May 13 2008:
'MapmyIndia,' India's premium quality digital map data and consumer
navigation services, launched 'iNav,' its GPS navigation solutions for
mobile phones. 'iNav' offers comprehensive maps and high quality
navigation software for the growing number of GPS phones.
Talking
to newspersons after the launch, Company Director Rohan Verma said
''our vision is to make maps and navigation as an integral part of the
country's basic infrastructure. After making maps freely available on
the internet via MapmyIndia.com and launching of MapmyIndia Navigator
for in-car navigation, we hope that GPS navigation can benefit all
mobile phone users across the country.'' To a question, he said over
200 surveyors and 150 professionals were on job to update the maps.
Every six months it would be updated.
Mr Verma said its wide
net work includes 2,80,000 points of interest across 52 categories,
such as ATMs, restaurants, petrol pumps and police stations. As many as
55,000 towns and villages, landmarks in 150 cities, national and state
highways and detailed street, by-lane, locality, sub-locality and
comprehensive points of 18 major cities were available for the users,
he added.
Source :
http://www.deepikaglobal.com
