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Bangalore: “Indian Map data quality is not upto the mark. I would say it has amazing opportunity for improvement,” said Marc Naddel, VP, Partner and Developer Programs of Navteq North America. He was expressing his views on map data quality during the one of the panel discussions on Location Based Technologies (LBS) at COMSNETS-09, an international conference on communication systems and networks, being held in Bangalore.

Data quality is an issue, because GIS information is not quite accurate in a dynamic environment. There’s a paucity of data that can be overlaid on top of what is already available. “But it’s an opportunity for all the players in the ecosystems to play their role to build a solid LBS ecosystem in India,” said Naddel. Also, it’s an opportunity for talented developers, platform providers to come up with innovative offerings based in India. These are interesting applications that can be built upon it,” he added.

India, with over a billion people, is one of the fastest growing markets in the world for wireless connectivity and one of the last great frontiers for wireless location-based services. Clearly, the same issues that are being addressed worldwide – those of social networking, personal safety, enterprise efficiency, geographic information services and asset protection�are present in India. “The challenge remains how to provide compelling value to an Indian population, currently with teledensity of around 11 percent, that will accelerate the migration to not just wireless connectivity but also to key value-added services,” said Marc.
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