New Delhi: Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Monday urged Indian developers to avoid Google Maps and wooed them with a year of free access to Ola Maps, as the prominent tech entrepreneur highlighted how his in-house navigation tool is "outperforming" its rivals in metric wrenches.
Aggarwal's latest post offering incentives for Indian developers to try Ola Maps comes just days after his announcement that Ola has abandoned Google Maps and moved to its in-house navigation tools and technologies for taxi operations.
The Ola chief executive officer, who has championed the cause of India's digital sovereignty in the past, argued that Western apps for mapping India have been used for "too long."
Stating that such systems do not recognize unique challenges such as street names, urban changes and complex traffic, Aggarwal stated that Ola Maps addresses these issues with India-specific algorithms powered by artificial intelligence and real-time data from millions. vehicular.
"After #ExitAzure, it's time for Indian developers to #ExitGoogleMaps! 1 YEAR FREE access for all developers to Ola Maps on @Krutrim, over 100 crores in free credits!" he wrote in post X.
He claimed the in-house tool is outperforming the competition in location accuracy, search accuracy, search latency and other key metrics.
Aggarwal's post shared a 'deep dive' blog on Ola Maps.
"We have been using Western apps to map India for too long and they don't understand our unique challenges: street names, urban changes, complex traffic, non-standard roads, etc. Ola Maps addresses these challenges with India-specific AI technology . algorithms, real-time data from millions of vehicles, leveraging and contributing massively to open source (over 5 million edits last year!)," according to his post.
The Ola founder announced in May this year that Ola will sever ties with Microsoft's Azure cloud and move workloads to its sister company Krutrim AI's cloud service.
Last week, Aggarwal stated that Ola Cabs has completely abandoned Google Maps and will use its own in-house Ola Maps, resulting in lucrative savings for the company.
"After the exit of Azure last month, we have now completely exited Google Maps. We used to spend Rs 100 crore a year, but this month we went to zero by completely moving to our internal Ola maps." he said.
Aggarwal's latest post offering incentives for Indian developers to try Ola Maps comes just days after his announcement that Ola has abandoned Google Maps and moved to its in-house navigation tools and technologies for taxi operations.
The Ola chief executive officer, who has championed the cause of India's digital sovereignty in the past, argued that Western apps for mapping India have been used for "too long."
Stating that such systems do not recognize unique challenges such as street names, urban changes and complex traffic, Aggarwal stated that Ola Maps addresses these issues with India-specific algorithms powered by artificial intelligence and real-time data from millions. vehicular.
"After #ExitAzure, it's time for Indian developers to #ExitGoogleMaps! 1 YEAR FREE access for all developers to Ola Maps on @Krutrim, over 100 crores in free credits!" he wrote in post X.
He claimed the in-house tool is outperforming the competition in location accuracy, search accuracy, search latency and other key metrics.
Aggarwal's post shared a 'deep dive' blog on Ola Maps.
"We have been using Western apps to map India for too long and they don't understand our unique challenges: street names, urban changes, complex traffic, non-standard roads, etc. Ola Maps addresses these challenges with India-specific AI technology . algorithms, real-time data from millions of vehicles, leveraging and contributing massively to open source (over 5 million edits last year!)," according to his post.
The Ola founder announced in May this year that Ola will sever ties with Microsoft's Azure cloud and move workloads to its sister company Krutrim AI's cloud service.
Last week, Aggarwal stated that Ola Cabs has completely abandoned Google Maps and will use its own in-house Ola Maps, resulting in lucrative savings for the company.
"After the exit of Azure last month, we have now completely exited Google Maps. We used to spend Rs 100 crore a year, but this month we went to zero by completely moving to our internal Ola maps." he said.
