A skill for Amazon Echo to interact with Mapbox services.
Set your home address:
- You:
Alexa, tell Mapbox that my address is <address>.
- Alexa:
Thank you, home address set.
Set your office address:
- You:
Alexa, tell Mapbox that my office address is <address>.
- Alexa:
Thank you, office address set.
Get traffic information:
- You:
Alexa, ask Mapbox how long is my commute.
- Alexa:
Your commute is 3 kilometers long, a 9 minutes drive with current traffic.
Use the Directions API:
- You:
Alexa, ask Mapbox how far is <address>.
- Alexa:
That address is a 4 kilometers drive, 10 minutes with current traffic.
Use the Geocoding API:
- You:
Alexa, ask Mapbox what's popular nearby.
- Alexa:
Have you tried Dupont Circle Fountain, Washington, District of Columbia 20036, United States?
Read the latest post on the blog:
- You:
Alexa, ask Mapbox what's new.
- Alexa:
Over the last week we've published 9 stories, our latest is that David Rhodes published today Bringing real-world places into your game.
- Mapbox Android Services.
- The skill runs on AWS Lambda, session state (user home/work addresses) is stored on AWS S3.
- Build the
.zip
deployment package:make build
. - Output is in
skill/build/distributions/alexa-skill-0.1.zip
. - Upload to AWS Lambda.