Microsoft launched Live Search Maps for India
>> Thursday, 23 June 2011
Microsoft has announced the launch of Live Search Maps for India. Detailed Listings and Street Maps for 9 Cities, Business Listings across 29 Cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 Cities and Towns is now avalilable vie Live Search Maps on the PC and Mobile in India. On can access live search maps on http://maps.live.co.in/.
Microsoft is sourcing the maps from Navteq (just like Yahoo sources it from MapmyIndia). Navteq for those who dont know is a Chicago, Illinois-based provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nokia but operates independently.
Global (one need not type the city name), context-aware (i.e. ranking of results considers the map view), error-tolerant (corrects the typos, expands the important abbreviations) and flexible solution to find complete or partial address, roads, localities, landmarks and places of general interest.
0 comments:
Post a Comment