{"id":108799,"date":"2021-02-15T08:49:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=108799"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:49:28","slug":"isro-to-provide-indigenous-mapping-solution-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/isro-to-provide-indigenous-mapping-solution-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO to provide indigenous mapping solution for India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: recently with which of the following geospatial services provider ISRO has made an agreement to provide indigenous mapping solution for India?<br><\/strong>a) Argis Solutions<br>b) Google<br>c) GIS Cloud<br>d) MapmyIndia<br><strong>Answer: (d)<br>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>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.<\/li><li>ISRO MapmyIndia and the MapmyIndia (navigation solutions provider) came forward to take on Google Maps.<\/li><li>Rohan Verma (MapmyIndia CEO and Executive Director), said that both the organisations would come with an India made mapping portal and geospatial services.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>Mr Verma said that now there will be no need to depend on Goo*le Maps\/Earth any longer.<\/li><li>On 12 February 2021; the Department of Space (DoS), under which ISRO comes, signed a MoU with CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd.<\/li><li>CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd is a geospatial technology company which is owned by MapmyIndia.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the deal, ISRO and MapmyIndia would develop solutions by leveraging their geoportals and work on enhancing geospatial expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to ISRO, the collaboration will enable them to jointly identify and build holistic geospatial solutions.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>Through the combined partnership with ISRO, MapmyIndia end-user maps, apps and services will now integrate with ISRO&#8217;s huge catalogue of satellite imagery.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>Users will be able to see in MapmyIndia&#8217;s maps and services, all of India from a bird&#8217;s eye point of view.<\/li><li>Country\u2019s 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.<\/li><li>MapmyIndia maps and APIs will enrich ISRO&#8217;s geoportals, empowering Indian scientists, academia, researchers and government organisations with the best of India&#8217;s satellite imagery.<\/li><li>It will provide them earth observation data and digital map data and advanced geospatial technologies.<\/li><li>These all will be combined together in a fully indigenous Aatmanirbhar ISRO-MapmyIndia platform.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/technology\/news\/story\/isro-and-mapmyindia-collaborate-to-bring-india-made-rival-to-google-maps-1768677-2021-02-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/technology\/news\/story\/isro-and-mapmyindia-collaborate-to-bring-india-made-rival-to-google-maps-1768677-2021-02-12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: recently with which of the following geospatial services provider ISRO has made an agreement to provide indigenous mapping solution for India?a) Argis Solutionsb) Googlec) GIS Cloudd) MapmyIndiaAnswer: (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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":108803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-108799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108804,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108799\/revisions\/108804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}