For its part, Loqate, a global location intelligence specialist, offers its 14,000 business customers the ability to verify, validate, and geocode customer addresses. The GrabMaps location data will allow Loqate, which says it is seeing double-digit growth in e-commerce in Southeast Asia, to offer its customers more accurate addressing to improve service delivery, the company said.
GrabMaps, which was launched in 2022, serves more than 700 cities in eight Southeast Asian countries. It offers food, package, taxi and pay online delivery services.
The company says it powers more than 800 billion API calls each month across search, dispatch, ETA calculations, routing, navigation and others. It says it has helped to add more than 800,000 kilometers of missing roads to OpenStreetMap.
