Zooming in on India's map
At least there is some initiative for India. Me thinks Map My India, the desi version of Mapquest has still long way to go but it's good. I tried searching for my locality at my native place Bhopal (only a limited number of cities are covered as of now) and though it just managed to point at a broad outline, no street level data was given as with Google's Keyhole, but then Keyhole would not ever concentrate in India, will it?
I can understand the limitations, you cannot expect the sarkari mapmakers to get into such nasty details, may be when the business prospects are understood and the moolah beckons the municipal corporations will wake up. As far as the business use of such products is concerned, unlike CNN news channels in India hardly ever use such micro-views with news capsules, we are still accustomed to looking at DD styled political maps of India and the ones send by our good old Insat. [Link through Animesh.]
Hi Debashish,
Thanks for your comments on MapmyIndia. I wanted to let you know that we just relaunched the new version of MapmyIndia with more than 150 cities of India, as well as route maps and driving directions for India.
MapmyIndia is also introducing something for India which companies like Google and Mapquest won’t. It is called ‘eLocation’.
eLocation makes it really easy for someone to see the map and directions to your place. In fact, without me writing a long explanation, why don’t you simply go to the MapmyIndia site (http://www.mapmyindia.com) and search for a sample eLocation. The id is: arunhome
Try MapmyIndia and eLocation out, and I look forward to your comments on the blog, or through mail (rohanv@stanford.edu).
Warm Regards,
Rohan (on behalf of the MapmyIndia team)