Live Search Maps, the new Microsoft India feature, has gone live in India and promises to offer users access to detailed listings and street maps for nine cities in the country.
This is the first version of its local mapping service for India and the main features have been developed by the Microsoft India Development Centre (MSIDC) based in Hyderabad.
It has been said that Microsoft has, over the past couple of years, made huge investments into research and development for Live Search. It had also acquired global resources and introduced several new features to make it work without a hassle. According to Microsoft India, the feature would also offer users access to business listings across 29 Indian cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns. Users can now search for geographical information, places of general interest and business listings both on the PC and mobile.
Live Search Maps will be accessible on the PC and the mobile, thus ensuring that users get the information they need anytime. The feature will be available at http://m.live.co.in too, the company said.
The company has said that this is the first version of Live Search Maps for India. This, in fact, means that Microsoft will continue to introduce new features and improvements in the near future.
With the new Live Search Maps, uses can access addresses, roads, localities, landmarks, detailed street maps and places of general interest such as monuments, restaurants, hotels and other places of interest across nine Indian cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Jaipur.
These apart, the business listings across 29 major Indian cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Agra, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Kochi, Coimbatore, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mangalore, Nagpur, Nashik, Patiala, Patna, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara and Vishakapatnam. Basic geographical information on the national road network of India across 20,000 cities and towns will also be available.
Microsoft India said that the Live Search Maps for India has as its key components street maps, location search, business listing search, routing or directions for navigation and options for users to print, share collections through email, blogs on Windows Live.
The company plans to add new features such as landmark-based driving directions, collections search, options for enterprise customers and developer community to create custom mash-ups, along with satellite imagery and related features for India and important cities. Powered by the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform, the new feature draws information through multiple local vendor partners like NavTeq and uses government-approved data after he took a gamble on unconventional movies. Kapoor bounced back and now after
