Travelers in our country are more than used to “almost” making it to their destination. After navigating through about 90% of our route, we get stuck closer to destination as most small roads in India usually do not have a name thus not only confusing us, but also the GPS system if we are using one. Such a situation almost makes it impossible to find your destination in a remote neighbourhood...

If your road sense sucks! Or if you never seem to know the way to go to reach a certain place no matter if you have been there before? Well I emphathize with you. Im one of those who depend on Google maps to reach anywhere they want. Its accurate 60-70% of the times. But people like me would definitely love a service where I could just call and ask for directions! Wouldn’t you? I mean with all...

MapmyIndia has announced the launch ‘MapmyIndia Sygic Mobile Maps’ to convert GPS-enabled mobile phones into GPS navigators. An app made in association with Europe based Sygic, it will help users access information on the go through their mobile phones and MapmyIndia’s data. The good part is that the app won’t require GPRS or a network to operate in, so no phone bills for usage...

Ever been lost in a blizzard, trying to figure out where did you land up out of nowhere? Today its actually hard to happen, with GPS ‘this’ and navigation ‘that’ all around the globe. Well, unless you’re in a similar playscript that Chuck Noland encountered in Cast Away. Its never going to be easy to find a way out especially when you’re in some of the busiest cities...

Smartphones from HTC have a decent niche market in India among the upper middle class. Especially their HTC Touch phone has done rather well on the back of the iPhone hype around the world and its expensive pricing in India. Satnav On HTC Now HTC has tied up with SatNav Technologies for bundling its SatGuide solutions with the HTC Phone. Satnav has had similar arrangements with dealers of Asus, i-mate,...

MapmyIndia,India’s leading map and GPS navigation services provider, recently announced the launch of Version 3.0 of MapmyIndia maps. The new maps now covers 90% of pan-india population through 401 cities, 837695 kms of roads, 411625 town and villages and around 10 lakh points-of-interest. The maps will be available on MapmyIndia.com and MapmyIndia Navigators. MapmyIndia also claims that the...

The mapping space seems to be on the map so as to say with MapmyIndia announcing its million dollar funding and now Rediff.com has gone ahead and made live a mapping products not suprisingly titled Rediff Maps. Rediff is sourcing the data from ML Infomap – A Delhi based GIS Information provider. The Indian players are quickly becoming aggressive in the mapping space. With Rediff now launched...

Yesterday Robin Wauters argued on Techcrunch that web 2.0 is dead, it is reflected in his analysis of the term web2.0 on Google trends and is also implied in all the recent funding news, the other day we reported the funding in VAS space and now it is GIS and Healthcare. The recent liquidity crunch has made more and more Venture Capitalists to return to the basics and concentrate on realistic evaluations...

Well Maps and travel seem to go hand in hand. Recently we had blogged about a start up entrip which claimed to be a visual travel blog and integrated the map experience to travel planning. Well that is something even zoomtra seems to be attempting. According to this release zoomtra has tied up with routeguru to power driving directions in delhi. The service is an addon to the travel search that zoomtra...

Microsoft has announced the launch of Live Search Maps for India. Detailed Listings and Street Maps for 9 Cities, Business Listings across 29 Cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 Cities and Towns is now avalilable vie Live Search Maps on the PC and Mobile in India. On can access live search maps on http://maps.live.co.in/. This is the first version of the live maps for India and key features...