• India’s best map coverage with 620 cities at street level, 5,76,000 towns and villages, 1 million navigable road kilometers, 2 million unique destinations across 52 categories
• Wins all automotive and telecom industry awards and top-slots for navigation and LBS
• India’s most widely deployed map by automotive and telecom leaders
• Aggressive roadmap to support automotive and telecom customers in succeeding in LBS and navigation
New Delhi, February 22, 2010: MapmyIndia, India’s leading map provider, has announced the release and availability of its latest India map, v4.0, cementing its place as India’s leading and award-winning map, navigation and LBS provider for India’s automotive and telecom markets. MapmyIndia Maps v4.0 – India’s best map data product for navigation and LBS
• 620 cities at street level
India’s most detailed street level maps, including not just broad locality-level detail, but additionally also block/sub-locality level detail, the complete inner-city street network, and the most extensive set of POIs.
• 5,76,000 towns and villages at national level
The broadest reach across all parts of upcountry India
• 1 million kilometers of fully navigable road network
Fully navigable national, state and major district highway as well as complete inner-city street network
• 2 million unique destinations across 52 categories
Include not just basic name and location information, but also search by popular name / abbreviation, search for phone numbers etc. to enable click-to-call.
• Travel focus on 125 tourist cities
Enable travelers and tourists to benefit fully from navigation; includes travel information for 125 popular destinations, covering 30,000 hot spots, with places to stay, eat, nearest access by air, rail, bus etc.
• Built to be India’s best
MapmyIndia Maps have been built through the efforts of 400 professional field surveyors driving and re-driving millions of road kilometers, and 150 map specialist engineers dedicated to India.
• Available on all leading automotive/telecom platforms
MapmyIndia has collaborated with the world’s leading automotive and telecom navigation/LBS platforms, and is available for immediate deployment for all automotive, handset and telecom operator products. India’s award-winning and leading map, navigation and LBS experience
• Best Product/Service of the Year 2010: Auto Bild Golden Steering Wheel – MapmyIndia Navigator Vx140
• Best Automotive Product of the Year 2010: NDTV Car and Bike Award – MapmyIndia Navigator
• PND of the Year 2009: Gadgets & Gizmos India Today Magazine – MapmyIndia Navigator Vx140
• SAT-NAV of the Year 2009: Stuff Magazine Award – MapmyIndia Navigator Lx130
• #1 grossing mobile app on iTunes India, out of 1,00,000 other apps, for 9 weeks running since December 2009 – MapmyIndia Sygic Mobile Maps
• #1 downloaded mobile app on Samsung Fun Club in January 2010: MapmyIndia Maps on Mobile
Commenting on MapmyIndia’s new release and plan to support automotive and telecom leaders, Mr. Rakesh Verma (Managing Director, MapmyIndia) said, “MapmyIndia has single-mindedly focused over the last 15 years on building India’s uncontested best map data product. Automotive and telecom leaders, who are serious about the Indian market and want to win here, choose MapmyIndia exclusively to provide consumers India’s best navigation and LBS experience. MapmyIndia Maps are proven in India, and testament to the quality of our OEM offerings is our leadership in the consumer marketplace and critical acclaim by industry. We are grateful for the trust imposed in us by our automotive and telecom customers. MapmyIndia’s team of 700 professionals has been strengthened by bringing on-board leaders from automotive, telecom, internet and consulting verticals, and we are excited to lead our customers towards success and differentiation in the marketplace, today and in the future with our extremely aggressive offering roadmap.”