India Maps now available on Nokia Map Loader

Hi Checked out the India maps through the Nokia Map Loader and they were better of without putting up these maps. I think its really sad that even though India is such a huge market for Nokia they have launched the maps application without any india maps whatsoever. I checked the Bangalore map and was really shocked to see that there is absolutly nothing. For now I would suggest using google maps.

I am writing to tell you about MapmyIndia.com, a free interactive maps and directions portal for all India.

We have recently launched our next generation v2008, whose main focus is to provide meaningful and useful directions from anywhere to anywhere in India. Next time you need to go somewhere unfamiliar, we want you to know you have a reliable and easy option to get directions – MapmyIndia.com! You can read what all MapmyIndia.com v2008 has to offer in the Mapmyindia press corner.

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Tarun Gupta
The MapmyIndia Marketing Team
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Hi,

I had read that SonyEricsson are introducing maps in collaboration with MapMyIndia. And they will be detailed enough to provide driving instructions!

Regards,
Mandar.

Hi,

I recently bought a Nokia N82. Currently I am travelling in Bombay and I find the maps for the town section of Bombay to be extremely accurate. The names on roads are all there and the routing is typically spot on. The maps do not take into consideration some of the diversions and temporary road blockages, but they are still extremely good.

I also tried to find places in Delhi, which is my home town and over there I found that the maps are not as good as the ones for Bombay.

I have been using google maps & mgmaps on my older non gps phones for more than a year now and I would say that for bombay at least, the most detailed maps are available only from Nokia maps.

I still use google maps on my phone for the satellite images, but for bombay at least I have stopped using my handheld gps and the other apps as I find the inbuilt gps to be accurate enough and the maps to be of the highest quality..

Ambar

Jaganath,

I have checked out the mapmyindia website and found that their coverage as of date is the best for India. Does the mobile product also come with the same mapset as that shown on the website? Or is there more detail available.

One thing I have yet to find is a mapping product that can correctly find addresses in India to the block/building level. Most of the time when I try to check indian addresses, no product can give exact location. How do the mapmyindia maps compare to nokia maps in this regard? Have you tried out google maps on your phone? How good/bad is that? My experience with google maps has not been very good.

As of now I am looking at free mapping solutions for my phone so I have not really given the mapmyindia product a lot of thought. My experience of travelling around India in cars and bikes has been that it is best to just ask a person on the road for directions. Unless you are travelling at very odd hours or some very sparsely populated areas, this is still the most appropriate method i feel.

Ambar

If you don’t want to use Nokia’s maploader you can get maps from http://nokiamaps.moo.no . Works with Windows, Linux, Mac, and you don’t need to install anything on your computer.

THanks very very match