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Yahoo! India has introduced maps in local languages and walking directions, available on its existing Yahoo! India maps at http://in.maps.yahoo.com.
Yahoo! India Maps is now available in Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi apart from English.
With walking directions users can walk to their destinations with a simple walking route. These directions can be sent to a mobile phone as an SMS. There is also an option to pan and zoom to any point on the map, save it as an image and share it with others.
Yahoo! India users can search for directions across 179 cities, 4,767 towns, and 226,114 villages. Users can also search for over 3 million points of interest already marked by Internet users from around the web.
Gopal Krishna, Head of Audience, Yahoo! India, said “At Yahoo! India, we are constantly developing innovative products and services that provide compelling experiences to our users. For the first time in India, walking directions and maps in local languages are being introduced by Yahoo! India. This aligns well with Yahoo! India’s overall strategy of enabling more users to experience the Internet on a PC or Mobile.”
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