Google Adds Landmarks To Driving Directions It launched driving directions to Google Maps in April and has now added landmark related information which it crowd-sourced using MapMaker which allows users to ... Continue_Reading

Nokia’s navigation subsidiary Navteq has added 44 Indian cities to its maps, enabling street-level details, turn-by-turn navigation and directions for users. It now covers a total of 84 Indian ... Continue_Reading

Update 2: We don’t have Reliance GSM, so haven’t been able to try the service out. Following our request, BigMaps has shared the following eight screenshots of the WAP service: Business ... Continue_Reading

Tata Indicom has launched Quickfinder service with maps, navigation and location awareness. It announced plans with Qualcomm in September last year but has commercially deployed the service only now. The service ... Continue_Reading

Google India has finally rolled out driving directions for Google Maps online, and both driving and walking directions for Google Maps on mobile.  This addition to Google Maps has been pending ... Continue_Reading

Vishy Poosala, Head of Bell Labs India showcased a few products in the location based segment at EmTech India. For tracking traffic, they developed Teleport, a patent pending high tech, ... Continue_Reading

Yesterday, I got a message from a friend asking me to sign up for Google Latitude – a significant upgrade in the company’s Google Maps service that is also live ... Continue_Reading

If you were at Comsnets 2009, it would appear to you that location based services is the next big thing; the only problem, as Karthee Madasamy of Qualcomm Ventures pointed ... Continue_Reading

At the business track at Comsnets 2009 in Bangalore, Marc Naddell, VP Partner & Developer Programs at NAVTEQ gave some inputs on trends around location based services, both in terms ... Continue_Reading