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.

A Conversation Action for Google Assistant users using API.AI to interact with Mapbox services.

Get a route:

• You: Hey Google! Mapbox.
• Google Home: Hi! I'm your Mapbox assistant. What can I do for you today?
• You: I'd like to go from Valencia to Barcelona.
• Google Home: The route from Valencia to Barcelona is 350756.4 meters long and it will take you around 197.88 minutes.

• Mapbox Directions API
• Mapbox Geocoding API
• API.AI
• The Conversation Action (mapboxAssistant.js) runs on AWS Lambda.

• API.AI

1. Create Your Conversational AI Assistant

2. Create A User Intent

• Amazon AWS

3. Create an Amazon IAM User

4. Create A Lambda Function

5. Code Your Lambda Function (e.g. mapboxAssistant.js)

6. Create an Endpoint in API Gateway

• API.AI

7. Use Your New API for Intent Fulfillment

8. Test On The Google Home