Akshata Sharma
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Ola Cabs' Bhavish Aggarwal wrote today on X that it is time for Indian developers to "exit" Google Maps, and as an incentive, announced one-year free access to all developers to Ola Maps, accessible via the Al-driven Krutrim platform. Also, registered developers will be allotted over Rs 100 crore in free credits.
Last week, the ridesharing company Ola exited Google Maps and shifted to in-house Ola Maps for cab operations. The move saved the company nearly Rs 100 crore a year.
A few months ago, Ola quit Microsoft Azure to shift to an in-house Al-driven management platform, Krutrim.
The Bangalore-based company is now pushing users to subscribe to their India-made platform.
A blog attached to the X post, written by Aggarwal's team, said that Ola Maps addresses India's unique mapping challenges using Al-powered algorithms and real-time data from millions of vehicles. The company outperforms competitors on location accuracy, search latency, and ETA accuracy. Ola Maps is designed to utilize diverse data sets and provide real-time updates for accurate mapping.
"We've been using western apps to map India for too long, and they don't get our unique challenges: street names, urban changes, complex traffic, non-standard roads, etc," Aggarwal wrote.
"We're outperforming competitors on location accuracy, search accuracy, search latency and ETA accuracy," he shared.
He also wrote that Ola Maps uses a variety of data sources to provide real-time updates for accurate mapping data.
The Al-driven data systems use data from millions of vehicles, Ola S1 with 360 cameras, open-source government data, OpenStreetMap, and proprietary sources to create essential map features.
Last month, Aggarwal moved his company's workload to the in-house Al platform Krutrim, cutting ties with Microsoft Azure.
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