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What the rise of clean energy looks like from spaceGlobal Renewables Watch, a collaboration between Planet, The Nature Conservancy, and Microsoft's AI for Good Lab, uses AI and satellite ima...
Ola Maps a gimmick, people should be careful of fly-by-night products: MapmyIndia CEOMapmyIndia questioned Ola's claim of creating its own navigation map of India, labeling it a gimmick. CEO Rohan Verma stated that building ...
Location wars: How a newly liberalised sector in India is hotting upThe liberalised geospatial policy in India has spurred intense competition in the mapping industry, with local firms like Ola and MapMyIndi...
MapMyIndia sues Ola Electric for ‘copying’ dataMapMyIndia, homegrown digital mapping services company, is taking Ola Electric to court for allegedly stealing its data to create its recen...
Use Ola Maps: Bhavish Aggarwal urges developers to exit Google mapsBhavish Aggarwal, founder of Ola, has urged developers to transition to Ola Maps in a bold move aimed at challenging Google maps dominance....
Ecommerce not clicking as it did post pandemic; Namma Yatri daily rides in fast laneAfter a pandemic-fuelled surge in online shopping, the industry is seeing moderate growth over the past few months. We have a detailed stor...
Namma Yatri on ONDC fast lane, nets 20% of daily Bengaluru rides from rivalsLaunched by SoftBank-backed Juspay, it is already undertaking an average of 30,000 auto rides a day, growing at 100% month on month, as per...
Google Street View lets users virtually walk a sacred place in Australia, sparks debateUluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, deeply sacred to the Anangu people, was closed to tourists in 2019.
Best-kept secret? Concerns raised by Australian authorities about Google show mapping risksGovernments and technology companies are mapping much of the Earth with satellite imagery, but in doing so, they may be putting indigenous ...
Covid-19 outbreak: Arogya Setu wristbands to monitor patients’ movementsAs the emphasis is on home quarantine, wristbands will help in remote monitoring, help health professionals know people’s temperature and s...
‘Digital Graffiti’ on Mapbox highlights the pitfalls of open dataThe problem stemmed from Mapbox, an eight-year-old startup that consolidates geographic data from hundreds of different sources to help com...
Pokemon craze sparks search for ships, alien creaturesThe runaway popularity of the app where users roam real world places in search of virtual pocket monsters has focused developers on the pot...
Geospatial bill: Bengaluru finds a route to save the map from governmentThe Centre for Internet and Society, Geo-Bangalore, Open Data Bangalore, DataMeet, DataKind and other entities are preparing to meet top of...
Rs 100 crore fine for faulty maps? Bizarre, say expertsInternet experts have criticized the proposed legislation for its vague wording and harsh penalties, and feel it could adversely affect doi...
Global venture-funded mapping startup Mapbox brings India’s landscapes onlineAs venture-funded startups from elsewhere are following their forebears in setting up shop here, one startup is challenging that dynamic.
Bengaluru gets first digital Kannada mapYoung mappers have created the first Kannada labelled digital maps of Bengaluru. Eventually,they plan to extend it to the whole of Karnatak...
How some Indian startups are offering tech support to bring normalcy in NepalAt a recent hackathon, `Hack for Nepal', 40 coders came up with technologydriven solutions for disaster management and survival.