ISRO and MapmyIndia collaborate to bring India made rival to Google Maps

Indian Space Research Organisation has announced an initiative to partner with MapmyIndia for providing mapping and geospatial services.

To continued effort to come up with more ‘Made in India’ products, it will offer India’s best, and fully indigenous, mapping portal, and geospatial services.

The initiative was announced by the navigation technology solutions provider MapmyIndia by its CEO and Executive Director, Rohan Verma.

He called it a path-breaking milestone in India’s journey towards ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, wherein Indian users will not have to depend on foreign organizations for maps, navigation, and geospatial services.

“You don’t need Google Maps/Earth any longer”, Verma said in the headline in an article on LinkedIn.

While ISRO in a statement said the Department of Space (DoS) has joined hands with MapmyIndia to combine their expertise and leveraging their geoportals to build solutions.

The MoU between DoS and technology company CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd, which owns MapmyIndia was signed on Thursday.

The collaboration will enable them to share datasets like ‘NavIC’, Web Services, and APIs (application programming interface) available in MapmyIndia. While Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) called NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation, is India’s own navigation system, developed by ISRO.

“MapmyIndias maps cover all 7.5 lakh villages, 7500+ cities at street and building-level, connected by all 63 lakh kilometers of road network pan India and within cities, in total providing maps for an unparalleled 3+ crore places across India,” the company said in a statement.