Amazon Location Service adds GrabMaps in Southeast Asia

Amazon Location Service adds a new data source in Southeast Asia, GrabMaps, offering maps, search, and routing. Developers building applications in Southeast Asia can display their data on local up-to-date maps, use search boxes to locate end-user addresses and points of interest, and calculate routes using real-time traffic conditions. GrabMaps, an enterprise division of Grab, is built on the principles of community-based mapping that leverages Grab’s consumers, merchants, and fleets of drivers and delivery partners. GrabMaps extracts data on a daily basis from millions of orders and rides, with real-time feedback from partners on traffic, road closures, business address changes and more. This allows GrabMaps to remain highly cost-effective while offering the best quality regional mapping data in accuracy, coverage, and freshness. Today, GrabMaps supports eight Southeast Asian countries: Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand. GrabMaps for Amazon Location Service is available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. To learn more, visit to the [Amazon Location Service Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/grab.html). 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 on data quality, user privacy, or cost. With Amazon Location Service, you retain control of your location data, protecting your privacy and reducing enterprise security risks. Amazon Location Service provides a consistent API across a range of location-based service data providers (Esri, HERE, Open Data Maps, and GrabMaps), all managed through one AWS console.