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MSN VirtualEarth India has launched high definition map of Bangalore City. This is one of the first few efforts in providing a mapping solution for India. Virtual India is a research project by Microsoft Research India, in collaboration with the Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology, powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth™ technology.
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We have street-level maps only of Bangalore (you can zoom down to Bangalore and view the street map of Bangalore in multiple languages). We have rendered these maps and translated street and place names ourselves. Bear in mind that there can be errors in both the underlying data and in the rendering and transliteration process. Do report any gross errors in our online forum and we’ll try to fix them. At this time, we have not enabled the full functionality of community pushpins. While you can search for a set of pre-loaded public pushpins (like “park”), we do not yet allow users to *add* public pushpins in this public version of Virtual India. We will enable adding of public pushpins in about a week – after we have had the chance to gauge the load on our servers and to respond to initial feedback on our site.

Looks like the folks at MSN Research have put in this data manually, so some of the information on the map can be incorrect. Its sickening to know , the local authorities don’t even have a proper map to help the Indian public. I recall my days in India where our Motorcycling Club used to depend on Lonely Planet maps rather than anything else available in the market for planning our routes.

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