Services will combine MapmyIndia's digital maps and technologies with ISRO's catalogue of satellite imagery and earth observation data.
ISRO & MapmyIndia
partner to offer India’s best indigenous
maps, navigation & geospatial apps & services.
Path-breaking AatmanirbharBharat milestone!
Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) and India based company MapMyIndia have partner to offer India's best indigenous map and navigation service.
According to MapmyIndia CEO and Executive director Rohan Verma, It bring together MapmyIndia's Digital map and ISRO's catalogue of satellite imagery and earth observation data.
Rohan Verma said in the headline in an article on LinkedIn "You don't need Goo*le Maps/Earth any longer"
According to ISRO,
the Department of Space has joined hands with MapmyIndia to combine their geospatial expertise and build holistic solutions by leveraging their geoportals. On Thursday, the Department of Space signed a memorandum of understanding MaymyIndia parent CE Info Systems Pvt. Ltd.
The collaboration with ISRO will enable them to jointly identify and build holistic geospatial solutions utilising the earth observation datasets, 'NavIC', Web Services and APIs (application programming interface) available in MapmyIndia, 'Bhuvan', 'VEDAS' and 'MOSDAC' geoportals, the space agency said in a statement.
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), called NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation), is India's own navigation system, developed by ISRO.
Bhuvan is the national geoportal developed and hosted by ISRO comprising geospatial data, services and tools for analysis.
VEDAS (Visualisation of Earth observation Data and Archival System) is an online geo-processing platform using optical, microwave, thermal and hyperspectral data covering applications particularly meant for academia, research and problem solving.
MOSDAC (Meteorological and Oceanographic Satellite Data Archival Centre) is a data repository for all the meteorological missions of ISRO and deals with weather-related information, oceanography and tropical water cycles.
According to him(CEO Rohan Verma),
The "sustainable and direct, clean business model" ensures that MapmyIndias maps and apps can be kept free of cost as well as free of ads for users
"MapmyIndias maps cover all 7.5 lakh villages, 7500+ cities at street and building-level, connected by all 63 lakh kilometres of road network pan India and within cities, in total providing maps for an unparalleled 3+ crore places across India".
The company statement said,
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