ISRO & MapmyIndia Collaborates to Develop Indigenous Mapping Portal

NEW DELHI: In a bid to develop a fully indigenous mapping portal, apps and geospatial services, the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO and MapmyIndia have recently announced their amalgamation.

The initiative will be an alternative to Google Maps which will take forward India's journey of being self-reliant or Atmanirbhar, said MapmyIndia's CEO and Executive Director Rohan Verma.

Announcing its collaboration ISRO's Department of Space in a press statement informed that it has joined hands with MapmyIndia to combine their geospatial expertise and build holistic solutions by leveraging their geo portals.

Terming the initiative as a path-breaking milestone in India's journey towards 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' Verma said that the Indian users would not have to depend upon the foreign organisation for maps, navigation and geospatial services.

In a LinkedIn article, Verma informed that the end-user maps, apps and services of MapMyIndia will integrate with ISRO's huge catalogue of satellite imagery and earth observation data that would be detailed and comprehensive as well as privacy-centric, hyper-local and indigenous mapping solution for Indians, compared to foreign mapping apps and solutions.

"Users will be able to see in MapmyIndia's maps and services, all of India from a bird's eye point of view, and also benefit hugely from the various map-based analytics and insights about the weather, pollution, agricultural output, land-use changes, flood and landslide disasters etc," Verma added.

The Department of Space (DoS), ISRO signed an MoU with CE Infosystems, an Indian Geospatial Technology Company on February 11, for developing location-based Software Service and AI-based solutions.

The DoS and CE Infosystems combined geospatial expertise will be leveraged through their geoportals. This will also enable them to identify and built holistic geospatial solutions by utilizing the Earth Observation Datasets, NavIC, Web Services and APIs available in MapmyIndia, Bhuvan, Vedas and MOSDAC Geoportals.

Through this development, users will be able to access various map-based analytics and insights about the weather, pollution, agricultural output, land-use changes, flood and landslide disasters etc.

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