Complicated addresses in India?

Why are addresses in India so complicated? This will surely prevent any useful mapping and/or GPS to take off …. despite the large number of users who could potentially use it. MapMyIndia and VirtualIndia are the two stabs taken I know of.

As a good example one of my friends email signature used to read:

4th Floor, No. 31 Grape Garden, 6th Block, 17th H. Main
Koramangala – 560095, Karnataka, India

till he moved to New Delhi and now it reads:

Sapient Tower D&E, DLF Cyber Greens,
DLF City Phase III, Sector 25A
Gurgaon 122002

February 12th, 2006 in Funny, India, Technology
  • Mapyouraddress.com is another community based effort at creating a searchable list of addresses/streets in India.
  • Thanks shashi for the info and for making a convincing pitch. Will try out the features soon!
  • MapmyIndia v-2007 is just like Google Maps/Yahoo Maps. In fact, even better, MapmyIndia is focused on India. Visit www.mapmyindia.com today.

    If you want to see your house on a map (the street actually), visit MapmyIndia (http://www.mapmyindia.com)

    This is an Indian company's initiative at creating an internet map site that will come up and do as much as Google and Mapquest has done. We're also adding an Indian twist to the things we do. Check out this concept called 'eLocation' MapmyIndia has introduced.

    eLocation allows you to get maps and directions to a peron's place, and the cool thing is that it gives you the directions in the words of that person (take a left after you see a panwallah, go inside that gate...u know, how people explani directions in India).

    Search for this sample elocation and you'll see what I mean. The id is: mapmyindia

    Looking forward to your comments on the blog or through mail (my email address is: shashi@mapmyindia.com)

    Thanks and hope you can enjoy India in much much more detail =)
    Shashi Prakash (on behalf of the MapmyIndia team)
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