Survey of India and Indian Oil Corporations Limited (IOCL) have roped in MapmyIndia Mappls for digital maps, deep-tech products and IoT suite of solutions.
Survey of India will engage MapmyIndia Mappls for its National Geo Platform while IOCL will leverage the company’s IoT based location tech solutions.
National Geo-Platform of Survey of India
The National Geo-Platform powered by the MapmyIndia Mappls platform is expected to serve as a robust and scalable system for standardising, sharing, and managing foundational geospatial datasets, including Ortho-Rectified Imagery, Digital Elevation Models (DEM), Administrative Boundaries, Geodetic Reference Frame, and Geographical Names.
It will facilitate seamless access to accurate and authoritative spatial data through web services, APIs, and mobile applications, promoting data interoperability and collaboration among Central Government Ministries and Departments, academia, and industry, and fostering innovation and sustainable development.
Key components of the platform include a Geospatial Data integration & dissemination System, Integrated Geospatial Application Interface (IGAI), and a Spatial Data Registry (SDR) for metadata management.
MapmyIndia Mappls solutions suite for IOCL
IOCL, India’s top oil marketing company, has roped in MapmyIndia Mappls to develop and deploy an Integrated & Enterprise level end-to-end solution on Centralized Vehicle Tracking & Management System (CVTMS) Solution for its entire fleet of LPG Truck Vehicles on a pan-India basis, including safety features like geo-fencing for its entire fleet of approximately 23,000 LPG trucks in almost 150 supply locations plying across India delivering LPG products to IOCL customers and on Stock Transfer between locations.
The solutions offered by MapmyIndia Mappls to IOCL include Geofencing and Virtual Perimeters, Route Generation & Optimization, Journey Risk Management, Fleet Visibility and Monitoring, Data Analytics and Insights, Compliance and Reporting and Emergency response.
These are expected to help IOCL in cost optimization, driver safety and asset security, operational efficiencies, better compliance, accident prevention, increased vehicle availability with reduced down time, and early detection of pilferage and evolving risks.
About MapmyIndia Mappls
MapmyIndia Mappls is a leading advanced digital maps and deep-tech company, popularly known in India as MapmyIndia and globally as Mappls. The company claims to offer proprietary digital maps as a service (MaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS), including its advanced digital map data, software products, platforms, application programming interfaces (APIs), IoT and solutions to new-age tech companies, large businesses, automotive OEMs, government organisations, developers and consumers.
Rakesh Verma, co-founder and Chairman & Managing Director, MapmyIndia Mappls, said, “It is a proud moment for us at MapmyIndia Mappls to offer our solutions and tech to two of India’s leading organizations that are of immense national importance – Survey of India, which has been India’s premier topographic mapping agency for more than two centuries, and the Indian Oil Corporation, India’s leading oil manufacturing and marketing Maharatna company. MapmyIndia Mappls, which has been mapping the country for more than three decades to build India most comprehensive, accurate and hyperlocal digital map database and technology platform, will power Survey of India’s National Geo Platform while IOCL will leverage its IoT based location tech solutions. These alliances don’t just hold business significance but are a strong step towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government’s thrust to open up and de-colonise India’s geospatial sector. For India’s geospatial sector to achieve the targeted revenue ₹1 lakh crore by 2030, it is imperative that private enterprises be taken on board by the government and its agencies into strategic areas.”
Published – November 11, 2025 01:19 pm IST
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/survey-of-india-and-indian-oil-corporations-limited-iocl-rope-in-mapmyindia-mappls-for-digital-maps-deep-tech-products-and-iot-suite-of-solutions/article70266023.ece
