Nine new ways to look at a map.
| Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 | --shivku |
Here in India, we speak several hundred languages amongst the billion of us. Even the Government officially recognizes 23 of them. No single person can possibly learn all Indian Languages in his lifetime and so, most of us make do with a few. Yahoo! India Maps ( http://in.maps.yahoo.com ) is no exception. After sitting through a lot of language courses, Yahoo! India Maps has now learnt to speak nine languages (Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Kannda & Malayalam) apart from English. Watch out for the "Vernacular" button along with "Map", "Satellite" and "Hybrid" buttons to see an area in it's primary language. We have covered the major cities and towns and will expand the "Language Map view" to other regions in the time to come.
For us in the team, Maps in vernacular languages is magical. Because for once, our Grand-moms and Grand-dads will get to see and understand what we do all day long sitting at Yahoo!.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Amazing stuff, great value, futuristic work, thank you Shivku n team, rock on.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Great work guys, this is great to see the new technologies allowing people to renew with their traditions.