Indian Government Partners MapmyIndia To Digitise Physical Addresses
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Here is a video demo showing the exact way digital address mapping would work: As of now, the eLocations pilot project has been slated to roll out for three postal pin code locations, of which two are in Delhi and one is in Noida. The company then received the letter of intent from the Additional Director-General (mail operations) Abhishek Kumar Singh for the new age addressing system on July 11, 2017. The results of the POC may be utilised by the Department towards developing a digital address format that would suit the purpose of a national level project rollout.” The letter of approval also mentions that the support from the Department for the POC would be limited to: MapmyIndia was launched in 1992 by duo Rakesh and Rashmi Verma with an aim to create a digital repository of geographical data that would change the way companies function. Fast forward to 2017, in the last 20 years, the company claims to have invested over $30.6 Mn (INR 200 Cr) in advanced mapping technologies professional field surveys to create India’s most comprehensive digital address database. MapmyIndia also claims to make available a free, ready database of over 2 Cr and counting eLocs, across all 7000+ urban towns and 6+ lakh villages in rural India, for an individual, business, and government users.
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