ISRO, MapmyIndia workforce as much as tackle Google Maps/Earth

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In a bid to tackle Google Maps, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and digital mapping and location-based deep-tech firm MapmyIndia on Friday introduced a brand new initiative to supply a totally indigenous, mapping portal and geospatial companies. The companies will likely be combining the ability of MapmyIndia’s digital maps and applied sciences with ISRO’s catalogue of satellite tv for pc imagery and earth statement information.
Through the mixed partnership with ISRO, MapmyIndia’s end-user maps, apps, and companies can be a significantly better, extra detailed, and complete, in addition to privacy-centric, hyper-local, and indigenous mapping answer for Indians, in comparison with overseas map apps and options, the corporate stated.
“This partnership with ISRO heralds a new dawn of Aatmanirbhar Bharat in the strategic area of maps and geospatial technologies,” Rohan Verma, CEO & Executive Director, MapmyIndia, stated in an announcement.
“You don’t need Google Maps/Earth any longer”, Verma stated within the headline in an article on LinkedIn.

Users may even profit massively from the assorted map-based analytics and insights about climate, air pollution, agricultural output, land-use modifications, flood and landslide disasters, amongst others, the corporate stated.
MapmyIndia stated its maps and APIs (software programming interfaces) will enrich ISRO’s geoportals.
It will empower Indian scientists, academia, researchers, and authorities organisations with the perfect of India’s satellite tv for pc imagery, earth statement information, and digital map information, and superior geospatial applied sciences, all mixed collectively in a totally indigenous ISRO-MapmyIndia platform, the corporate added.
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