GrabMaps for Amazon Location Service in Southeast Asia
Through Amazon Location Service GrabMaps provides hyperlocal geocoding, routing, and mapping data for Southeast Asia through Amazon Location Service. Built from millions of daily deliveries and rides across eight countries and 500+ cities, GrabMaps captures back alleys, motorcycle-accessible routes, and hard-to-find places that conventional maps miss. Access over 50 million places with local language search, traffic-enabled routing with motorcycle mode, and map data refreshed daily by a local operations team of over 1,000 members — all through the same Amazon Location Service APIs you already use.
Use Cases
See how developers use GrabMaps data to solve real-world challenges across Southeast Asia.
Convert addresses into geographic coordinates using geocoding and calculate the fastest delivery route based on real-time traffic conditions. GrabMaps routing considers local road characteristics, motorcycle-accessible paths, and time-of-day traffic patterns to provide accurate ETAs for food delivery, e-commerce logistics, and courier services across Southeast Asia.
Build ride-hailing and mobility applications with routing optimized for Southeast Asian roads. GrabMaps supports motorcycle routing — essential in markets where two-wheelers are the primary mode of transportation. Calculate routes through narrow streets and alleyways that car-only routing engines miss.
Help your customers find nearby businesses, restaurants, and points of interest across Southeast Asia. Search by name, category, or location and retrieve place details including addresses, coordinates, contact information, and operating hours from GrabMaps' database of over 50 million places.
Normalize and standardize your customer address database for Southeast Asian markets using the Geocode API. Address systems in the region vary significantly between countries — GrabMaps returns structured address components validated against real-world delivery data, improving accuracy for analytics, marketing, and operational workflows.
Key benefits
GrabMaps Coverage
+ Cities
Countries
GrabMaps Capabilities
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Capability
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APIs
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Coverage
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Maps
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GetTile, GetStyleDescriptor |
Vector tiles at multiple zoom levels; Grab Standard Light and Dark styles |
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Places Search and Geocode
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SearchText, Suggest, GetPlace |
Geocode addresses, search 50M+ places across Southeast Asia with free-form and structured queries, and surface results with autocomplete — all with hyperlocal precision in 500+ cities across eight countries. |
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Reverse Geocoding
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Reverse Geocode |
Convert coordinates to addresses with hyperlocal precision — resolve latitude/longitude pairs to structured addresses, street names, and nearby places across 500+ cities in Southeast Asia. |
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Routes
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CalculateRoutes, CalculateRouteMatrix |
Point-to-point and matrix routing; car, motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian modes; real-time traffic and congestion models; toll, ferry, and highway avoidance. |
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, operating across the deliveries, mobility and digital financial services sectors in over 500 cities in eight countries. We invest heavily in collecting and refreshing the mapping data that fuels our operations. We are excited to make this data available to other organizations through our collaboration with AWS
— Philipp Kandal, Chief Product Officer, Grab
Customer Stories and Case Studies
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is GrabMaps?
GrabMaps is a mapping data provider built by Grab, Southeast Asia's leading superapp. GrabMaps extracts and validates location data daily from millions of delivery and ride operations across eight countries — Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Through Amazon Location Service, you can access GrabMaps geocoding, routing, search, and map data for your applications.
What countries does GrabMaps cover?
GrabMaps covers eight Southeast Asian countries and 500+ cities: Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Cambodia. The data includes over 50 million places, addresses, and points of interest across the region, with daily updates from real-world delivery and ride operations. A local operations team of over 1,000 members and 200+ specialists maintains accuracy for each country.
Does GrabMaps support motorcycle and two-wheeler routing?
Yes. GrabMaps routing supports car, motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian travel modes. Motorcycle routing is optimized for Southeast Asian road conditions, including narrow streets, alleyways, and paths that car-only routing engines miss. Routes are calculated using real-time traffic data and time-of-day traffic patterns.
What is hyperlocal mapping?
Hyperlocal mapping captures location data at a very granular level — individual buildings, back alleys, informal addresses, and motorcycle-accessible paths that conventional mapping providers often miss. GrabMaps builds hyperlocal data from community-based mapping, using real-time feedback from millions of drivers and delivery partners who navigate Southeast Asian streets daily.
How is GrabMaps different from other mapping providers in Southeast Asia?
GrabMaps is built from real-world delivery and ride data across Southeast Asia, not satellite imagery or street-level surveys alone. This means the data reflects how people actually navigate — including motorcycle routes, back alleys, and informal addresses. A local operations team of over 1,000 members and 200+ specialists maintains accuracy for each country, with local language search and traffic congestion models tailored to regional conditions. GrabMaps processes over 800 billion searches, suggestions, trips, and trends per month, and the data is refreshed daily. Through Amazon Location Service, you access this data with the same APIs, SDKs, and pricing model as any other AWS service.