{"ref":"capability:location-services","page":"/capabilities/location-services","json":"/capabilities/location-services.json","generated":"2026-10-26","drafted_with_ai":true,"entity":{"id":"location-services","name":"Location services","domain":"data-and-persistence","ecosystems":["btp","cap"],"universal":false,"description":"Putting a place on business data from a location provider: an address turned into coordinates or corrected, a base map to draw on, and a route with its distance and duration between two or more points. Storing geometries in the database and querying them there is [graph, spatial and document data](capability:multi-model-data).","short":"Geocoding, base maps and routes for business data","core_coverage":{"state":"core-only","assessed_at":"2026-09-18","what_core_does":"Two SAP-official services answer this on BTP: [SAP HANA Spatial Services for SAP BTP](artifact:btp-hana-spatial-services) puts four APIs in front of third-party location data — geocoding, map tiles, routing and matrix routing — and [SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data](artifact:btp-data-quality-management-location-data) cleanses, geocodes and reverse geocodes address data as a cloud service, with a separate type-ahead API for address suggestions, embeddable directly into a business process or application.","where_it_stops":"Differently, by provider: HANA Spatial Services answers all four — geocoding, map tiles, routing and matrix routing — but its one plan is bring-your-own-licence, so the results come from a third party the customer licenses separately. Data Quality Management answers only address cleansing, geocoding, reverse geocoding and type-ahead suggestions: no map tiles and no routing.","sources":[{"url":"https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/servicecatalog/api/v1/services/2d678101-ad2d-4d97-92fd-717152e52732","title":"SAP Discovery Center — SAP HANA Spatial Services for SAP BTP","checked":"2026-09-15","quote":"You can use the results of this processing through standard APIs to combine geospatial information with business data inside your applications, adding the “where” dimension to your processes."},{"url":"https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/servicecatalog/api/v1/services/2d678101-ad2d-4d97-92fd-717152e52732","title":"SAP Discovery Center — SAP HANA Spatial Services for SAP BTP","checked":"2026-09-15","quote":"This service plan provides access to all of SAP HANA spatial services' APIs via the \"bring your own license\" model. This means that an additional third party service license for the chosen provider will be required."},{"url":"https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/servicecatalog/api/v1/services/5cd7b679-e792-49ef-9a43-91c880dbcfd7","title":"SAP Discovery Center — SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data","checked":"2026-09-18","quote":"Embed address cleansing and enrichment services within any business process or application so that you can quickly reap the value of complete and accurate address data."},{"url":"https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/servicecatalog/api/v1/services/5cd7b679-e792-49ef-9a43-91c880dbcfd7","title":"SAP Discovery Center — SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data","checked":"2026-09-18","quote":"Obtain the latitude and longitude for an address. And obtain the nearest address(es) for a latitude and longitude pair."},{"url":"https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/servicecatalog/api/v1/services/5cd7b679-e792-49ef-9a43-91c880dbcfd7","title":"SAP Discovery Center — SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data","checked":"2026-09-18","quote":"Select from proposed addresses that are displayed as the user is typing to allow faster and more accurate data entry."}],"note":"core_coverage is the BTP assessment, the capability's first ecosystem; CAP has its own slot below. Both providers on BTP are SAP's, so core-only is a assessment of the corpus rather than a quote from the core."},"coverage_by_ecosystem":{"cap":{"state":"community-only","assessed_at":"2026-09-15","community_adds":"[cap-js-geoloc-plugin](artifact:sebsst-cap-js-geoloc-plugin) drives address search, address correction and route calculation from annotations on the model, against configurable providers whose defaults need no API key.","note":"No CAP core source for geocoding or routing was checked; the one artifact on this door is a community plugin."}},"framing_by_ecosystem":{"cap":{"description":"In CAP the concern sits on the model: an annotated address field that searches and corrects itself, and a route whose distance and duration are calculated when its coordinates change."}},"drafted_with_ai":true},"sap_delivery":{"door":"btp","all":{"built_in":[],"documented_pattern":[],"announced":[],"packages":[{"ref":"artifact:btp-data-quality-management-location-data","name":"SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data","json":"/artifacts/btp-data-quality-management-location-data.json"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-hana-spatial-services","name":"SAP HANA Spatial Services for SAP BTP","json":"/artifacts/btp-hana-spatial-services.json"}]},"by_flavor":{}},"edges":{"use_cases":[],"shared_tasks":[],"related_tasks":[],"options":[{"ref":"artifact:sebsst-cap-js-geoloc-plugin","name":"cap-js-geoloc-plugin","json":"/artifacts/sebsst-cap-js-geoloc-plugin.json","ecosystem":"cap","origin_ring":"independent"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-data-quality-management-location-data","name":"SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data","json":"/artifacts/btp-data-quality-management-location-data.json","ecosystem":"btp","origin_ring":"sap-official"},{"ref":"artifact:btp-hana-spatial-services","name":"SAP HANA Spatial Services for SAP BTP","json":"/artifacts/btp-hana-spatial-services.json","ecosystem":"btp","origin_ring":"sap-official"}],"samples":[],"explained_by":[],"normative_context":[]}}