MapmyIndia, India’s pioneer and leader in digital mapping and advanced location-based and IoT technologies today announced that its flagship app, MapmyIndia Move, has been selected as #1 in the prestigious Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge in its category, which has been organised by Government of India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission – to identify the best Indian Apps that are already being used by citizens and have the potential to scale and become world class Apps in their respective categories.
MapmyIndia Move is India's super app for maps, mobility, safety, hyper local social discovery & more that comes built in with India's most detailed, accurate, comprehensive, continuously updated and feature-rich maps from MapmyIndia. MapmyIndia has been building the most intelligent and versatile digital maps of India including detailed doorstep/house address level and fully 3D real-time hyperlocal maps and advanced location-based technologies since 25 years, far before any international provider started offering solutions for India.
Rakesh Verma, Chairman and Managing Director, MapmyIndia said "25 years ago, our vision that someday 80% of all data would have a location component, and our desire to build something that could benefit all of India, led us to build the best digital map product for the country and world-class advanced location-based technologies. We have always believed in Aatmanirbhar and as a company, have since the beginning focused on building indigenous technologies and remained profitable. MapmyIndia knows India better, which is reflected in the better detail and localisation of our intelligent maps and app, and we do not use user's data for advertising, unlike global search giants, making MapmyIndia Move a better, safer and more intelligent alternative for Indians. We need the support of all of you - users and the government - to use and encourage the use of MapmyIndia, be vocal for local and help us go local se global. We thank the Government of India for recognising us as a winner in the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Challenge".
Maps are used extensively by crores of individuals and lakhs of small and large organisations depend on maps for various use cases. Now, Indians know that India has its own fully indigenous app in the form of MapmyIndia Move, which is more secure and respects user privacy compared to the global search giants, does not exploit user data for advertising, and offers much more precise and comprehensive intelligent, hyper local maps, and delivers many more features and benefits.
MapmyIndia Move, in one app itself, offers
- India’s best 3D and house-level maps with voice-guided navigation
- Remote GPS tracking of vehicles through connected GPS IoT gadgets
- Corona-related hyper-local information such as nearby containment zones, testing centres, treatment hospitals and isolation wards to help users stay safe.
- Live safety alerts about upcoming potholes, speed breakers and accident prone zones during navigation
- Precise directions to the exact doorstep of buildings through house number maps and the revolutionary eLoc, a 6-character unique location ID for every place across the country which simplifies India's complex addressing system
- Community reporting of hyper local issues on the map to help authorities fix issues by citizens on-ground, and
- Hyper local social networking and discovery features through My World View to help people stay connected with people, places, things and information around them in real-time.
- A super app platform, which allows multiple apps to be integrated into the MapmyIndia Move app by leveraging MapmyIndia’s APIs, giving users continuously increasing features and functionality.
For this nation wide competition, 24 finalists across 9 categories were selected from amongst 6940 entries received from across India. In MapmyIndia’s category there were 1200 apps out of which MapmyIndia was given 1st prize! Some of the other winners included prestigious apps such as Zoho.
MapmyIndia Move app's presentation to the jury, which was very well received by all, is available to view at https://youtu.be/jC0UfUEhuAo.
The announcement of MapmyIndia as the winner in this video, is available to view at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz4DHBimzb4&feature=youtu.be (skip to 9:41).
MapmyIndia's cutting edge technologies and maps are used by 5000 enterprise customers across the public and private sector. 80% of all cars in India with navigation systems use MapmyIndia, and thousands of the large and small technology companies and app developers use MapmyIndia's APIs and solutions, leading to 20 crore Indians benefitting from MapmyIndia's maps and technologies.
Founded & headquartered in New Delhi in 1995 by IIT Roorkee Alumnus Rashmi Verma (currently Executive Director), and BITS Pilani graduate Rakesh Verma (currently Chairman & MD), MapmyIndia pioneered digital mapping in India 25 years ago, built India’s first interactive map portal (MapmyIndia.com) in 2004, built the first All India GPS Navigation system (MapmyIndia Navigator) in 2007. MapmyIndia continues to build many other India-first, world-first and world-class cutting-edge technological innovations