Boost to the Aatmanirbhar Bharat: ISRO, MapmyIndia join hands to take on Google's Maps, Earth products

New Delhi, February 13: In the path-breaking milestone in India's journey towards 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat', Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has entered into an MoU with with MapmyIndia the navigation solutions provider, to offer an indigenous mapping solution to take on Google Maps.

 

The MoU was signed in the presence of R Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary, ISRO, and Mr Rakesh Verma, CMD, M/s CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd. Through the MoU, the combined geospatial expertise of the Department and CE Info Systems will be leveraged through their respective Geoportals.

 

 

 

This Collaboration will enable both the teams to jointly identify & build holistic geospatial solutions utilizing the Earth Observation Datasets, NavIC, Web Services & APIs available in MapmyIndia, Bhuvan, VEDAS and MOSDAC Geoportals.

 

Giving further details, MapmyIndia CEO and Executive Director, Rohan Verma said that both the organisations would come with an India made mapping portal and geospatial services on Friday. He also stated that the collaboration will boost Aatmanirbhar Bharat, which will mean that users in India in future can rely on a country made solution and not a service designed outside India.

 

With that Indian users can leverage made in India maps, navigation, and GIS services.