It’s not perfect, but the GPS device from MapMyIndia does a decent job of telling you how to reach any place
I don’t like rolling down my car window to ask for directions, but, yes, I have driven in circles and made stupid excuses for reaching late and yelled at people who stick political posters on maps and road signs. Now there is a solution. Actually, it has been there for quite some time.

A typical day for me involves meetings with customers, and I have to travel extensively since Delhi is now growing into the NCR, spread over towns in adjoining Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. Finding an address is often difficult, and even if you roll down the window to ask for directions, the left turns and right turns will just leave you driving in circles again.

So, I started using a GPS about seven years ago when there were no online maps for India. This was before Maps of India, MapMyIndia, Sat Guide and other companies came along. Before we realised, the market was flooded with GPS, pseudo GPS and even mobile phones promising to help you locate places quicker.

Two weeks back I bumped into Rakesh Verma, founder of mapmyindia.com. After a long chat, I asked him to send over a unit so that I could test it firsthand. A week later, I had a brand new GPS unit installed in my car.
The first day, (I had not bothered to read the manual), I could not get it right. But, I knew it had to work. Later, I took the GPS on trips in the NCR and then to Himachal. I even packed it for a trip to Mumbai and used it in the cab. And it worked.

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