MapmyIndia announces alliance with Survey of India

MapmyIndia announces alliance with Survey of India

New Delhi, November 4, 2009: MapmyIndia, India’s leading map and GPS navigation services provider has announced an alliance with Survey of India. MapmyIndia can now use and provide value added services to Survey of India maps. This bolsters the company’s already extensive coverage across India, and opens new vistas for business with government and defense organizations. Commenting on the alliance Surveyor General of India said, “MapmyIndia is a leading reputed navigational and location based GIS company in India in the digital mapping and cartography space, this alliance would help fulfil the demand for high quality maps and values to GIS based data sets.” As the premier mapping agency for India, Survey of India wishes to actively engage with leading private players in the geo-spatial information market place to utilize their digital topographic/cartographic data sets and bring innovative solutions for the benefit of Indian society.

Through this alliance, MapmyIndia can combine its 15+ years of map data collection and processing experience to provide value added services to Survey of India maps. This will allow MapmyIndia to accelerate provision of map based value added services and navigation services across all cities and towns in India and bring benefits of digital mapping to every citizen in India.

On this occasion, Rakesh Verma, MD, MapmyIndia says: “Our alliance with Survey of India validates the perception of MapmyIndia as one of the premier digital mapping agencies in India. This alliance also allows us to bring our years of experience in building high quality maps for leading private firms to service the government and defense sectors. The symbiotic nature of the association allows both MapmyIndia and Survey of India to use each other’s map data to provide value added services. This is a huge step for the navigation and GIS industries in India.” Lauding MapmyIndia’s efforts in the navigation and LBS space, the Surveyor General of India further added, “I am confident that MapmyIndia will meet the wider expectations of the Indian society and GIS users through provision of cost-effective, user friendly, timely and accurate information to them and prove themselves to be the pioneer and trend setter in their specialized field through use of innovative techniques and technologies for their salient benefits.”

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