Question: recently with which of the following geospatial services provider ISRO has made an agreement to provide indigenous mapping solution for India?
a) Argis Solutions
b) Google
c) GIS Cloud
d) MapmyIndia
Answer: (d)
Related Facts:
- On 12 February 2021; an agreement has taken place between Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and MapmyIndia, to offer an indigenous mapping solution for the country.
- ISRO MapmyIndia and the MapmyIndia (navigation solutions provider) came forward to take on Google Maps.
- Rohan Verma (MapmyIndia CEO and Executive Director), said that both the organisations would come with an India made mapping portal and geospatial services.
- He went on to add that the collaboration will boost Aatmanirbhar Bharat, which will mean that users in India in future can rely on a country made solution and not a service designed outside India.
- Mr Verma said that now there will be no need to depend on Goo*le Maps/Earth any longer.
- On 12 February 2021; the Department of Space (DoS), under which ISRO comes, signed a MoU with CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd.
- CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd is a geospatial technology company which is owned by MapmyIndia.
As part of the deal, ISRO and MapmyIndia would develop solutions by leveraging their geoportals and work on enhancing geospatial expertise.
- According to ISRO, the collaboration will enable them to jointly identify and build holistic geospatial solutions.
- For this purpose they will now be utilizing the earth observation datasets, NavIC, Web Services and APIs (application programming interface) available in MapmyIndia, Bhuvan, VEDAS and MOSDAC geoportals.
- The space agency confirmed that R Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary, ISRO, signed the MoU on behalf of DOS and Rakesh Verma, CMD, CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd signed from the company side.
- Through the combined partnership with ISRO, MapmyIndia end-user maps, apps and services will now integrate with ISRO’s huge catalogue of satellite imagery.
- Through this joint effort, it would be a much better, more detailed and comprehensive, as well as privacy-centric, hyper-local and indigenous mapping solution for Indians, compared to foreign map apps and solutions.
- Users will be able to see in MapmyIndia’s maps and services, all of India from a bird’s eye point of view.
- Country’s people will also benefit hugely from the various map-based analytics and insights about the weather, pollution, agricultural output, land-use changes, flood and landslide disasters etc.
- MapmyIndia maps and APIs will enrich ISRO’s geoportals, empowering Indian scientists, academia, researchers and government organisations with the best of India’s satellite imagery.
- It will provide them earth observation data and digital map data and advanced geospatial technologies.
- These all will be combined together in a fully indigenous Aatmanirbhar ISRO-MapmyIndia platform.
By – Rajesh Tripathi