New Delhi

Microsoft launches live search maps

NEW DELHI: Microsoft India has launched its map services – Live Search Maps – that will initially offer detailed listings and street maps for nine cities, business listings across 29 cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities.

Addressing a press conference here, Microsoft India Consumer and Online Marketing Operations Head Rishi Sriva- stava said: “Live Search Maps for India will allow users to search for geographical information, places of general interest and business listings both on PC and cell-phones.”

Informing that the first version of the local mapping service for India has been developed by the company’s India Development Centre (IDC) in Hyderabad, Mr. Srivastava said Live Search Maps has detailed listings and street maps of the four metros besides Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad and Jaipur.

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