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Google Maps gets streetwise in India with AI, expands across 3,000 cities

Mapping platform gets over 50 million searches daily; introduces new features including address-based descriptor

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Ashutosh MishraShivani Shinde New Delhi | Mumbai
A year after the panoramic Street View was launched in India, Google Maps now allows users to view and explore over 3,000 cities and towns in the country. Last year, Google had announced its tie-ups with Tech Mahindra and Genesys International, which gave access to images of buildings and streets to Google, which then deployed artificial intelligence (AI).

It allowed the company to extract details of over 300 million buildings and overlay them on maps. This ability to give precise information allows better search on Google Maps, according to Miriam Karthika Daniel, vice-president, maps experience, Google.

“Since we have been

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