GrabMaps To Power Locationbased Services For AWS Customers In Southeast Asia

Grab, Southeast Asia's leading super app, today announced that GrabMaps has become a data provider for Amazon Location Service, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) location service designed to help developers easily and safely maps with interesting places. geocode and route. add tracking and geofencing to your apps.

AWS customers using Amazon Location Service now have access to high-quality regional map data covering over 50 million addresses and points of interest (POIs) from GrabMaps, including Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. Customers can also take advantage of Grab's hyper-local routing and search capabilities tailored to the unique characteristics of the region, from small alleyways and subdivisions to hard-to-reach places.

Many organizations across all industries, including technology, logistics, telecommunications, and government, require location-based services for applications.

Thanks to this collaboration, developers and teams using Amazon's location service can improve or create their own location-based applications using GrabMaps. AWS customers can view the data they need on up-to-date local maps and use search fields that identify end-user addresses and points of interest. Customers can also add route planning and optimization functionality to their apps using GrabMaps' up-to-date traffic and road network information. Users can calculate the fastest routes and provide accurate estimated time of arrival based on parameters such as transportation mode, real-time traffic conditions, departure time, etc., with the ability to avoid toll roads, ferry routes or highways.

Philippe Kandal, Grab Product Director, said: “GrabMaps offers a unique overview of Southeast Asia with exceptional data and functionality in terms of speed, coverage and accuracy. We are excited to partner with AWS's world-class infrastructure to share our capabilities with other companies and help them build services and applications that we hope will better serve Southeast Asia. East. »

Conor McNamara, Managing Director of AWS ASEAN , said, "With the rapid growth of the digital economy in Southeast Asia, access to accurate and cost-effective map data is essential for efficient operation, especially in e-commerce, transport and logistics. GrabMaps integration with Amazon Location Service now provides AWS customers and their end users with up-to-date hyperlocation mapping data for Southeast Asia.

Cost and operational savings from core GrabMaps features are already helping businesses using Amazon Location Service get the most out of their platform. Luce SG is a Singapore-based home services platform that makes it easy for customers to book home and office services, from cleaning to air conditioning services.

Jason Zhang, Director of Luce SG , said, “As we expand into Indonesia and the Philippines, getting reliable maps and route data to accommodate our maintenance personnel has become a challenge, especially with the large number informal workers on the roads. region. Amazon's GrabMaps-based location service has some of the most accurate maps and route data in these regions, helping our customers work more efficiently and improving user experience. With Amazon's location service and GrabMaps powering our delivery and routing, we are confident that we will be able to deliver the same on-time performance in all regions where we operate, including outside of Singapore. »

Amazon Location Service is a location-based service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, points of interest, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to their applications without compromising data quality , user privacy or cost.

GrabMaps, a commercial service originally developed for internal use, has now become a service for Grab services across the region. GrabMaps is built on the principles of community mapping, which makes the service extremely cost effective by providing high quality map data. Using an extensive network of consumers, merchants, drivers and delivery partners, Grab receives and updates map data from millions of orders and trips daily, receiving real-time feedback from partners on road closures, business address changes, etc. 800 billion API calls per month for a variety of services including location, delivery, estimated arrival, routing, navigation, etc. This added more than 800,000 kilometers of missing roads to OpenStreetMap.

To learn more about GrabMaps, follow the link here.

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