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INTERVIEW
Rakesh Verma Founder and Managing Director of MapmyIndia
Hyper-local mapping will revolutionize the navigation sector An innovator and a mapping pioneer, Rakesh Verma, Founder and Managing Director of MapmyIndia (MMI), formally known as C.E. Info Systems Ltd has been an active stakeholder in India’s geospatial industry for over three decades now. In an exclusive conversation with Jitendra Choubey, Geospatial Artha, he underlines that the future of the country’s thriving economy depends on the robust geospatial policy and MapmyIndia is at the forefront to ensure support to government agencies to capitalise on geospatial potential. GEOSPATIAL ARTHA Volume 01 » ISSUE 01
Journey of MapmyIndia For me, 1995 was a momentous year. I was in the US – the place where I stumbled upon the idea. During those days, people barely knew what mapping data was. But deep down, there was this determination and conviction to acquaint common users with digital mapping. Maps were there for thousands of years but no one thought of using it to share knowledge about territories, as is being done today. Now, mapping data shuttles between businesses, industries, ministries and different developmental projects. In the absence of any geospatial policy in the country, it took me long to build a new India. It was in 2021 that the Indian government liber-
