Unique guide map for 'Greater Hyderabad'

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MARCH 20. For the first time, Hyderabad will have a detailed guide map, drawn to scale, covering over 800 sq km of area falling under the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad and nine adjoining municipalities, which together constitute `Greater Hyderabad'.

The unique thing about the 40 page map being brought out by MapWorld Technologies, a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) company, is that it will show landmarks like hotels, apartment buildings, and lanes, and even petrol pumps!

As of now, such maps are available only for Delhi, Pune and Ahmedabad, according to Mr. G.S. Kumar, Chairman (who was earlier with the Survey of India), and Mr. L. Vijayanand Reddy, Managing Director.

The first edition being brought out on an ``experimental basis'' will be released on March 25. The second edition will be brought out in a few months time. The company has ambitions of bringing out digital maps of major cities, subject to certain regulations governing the land.

The company is organising a GIS event called ``Digital India'' here on July 6 and 7, with focus on `Facilities Management (Infrastructure)', they said.

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