GPS Navigation in Pakistan
A good summary post by Shahid Saeed on the topic of automotive navigation in Pakistan appeared recently at Pakistaniat and other blogs. Last year I spent some time evaluating the feasibility of making the portable navigation devices ‘connected’ in US and EU. By including a SIM in these gps based devices, one could combine location based features with search and other internet functionality. The idea was good but the market was not ready for that – the main factors were the high cost of data and the competition from mobile phones, which now have almost the same functionality as a stand-alone portable navigation device. In the US the phone companies are making a lot of money by offering network based navigation (turn-by-turn directions) services on the phone.
These pictures are via Shahid’s post. He writes: these pictures show a drive from my home in Rawalpindi to Jinnah Super Market in Islamabad. The maps were of course not up to date, but will provide a relief to somebody new in the city.
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[...] for developing countries is the data availability, accuracy and the maintenance of information. GPS navigation in Pakistan is in its early stages as [...]
Great.Unexpected good news from pakistan
Sorry, should have mentioned great post! Waiting on the next post!
Great.Unexpected good news from pakistan
Very good! This is really a good news. There a lot of uses of GPS navigation. Yes, Zaheer is right, the cost of using this technology must be affordable.
Anyhow, hope for the best.
we have to make it affordable before launching it in pakistan on the mass scale
This is very cool… i was thinking dont know when we will have this facility. i hope this technology will grow to others cities.
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