Telangana to be the first state to get Street View
Hyderabad, May 12 (INN): The Telangana delegation led by Information Technology Minister K Tarakarama Rao met with the Google Street View team of Manik Gupta, Director of Product Management and Narayana Tummala, Ground Truth Engineering Lead for Google.
While Street View has been extensively used in USA, Canada and many European countries, its applications in India have been limited so far. Google has launched Streetview in some of the tourist sites like Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar, etc in partnership with the Archaeological Society of India. The Streetview is also brought into the National Gallery of Modern art in India with a very high-resolution imagery.
Google is in talks with Minister of Home affairs to get their permissions for conducting the Streetview exercise at a city wide level. This permission is expected to be given shortly. Upon the request made by the Minister, Google has agreed to make Telangana the first state which will get Streetview for one complete city namely Hyderabad to begin with, with subsequent extension to other major cities and towns.
Google has also agreed to support specific requests made by the Minister to utilize Streetview for monitoring of deviations from approved building plans, property tax collection, mapping of industrial land bank located in different parts of the state, to name a few.
Getting this important commitment from Google StreetView to consider Telangana for piloting all their major initiatives in the country is seen as a major achievement for the state.
Google Fiber explored for Telangana
The delegation led by the IT Minister detailed the Google team about the Water grid project and how the same duct lines are going to be utilized to provide fiber optic cables to every household. Google has embarked on a similar project called Google Fiber, which is been piloted, in 8 cities in the USA like Kansas City, Austin, etc. Google has agreed to study the Telangana model in detail through their country team in India and explore the possibility of contributing to this project.
News Posted: 12 May, 2015
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