Recently, the Bengaluru-based startup, Latlong, unveiled a geo-coding API. It claimed in a blog post that it is significantly more accurate than Google Maps API; it’s 2x more accurate, according to a benchmark study conducted by the National Geodesy Centre of IIT Kanpur.
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The study further indicated that the accuracy of Latlong’s API is also 35x better than that of Microsoft Bing API and about 200x greater than that of TomTom API.
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Puranika Narayana Bhatta, CEO of Latlong, stated, “A benchmarking exercise was carried out in this regard, using several thousand addresses. These addresses represent different possibilities across the country – residential and businesses; hospitals and schools; cities and villages; Tier 1 and Tier 4 cities; apartments and individual houses.”
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Latlong is leveraging the AI4Bharat API to achieve this. The goal of IIT Madras’ AI4Bharat effort is to provide open-source datasets and AI models for Indic languages.
MapMyIndia is another Indian startup that competes with Google in this market. In addition to other services, the company offers a full API stack, IOT devices, and a map app. MapmyIndia targets 4 major vertical markets: direct users, the automobile industry, mobile internet, and companies and the government.
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Rohan Verma, CEO of Map-MyIndia, said in an earlier interaction with AIM, “We have been working on Realview since February 2021 and have also developed a 3D Metaverse map, which even Google doesn’t have.”