Hyderabad|India|August'2009: SatNav Technologies, pioneers in GPS Navigation in India, has announced a strategic tie-up to use Survey of India (SOI) maps and build valueadded products for consumers. SOI is India’s principal mapping agency.The agreement allows SatNav Technologies to release the SOI-approved digital mapsand custom map content within the public domain for commercial use in a rangeof navigation and location-based solutions (LBS) in the mobile and personalnavigation system.

In another announcement, SatNav Technologies also informed that theyare releasing an enhanced map data base, being created since the year 2000, tonow cover 404 cities and 16 lakh Points of Interest (POIs). The enhanced mapswould have enhanced features like more POI content, accuracy, road networkvalidation, gap in median and turn restrictions. The maps areconstantly enhanced and on the anvil are plans to grow this to 500 cities, 30lakh destinations, and ultimately the 6 lakh villages across the country.

SatNavwitnessed a multi-fold growth last year. With the increase in the POIs andnumber of cities covered across India, SatNav aims to further ramp up itsgrowth in this fiscal. The current partnership with SOI will help SatNavTechnologies take this map making initiative to an entirely new plane and alsocomply with the regulations of the Government of India and the provisions ofthe National Mapping Policy while offering much improved solutions to itsconsumers.

On this occasion Amit Prasad, Founder and Chief Executive Officer,SatNav Technologies said, “SatNav has always been working with highest qualitystandards and systematic approach but the Survey of India tie-up will instillmore confidence in our existing clients and partners and will also give us anedge over others. We are proud to partner with SOI and with this enhancement ofour map database we expect to continue to deliver premium and prompt service toall customers and partners. We are constantly building navigation applicationskeeping in mind our end user and through this map enhancement we expect to meetthe growing market demand for navigation, map and location-based services andtechnologies.”

Major General R.S. Tanwar, Additional Surveyor General of India says,“Survey of India is happy to sign MOU with SatNav Technologies Pvt. Ltd. forgeneration of Value Added Products and services to meet the salient needs ofthe society which should be customer focused. It should serve the larger needsof society to get benefitted from core data/sets (Digital topographic database)generated by Survey of India by identifying their user specific needs. It willcertainly help in improving the quality of life. SatNav should take a leadingrole through generation of versatile; user friendly and cost viable products onSOI’s core data for immense utility to them, in time to come.”