Location based services and maps company MapmyIndia has partnered (pdf) with a series of car makers to offer its GPS solutions on a range of car models. It's partnerships are across car manufacturers, for offering the GPS solution to their customers. MapmyIndia's partners include BMW, Jaguar-Land Rover, Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Renault, Mitsubishi, GM, Ford, Tata, Mahindra and Maruti, and the cars involved in this partnership include sedans like New Honda City, Tata Manza, Fiat Linea and Renault Scala; luxury sedans like the BMW 7, 5 and 3 series; SUVs (Sports Utility Vehicles) like Mahindra XUV 500, Mahindra Ssangyong Rexton and Ford Endeavour; and luxury SUVs like Jaguar Land Rover Freelander 2. These cars will have MapMyIndia Maps available on their built in navigation systems, thereby making it easier for customers to adopt/purchase the maps. MapmyIndia Maps 7.1: MapmyIndia has said that these car models will offer the company's navigation solution as part of its GPS navigation offering to their consumers. This solution includes the recently launched MapmyIndia Maps 7.1 which claims to cover 7.1 million places of interest, 1.9 million road kilometers, and 600,000 towns and villages. It also claims to provide maps for 4,751 cities with street level details, 39 cities with house level details and 36 cities with full 3D city models. Navigation Features: Besides this, the company stated that the solution will offer various navigation and driver assistance features like live traffic information and visual cues like extended lane guidance, junction views, signposts, city guides, regional voice guidance in nine regional languages, regional…
