · Context

Software is covered by the Conditions of Use

The Service includes Map Data and software for your use in connection with the Service, which the text calls the Software. Terms contained in the Amazon.com Conditions of Use apply to your use of the Software. This text does not itself set out a software license.

Supporting quotations

The Service includes Map Data and software for your use in connection with the Service (the "Software").
apply to your use of the Software.

Not stated here

  • The Conditions of Use are linked but not supplied here, so the software license terms they hold are not known from this document.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

The Service is for personal, non-commercial use

You may use the Service only for personal, non-commercial use. Of the three restrictions in this section, the text attaches its license exception only to the one on vehicle navigation and device uses; it states no exception for this personal-use limit.

Supporting quotations

You may use the Service only for personal, non-commercial use.

Not stated here

  • The text does not define commercial use or give examples.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Do not copy, modify or reuse Map Data or Software outside the Service

You may not copy, modify, or create derivative works of any Map Data or Software. The same sentence continues with "otherwise use the Map Data or Software in any way outside of the Service", with no conjunction before "otherwise"; it most naturally reads as also barring any use of Map Data or Software outside the Service, but the wording is missing a joining word.

Supporting quotations

You may not copy, modify, or create derivative works of any Map Data or Software otherwise use the Map Data or Software in any way outside of the Service.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Drafting gap: no "or" before "otherwise use".

Not stated here

  • Whether ordinary personal viewing, saving or sharing of a route counts as use outside the Service is not stated.