Although the technology giant, Google is yet to receive permission from Indian government regarding the use of its street view within the county. The company is planning to few specific features into the google maps seeing the Indian continent.
“However, with more than 5,000 cities and six lakh villages mapped in India, the company is aiming to develop more country-relevant features,” said Sanket Gupta, Maps Lead, Google India.
Street view feature will allow you to browse the world famous attractions, places and step inside of the buildings. But seeing as a security concern, the Indian government has given the permission for the same.
“In India’s immediate neighbourhood, countries like Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have it in the south Asian region while Indonesia in the south-east, and Japan are deploying it,” said Gupta. “As of now, we have not been able to get permissions. Discussions are still happening on that front. It’s more of a decision on the policy side that we have not been able to get permissions. Technically, we just need cameras and cars,” Gupta told the media.
“The landmark-based directions feature that we developed for India and from India, has been launched in other countries. We will launch it in Indonesia. Then we have the ‘Named Intersections’ and local guides program. The offline maps feature was inspired by India,” Gupta said.
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