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After KooApp, now ISRO and MapmyIndia join hands to replace Google Maps in India

The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) and MapmyIndia, announced an initiative to partner together to offer a fully indigenous, mapping portal and geospatial services.

The development is in line with the Central government's June 2020 move to open up the space sector to private firms. The indigenously-developed mapping portal will serve as a rival to Google Maps, which is used by over a billion people across the world every month.

Giving further details, MapmyIndia CEO and Executive Director, Rohan Verma said that both the organisations would come with an India made mapping portal and geospatial services on Friday. He also stated that the collaboration will boost Aatmanirbhar Bharat, which will mean that users in India in future can rely on a country made solution and not a service designed outside India.

The company claims that it ensures that the maps reflect the true sovereignty of the country, depicting India’s borders as per Government of India.

MapmyIndia’s maps cover 7.5 lakh Indian villages, 7500+ cities at street and building-level, connected by 63 lakh kilometers of road network pan India and within cities. The company claims that this is the most exhaustive digital map database of the country, created entirely indigenously over the last 25 years.

Verma said citizens using its services can better protect their privacy, unlike the foreign companies that claim to offer free maps but in reality make money by targeting the same users with advertising based on invading user privacy and auctioning those users' private location and movement data.

The space agency confirmed that R Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary, ISRO, signed the MoU on behalf of DOS and Rakesh Verma, CMD, CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd signed from the company side.

 It's worth noting that ISRO already develops NavIC (also called Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System or IRNSS) which is Navigation with Indian Constellation, an India made navigation system.

Under the partnership, the combined geospatial expertise of the Department of Science (DoS) and CE Info Systems would be leveraged through their respective Geoportals, ISRO said in a statement, adding that the collaboration will enable them to jointly identify and build holistic geospatial solutions utilizing the earth observation datasets, NavIC (navigation with Indian Constellations), Web Services, and Application Programming Interface (API) available with MapmyIndia, VEDAS, MOSDAC and Bhuvan geoportals. 

 

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