Tencent Maps

Tencent Maps is an online mapping and navigation service operated by Tencent in China. It provides digital maps, route planning, location search, navigation, and related location-based services through Tencent's map.qq.com website and associated applications and developer interfaces. The service is positioned within Tencent's broader internet ecosystem, where mapping data and location capabilities can support consumer navigation as well as other Tencent products and services. The platform is primarily China-focused. Its consumer functions include searching for places and addresses, viewing road and satellite-related map information where available, planning routes, and obtaining navigation guidance. Its location-services capabilities also include tools intended for businesses and software developers, such as map display, geocoding, route planning, positioning, and other application programming interfaces. Availability and exact functionality can vary by product, region, device, and regulatory requirements. Tencent Maps is a sub-brand rather than an independently listed company. Tencent Holdings is the parent group and provides the corporate, technology, and ecosystem context for the service. Tencent Maps operates in a market that includes other Chinese digital-map and navigation platforms, but the available reference material does not establish a complete ranking, market share, or detailed competitive history. No reliable source in the supplied material confirms the service's original launch year, founding team, or a separate legal entity. The brand's present identity is therefore best understood as Tencent's China-oriented map and location-services offering, combining a public-facing map product with infrastructure and APIs for location-related applications. The official website is the primary source for current product availability and service details.

Tencent Maps is Tencent's branded online mapping and location-services platform for China. The supplied reference material identifies the official service website but does not provide a reliable launch date, founding history, named founders, or a detailed chronology of product development. Accordingly, the brand's early history cannot be dated precisely here. The service belongs to the wider development of internet mapping in China, in which digital maps evolved from simple map browsing and address lookup into integrated search, route planning, navigation, and location-based application infrastructure. Tencent Maps' public-facing role is to help users locate places, examine map information, and plan or follow journeys. Its developer-facing role is to expose mapping and location capabilities for use in software and digital services. As a Tencent sub-brand, Tencent Maps is connected to the parent company's consumer internet, mobile, and technology ecosystem rather than operating as a separately listed public company. This relationship allows the service to function both as a standalone mapping destination and as a location technology layer that can support other Tencent products or third-party applications. The available sources do not establish the precise organizational structure, changes in ownership, or the identity of individual executives responsible for the brand. The service remains China-focused and is subject to the operational and regulatory conditions applicable to digital maps and location services in that market. Its current official web presence is map.qq.com. Because the supplied material contains no verified dated product announcements, campaign records, controversies, acquisitions, or executive appointments specific to Tencent Maps, those parts of the chronology are left unpopulated rather than inferred.

A China-focused digital mapping and navigation platform integrated with Tencent's broader internet and technology ecosystem.

• Digital maps and navigation

  Tencent Maps consumer map service

  The consumer-facing Tencent Maps service provides online map browsing, place and address search, route planning, and navigation-related functions. It is delivered through Tencent's official map website and associated consumer software. Exact features may vary by region, platform, and current product version.

• Mobile navigation application

  Tencent Maps mobile application

  The Tencent Maps mobile offering brings map search, location discovery, route planning, and navigation capabilities to mobile users. The supplied material confirms the existence of the Tencent Maps service but does not provide a verified application launch date or a complete feature history.

• Location-services infrastructure

  Tencent Maps developer APIs

  Tencent Maps provides developer-oriented map and location interfaces intended to help applications incorporate mapping, address lookup, geocoding, route planning, positioning, and related location functions. Specific APIs, access conditions, quotas, and pricing should be verified on Tencent's current developer documentation.

• 2021

  Tencent Maps ordered to rectify after CAC and MIIT notices over illegal personal information collection

  In May 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China notified that the Tencent Maps app violated the necessity principle and collected personal information unrelated to map services, ordering rectification within a deadline; in August of the same year, in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "look back" notice, Tencent Maps was again ordered to rectify for illegally invoking contacts and location permissions. It rectified on schedule.

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• 2026.10.30

  Reported2026.10.30

  Tencent Maps launches LBSwork AI map workbench[4]腾讯地图推出LBSwork AI地图工作台ai.zol.com.cn

  Tencent Maps launched LBSwork, a desktop AI map workbench that provides integrated AI-and-mapping support for vertical industries including retail, mobility and cultural tourism.

• 2026.10.30

  Reported2026.10.30

  Tencent Maps releases map-agent capabilities[4]腾讯地图推出LBSwork AI地图工作台ai.zol.com.cn

  Tencent Maps released a map-agent capabilities overview and opened the related capabilities to industry customers, smart-hardware makers and developers.

• 2026.10.30

  Reported2026.10.30

  Tencent Maps unveils Gaia 2.0[4]腾讯地图推出LBSwork AI地图工作台ai.zol.com.cn

  Tencent Maps unveiled the upgraded Gaia 2.0 location-services platform, integrating industry solutions, the LBSwork intelligent workbench and underlying spatial-temporal Harness capabilities.

• 2021.07.21

  Tongcheng Travel and Tencent Maps launch a rescue hotel map[5]同程旅行与腾讯地图推出爱心救助酒店地图chinaz.com

  Tongcheng Travel and Tencent Maps jointly launched a rescue hotel map that lets users find nearby hotels offering public-interest assistance. The map also provides information about local flooding on roads.

• 2021.07.21

  Reported2021.07.22

  Heartwarming Relief Hotel Map launched in Henan[6]爱心救助酒店地图上线finance.sina.com.cn

  Tongcheng Travel and Tencent Maps launched the Heartwarming Relief Hotel Map, allowing users to find nearby hotels offering public-welfare relief services and check local waterlogging conditions.

• Unconfirmed

  Tencent Maps announces an aggregated ride-hailing service[7]腾讯地图宣布聚合打车服务计划chinaz.com

  Tencent Maps announced a plan for an aggregated ride-hailing service, working with Didi, which would provide aggregation and dispatch-matching technology. The source states that the plan was to take effect from September 22, 2020.

• 2020.09.22

  Reported2020.09.22

  Tencent Maps releases version 9.0[8]腾讯地图上线9.0版本finance.sina.com.cn

  Tencent Maps released version 9.0, adding an upgraded intelligent home page and navigation features, and integrating QQ Music playback into the driving-navigation page.

• 2020.06.03

  Reported2020.06.04

  Tencent Maps and Xi'an Transport Bureau form smart-transport partnership[9]腾讯地图与西安交通运输局签署智慧交通战略合作协议tech.sina.com.cn

  Tencent Maps and the Xi'an Transport Bureau signed a strategic cooperation agreement to share and integrate transport data and work on smart public-transport systems and related services in Xi'an.

• 2019.12.09

  Reported2019.12.09

  Tencent Maps and Guangdong traffic police bureau enter strategic cooperation[10]腾讯地图与广东省交管局达成战略合作finance.sina.com.cn

  Tencent Maps and the Guangdong Provincial Traffic Management Bureau entered a strategic partnership to jointly develop smart transportation.

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1. 1Tencent Maps official websitemap.qq.com
2. 2Tencent Maps ordered to rectify after CAC and MIIT notices over illegal personal information collectionmiit.gov.cn
3. 3Tencent Maps ordered to rectify after CAC and MIIT notices over illegal personal information collectioncqtimes.cn
4. 4腾讯地图推出LBSwork AI地图工作台ai.zol.com.cn
5. 5同程旅行与腾讯地图推出爱心救助酒店地图chinaz.com
6. 6爱心救助酒店地图上线finance.sina.com.cn
7. 7腾讯地图宣布聚合打车服务计划chinaz.com
8. 8腾讯地图上线9.0版本finance.sina.com.cn
9. 9腾讯地图与西安交通运输局签署智慧交通战略合作协议tech.sina.com.cn
10. 10腾讯地图与广东省交管局达成战略合作finance.sina.com.cn