Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by dhirender
MapmyIndia has launched iNav, a GPS (global positioning system) based navigation solution that offers maps and navigation software for mobile phones in India – a service that was available on internet, car devices and Blackberry phones earlier.
The service helps locate where the user is, where he is headed, provides turn-by-turn graphical map guidance and also [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2008 by dhirender
Yahoo India has introduced driving directions and community search on its existing Yahoo India Maps. According to the company, Yahoo India Maps users can search for directions between 179 cities, 4,767 towns, and 2,26,114 villages. Users can also search for about 3 million points of interest — such as ATMs, petrol pumps, restaurants and hotels [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2007 by dhirender
Real-time turn-by-turn navigation with visual map guidance and voice instructions
Search and navigate to anywhere in India
55,000 towns and villages connected by national and state highways
Important landmarks within 150 cities
2,00,000 tourist and business points of interest in 52 categories across the country
Complete coverage of streets, localities, sub-localities, and points of interest in 18 major cities.
That is [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2007 by dhirender
According to a Telephia research, location-based services (LBS) such as navigation, represented 51 percent of the $118 million in revenue that downloadable mobile applications (such as LBS, weather applications, chat/community, and personal organization tools) generated during Q2 2007. Many consumers, says the report, may not realize the utility of a navigation application on their mobile [...]
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