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Mapping in India goes hi-tech

Prashant Pandey

A boon for general and business travellers

NEW DELHI: Tourists coming to India often lose their way in the myriad lanes and by-lanes as the names of roads and streets here change frequently due to political influence. This leaves many tourists from abroad and even Indian citizens travelling to new parts of the country flummoxed. But soon all this may change as mapping of the cities and villages is going very hi-tech.

Mapmyindia.com, the Internet portal of interactive maps of Indian cities with useful services to general and business travellers, has come up with what is described as a new beta version (v-2007) of digitised maps of Indian cities and villages.

Developed by CE Info Systems, the company that has pioneered Geographic Information System (GIS) in India, the new version will have the maps of bigger towns and cities in greater details.

Some of the important features of the new version include location of any specific place -- along with the nearest landmarks -- in a city, easy access to driving directions from one location to another within the country as well as during intra-city travel between two points in a metropolitan city and last-mile directions to any place in a city. Also, anyone may record his unique e-location that will enable others to spot the person's exact location on the map.

The product has been developed on the basis of mapping data gathered by an in-house team of surveyors. The services of the portal will also be available on GPRS-enabled mobile phones.

All this could well mean that finding ones way through cities and villages would become much simpler and easy in the days to come.

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