MapmyIndia releases maps with house addresses and 3 million places, solves last mile navigation problem in India

MapmyIndia releases maps with house addresses and 3 million places, solves last mile navigation problem in India

• Launches India’s first house address maps for Delhi NCR and Chandigarh; more cities to follow

• Makes possible door-to-door navigation to residential house addresses, local businesses, offices, apartments and tourist places

• Makes finding places and destinations easy with directory of 3 million places, and intelligent, super-fast, predictive search with auto-correction of spellings

• Introduces voice guidance and instructions in 8 Indian languages besides English

• MapmyIndia Maps power market-leading mobile, tablet and in-car GPS devices

• Available for sale in over 600 car showrooms and accessory shops, electronics retail chains and the MapmyIndia.com online store

New Delhi, August 25, 2010: MapmyIndia, India’s leader in maps, GPS navigation and location-based services, today announced the launch of India’s first house address maps. An important part of the company’s latest maps release – MapmyIndia Maps Version 5.0 – the house address maps are now available for Delhi NCR and Chandigarh, with more cities to follow. Maps Version 5.0 also includes a large directory of 3 million places as well as highly detailed, street level maps for over 809 cities of India as well as All India coverage connecting, 576,000 towns and villages by over 1 million kilometers of highly accurate, updated and fully navigable highways and road network. Last Mile Navigation Challenge Solved The challenge of road travel in India has always been the last mile – travelers wasted a lot of time trying to find the exact house number, moving round in circles or getting vague and unreliable help from passersby. Given how the unstructured and complex nature of India’s addressing structure, and the lack of street names and road signs, there was no way to get convenient and reliable guidance to the exact house address – until now. With the release of MapmyIndia Maps Version 5.0, MapmyIndia makes possible door-to-door navigation to residential house addresses, as well as to local businesses, offices, apartments and tourist places. So, for example, if you are planning to travel from Gurgaon to your friend’s house warming party in Greater Kailash 2 in South Delhi, you can see the exact house address on a MapmyIndia Navigator loaded with MapmyIndia Maps Version 5.0, and it will guide you turn-by-turn, with clear voice and map instructions to that address, ensuring that your final destination is your friend’s doorstep.

Additional features in MapmyIndia Maps Version 5.0 In Maps Version 5.0, MapmyIndia has added many more features which bring mass appeal to GPS navigation, such as the inclusion of a comprehensive and exhaustive directory of 3 million points of interest across over 52 categories (offices, restaurants, clubs, apartments, hotels, petrol pumps, ATMs etc.) which can be found easily through MapmyIndia’s new intelligent, super-fast, predictive search, which automatically corrects spelling mistakes. For relevant places, MapmyIndia includes phone numbers as well so that users could, for example, find the nearest Chinese restaurant, call ahead to check availability and make a reservation, and then navigate easily to its doorstep. In terms of spoken voice instructions, MapmyIndia has added voice guidance in 8 Indian languages – Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu (Marathi and others will follow soon) – in addition to English and foreign languages, so the MapmyIndia Navigator can communicate to you in the language that you prefer. According to Rakesh Verma, MD, MapmyIndia, “We at MapmyIndia consider Maps Version 5.0 to be a significant development for travelers in India as well as the industry. Releasing house address maps for a country as complex as India was a big challenge, both in terms of data as well as technology. At MapmyIndia, we continue to aggressively pursue our vision to digitally map and continuously update each and every corner of India. We are inspired to continuously improve our maps because we see MapmyIndia Maps fundamentally improving daily travel for our users, and because we see our business partners succeeding significantly in the Indian market by including MapmyIndia Maps in their offerings. With a series of disruptive products and services lined-up for launch in the areas of GPS, location-based services and maps, MapmyIndia Maps Version 5.0 can only be seen as the beginning. We promise much more to MapmyIndia users and partners in the future.” Availability of MapmyIndia powered products across India MapmyIndia Maps power market-leading mobile, tablet and in-car devices in India today. Motorola’s latest Android mobile phones, including the award-winning Motorola Milestone, Backflip, and Milestone XT720 offer navigation powered by MapmyIndia Maps. Micromax W900, a sub- Rs 10000 feature-packed business phone comes pre-loaded with navigation powered by MapmyIndia Maps. The recently announced OlivePad, India’s first 3G tablet launched by Olive, will come pre-loaded with navigation powered by MapmyIndia Maps. The market-leader in Sports-Utility Vehicles (SUV) category, the Ford Endeavor, offers in-dash navigation powered by MapmyIndia Maps. Many more mobile, tablet and in-car devices and vehicles are expected to come loaded with MapmyIndia Maps in the following months. Leading players in the automotive and telecom space partner with MapmyIndia both due to the quality and superiority of the solution offered by MapmyIndia compared to other local and international players, as well as because of MapmyIndia’s acceptability as being by far the best navigation, GPS and LBS provider for the Indian marketplace.

MapmyIndia offers a wide range of GPS navigation products for in-car as well as mobile which are available for sale across India. MapmyIndia’s award-winning and best-selling range of GPS navigation devices, the MapmyIndia Navigator, is available for sale in car showrooms of Toyota, General Motors, Ford, Mahindra, Fiat, Maruti and Tata Motors across India besides car accessory shops in over 50 major cities. MapmyIndia has appointed Redington as its national distributor for the electronics and lifestyle channel, and MapmyIndia Navigator is available for sale in leading electronics and lifestyle chains and stores such as Croma, Jumbo, Landmark and Gizmos. MapmyIndia also sells Mobile Maps, a GPS navigation software for all the popular and latest mobile phone platforms including Android, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile. MapmyIndia Mobile Maps offers the best maps and navigation experience for mobile phones and connected devices, and this product along with MapmyIndia Navigator is also available for sale through the MapmyIndia.com online store. MapmyIndia GPS navigation solutions for in-car as well as mobile cost in the range starting Rs 2,000 to Rs 20,000, and are one-time costs with no recurring subscriptions and data connections needed. What’s new in MapmyIndia Maps Version 5.0:

• MapmyIndia Maps Version 5.0 further extends its leadership as India’s best maps and voice guided GPS navigation experience

• For the first time in India – House address maps for Delhi NCR and Chandigarh, with more cities to follow – so that users can reach the doorstep of a residential house address

• Place directory of over 3 million points of interest across over 52 categories, with phone numbers details available for relevant places, so that users can easily search for any place, see it on a map, call it, and get accurate and reliable turn-by-turn directions to that place

• Find places and destinations easily through newly released intelligent, super-fast, predictive search with auto correction of spellings

• Detailed street level map coverage now available in 809 cities across India (up from 620 cities) – including localities, sub-localities, streets, and points of interest

• Complete All India coverage connecting 576,000 towns & villages through 1 million kilometers of highways and road network

• Pin code data and search included so that users can search by pin code as well

• Voice guidance available in English as well as 8 Indian languages – Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam (Marathi and others to follow).

• MapmyIndia Maps are continuously refreshed, updated and made accurate through MapmyIndia’s over 400 field surveyors and 150+ map specialist engineers, and the Maps Version 5.0 release follows MapmyIndia’s last release in January 2010, as part of MapmyIndia’s standard 6-monthly update release cycle.

MapmyIndia Maps Version 5.0 press release