GPS player, SatNav Technologies today announced a new strategic partnership with Survey of India (SOI) whereby SatNav will use maps from SOI to offer more value added products to its customers.

SatNav will now be able to release SOI-approved digital maps and custom map content within the public domain for commercial use in range of navigation as well as well as LBS in mobile and personal navigation systems.

Meanwhile SatNav also announced that its releasing a new enhanced map database to cover 404 cities and 16 lakh Points of Interest (POIs).

SatNav says that the new maps will have enhanced features such as more POI content, accuracy, road network validation, gap in median and turn restrictions.

On this occasion Amit Prasad, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SatNav Technologies said, “SatNav has always been working with highest quality standards and systematic approach but the Survey of India tie-up will instill more confidence in our existing clients and partners and will also give us an edge over others. We are proud to partner with SOI and with this enhancement of our map database we expect to continue to deliver premium and prompt service to all customers and partners. We are constantly building navigation applications keeping in mind our end user and through this map enhancement we expect to meet the growing market demand for navigation, map and location-based services and technologies.”

Major General R.S. Tanwar, Additional Surveyor General of India commented, “Survey of India is happy to sign MOU with SatNav Technologies Pvt. Ltd. for generation of Value Added Products and services to meet the salient needs of the society which should be customer focused. It should serve the larger needs of society to get benefitted from core data/sets (Digital topographic database) generated by Survey of India by identifying their user specific needs. It will certainly help in improving the quality of life. SatNav should take a leading role through generation of versatile; user friendly and cost viable products on SOI’s core data for immense utility to them, in time to come.”