On the afternoon of November 8, 2017 Tencent Global Partner Conference was held in Chengdu. In the Innovation • Location & Car Link sub-forum, Tencent Location Services and HERE reached a strategic cooperation. Tencent location services thus ushered in a comprehensive upgrade of products and services, and the ability of international location services has been comprehensively improved.

In recent years, with the increasingly normal travel, study and work abroad, users' demand for overseas location services is growing. Use shared bikes in Singapore, enjoy all-Chinese ground pick-up service in Phuket, order food with Meituan in Japan... When you enjoy these services overseas, you are using location services to provide positioning, retrieval and other services, travel, social, travel, O2O and other categories of APP applications continue to expand, but due to the lack of overseas positioning support, the scope of use of these apps is often greatly limited.

In view of the safety and risks of overseas mapping, domestic developers who intend to go overseas tend to cooperate with domestic location service companies to achieve seamless switching at home and abroad and avoid potential risks.

It is reported that after the strategic cooperation between Tencent Location Services and HERE Map, it will rely on its own huge data ecosystem and professional solutions, integrate the advantages of both technologies and resources, and join hands to expand overseas location services. HERE Maps will open overseas map data to Tencent's location service, providing strong support for domestic developers going overseas.

Tencent is about to open the application for international location service capabilities to developers, developers will enjoy the coverage of global location services through one-stop access, to achieve "one access, access to the world", so as to "make location services everywhere".

HERE Maps is the world's largest provider of digital maps, with 80% market share in the automotive navigation map industry in Europe and the United States. Its core business is to provide location services and solutions to automotive, consumer and enterprise customers through rich map data and a core location platform covering more than 46 million kilometers in approximately 200 countries.

The combination of Tencent location services and HERE maps will undoubtedly help more companies explore overseas markets and provide users with more convenient and efficient services.