wordpress blog stats
Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

CDAC Launches Multilingual Mobile Navigation Product Saarathy; API or Open Source?

India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, better known as CDAC, has launched Saarathy. Saarathy offers multilingual support - in English, Hindi and Malayalam, with the option of incorporating more languages. CDAC believes that the adoption of location based services is limited largely because of a lack of awareness and users inability to operate the system because of a language divide. The application offers routes, and warns users when they veer off-course.  The Saarathy application reads map layers like roads, landmarks etc, and also incorporates an emergency button which allows a user to send a rescuer mobile an SMS. The rescuer mobile will display the position of the user on a map background.Saarathy allows users to create and save new GPS paths, as well as replay saved paths from other sources - for example, a KML file from Google Earth can be shown on the application, according to this presentation (PPS). It also allows users to GeoTag photographs. API? Open Source LBS Development? This reminds me of a conference I had attended three years ago, titled Owning the Future: CDAC had been criticized for using taxpayers money for developing fonts and software, and then trying to monetize it by charging taxpayers for it. If the greater common good is the key concern for organizations like CDAC, then they should make applications like Saarathy open source, or at least open up the API to allow development using Saarathy as a base application. Related: -- MapmyIndia Compatible With Garmin Devices; Global Map Retailing -- Google India…

Please subscribe/login to read the full story.
Written By

Founder @ MediaNama. TED Fellow. Asia21 Fellow @ Asia Society. Co-founder SaveTheInternet.in and Internet Freedom Foundation. Advisory board @ CyberBRICS

Free Reads

News

With GPS in every car, India's toll collection is going high-tech.

News

Google is currently undergoing the necessary procedures for the leasehold land, which is presently under the ownership of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation.

News

The pilot project for which is being launched in 19 cities this year, with a plan to launch a full-fledged rollout next year.

MediaNama’s mission is to help build a digital ecosystem which is open, fair, global and competitive.

Views

News

NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe recently said that what is not written in regulations is a no-go for fintech entities. But following this advice could...

News

Notably, Indus Appstore will allow app developers to use third-party billing systems for in-app billing without having to pay any commission to Indus, a...

News

The existing commission-based model, which companies like Uber and Ola have used for a long time and still stick to, has received criticism from...

News

Factors like Indus not charging developers any commission for in-app payments and antitrust orders issued by India's competition regulator against Google could contribute to...

News

Is open-sourcing of AI, and the use cases that come with it, a good starting point to discuss the responsibility and liability of AI?...

You May Also Like

News

Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...

Advert

135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...

News

By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...

News

Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...

MediaNama is the premier source of information and analysis on Technology Policy in India. More about MediaNama, and contact information, here.

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ

Subscribe to our daily newsletter
Name:*
Your email address:*
*
Please enter all required fields Click to hide
Correct invalid entries Click to hide

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ