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AutoNavi Holdings Limited

Corporation of digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions

AutoNavi Software Co., Ltd. is a Chinese web mapping, navigation and location-based services provider, founded in 2001. One of its subsidiary companies, Beijing Mapabc Co. Ltd., is a map website in China. AutoNavi was acquired by Alibaba Group in 2014.2 It employed 2,000 people in 2010.1 Its revenue was CN¥80 million in 2010.1 Its shares trade on NASDAQ under the symbol AMAP.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Sep 14, 2001Founded1

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Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

AutoNavi Software Co., Ltd. is a Chinese web mapping, navigation and location-based services provider, founded in 2001. One of its subsidiary companies, Beijing Mapabc Co. Ltd., is a map website in China. AutoNavi was acquired by Alibaba Group in 2014. It offers its map services at Amap.com and as the Amap mobile app. It is known as Gaode in Chinese.2

Corporate structure

AutoNavi Holdings Limited is part of a group headed by Alibaba Group. 48 entities, 12 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What AutoNavi Holdings Limited reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • amap

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The company was founded in 2002 by Jun Hou, Congwu Cheng and Jun Xiao "to develop digital map data for in-dash navigation systems in automobiles".

In 2007, Amap launched their first in-house developed car navigation system.

In 2021, Amap was integrated into Alibaba's Lifestyle Services division, which also includes food delivery service Ele.me.

In March 2023, Amap claimed 150 million average daily active users.

On 21 January 2025 the company launched an English version of their app for Android, iOS and HarmonyOS. This is China's first English map for overseas users. In 2026, an investigation of the app's network traffic found that Amap regularly transmits user location data to servers in China.

From Wikipedia’s article on AutoNavi, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

  • amap
  • map

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Also owns

  • amap

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

  • 20102,0001

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

  • 201080.0M CNY1

Timeline

  1. Apr 2014Acquired Acquired by Alibaba Group1
  2. Jul 1, 2010Went public Listed on NASDAQ1
  3. Sep 14, 2001Founded Founded1

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