Google Maps Launches Street View In India

New Delhi: Google has launched its 360-degree interactive panorama feature for 10 Indian cities with data from local partners Tech Mahindra and Mumbai-based Genesis International.

With this feature, people will be able to navigate and explore new corners of the country and the world in a more visual and precise way, allowing them to fully experience what it's like to be in these places from their phones or computer.

This has been made possible by the new National Geospatial Policy, 2021, which allows local companies to collect such data and license it to others, making it the first country where Street View has been enabled primarily Enabled by partners.

The new Street View feature is available on Google Maps from today, but only in Bangalore on a pilot basis. However, shortly this feature will be rolled out to more cities in India, including Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Vadodara, Ahmednagar, and Amritsar.

Accessing this feature is quite easy. One just needs to open the Google Maps app, zoom in on a street in any of these target cities and tap the area you want to see.

This feature will let people directly see a particular city in 3D view on their computer screen.

Besides this, Google has also announced the launch of speed limit data in maps for Bengaluru and Chandigarh as well as road congestion data in nine cities.

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