Starting from today, People across 18 cities in India will be able to get house number and building level information on MapmyIndia. You can simply zoom to the last level on MapmyIndia Maps and see exact locations on the map for residential house numbers, commercial building addresses and names, apartment complexes, businesses and points of interest in 18 major cities.
For Example , you are looking for a house number in “Koramangala, Bangalore”, To get the house number information, Zoom in to the last level. You will see house numbers clearly marked on the map. You can just right-click on any location, and click ‘Directions from here’ or ‘Directions to here’ so you can get and share true “door-to-door” directions to that place.
Besides house numbers, you can also see building footprints (which shows the built-up area) in Delhi and Mumbai. Just zoom into ‘Greater Kailash 2, New Delhi’ and see footprints and buildings along with their associated house numbers. In the current online release house numbers are viewable on the map; search for house numbers is slated for future release.
MapmyIndia has also made it easy for users to add and share their favorite places (home, office, business, frequent hang-outs etc) to the map by right clicking at that location and choosing ‘Add a place.’
In August 2010, MapmyIndia had released house numbers on its series of Navigators allowing users to get true door-to-door navigation including turn-by-turn voice and visual map guidance.
Rohan Verma, Director, MapmyIndia says
We’ve been relentlessly updating map data of India for more than 15 years, despite the challenges of an unorganized addressing system. This is the first time such information has been made available for free in the public domain. We’re excited to launch the upgrade and would actively add features to make our online maps more usable as part of our users’ daily lives.
Currently this services is available in following cities – New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan, Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Mohali and Panchkula.
