The leading map & GPS navigation services provider in India – MapmyIndia has hooked up with GPS device maker Garmin to offers its services on Garmin GPS devices. MapmyIndia has announced that its maps are now compatible with Garmin GPS devices, and the users can now install its India maps on their Garmin GPS device.

According to MapmyIndia, its database, offering maps of 202 cities, 130,000 towns and villages, 450,000 point of interests, and navigation to 640,000 unique reachable destinations across India, is now compatible with Garmin GPS devices; it is available for Garmin GPS devices; the Garmin users will now be able to access its Indian maps.

In its press release, MapmyIndia stated that the Garmin device users, particularly foreign travelers to India, who haven’t been able to use their GPS devices in India up to now, will now be able to MapmyIndia maps to make their travels safe, secure and stress-free in India.

MapmyIndia has notified that its India maps are compatible with/available for Nüvi 2xx, 2xxW, 6xx, 7xx and 13xx series Garmin devices. The maps gets available on an SD card and incorporated technology, integrated with the Garmin devices, which are available for about Rs 7000.

Making its maps compatible with Garmin GPS devices, MapmyIndia has triggered a new market in India; the market of selling maps for GPS devices. The business is pretty popular in other tech savvy countries where GPS devices are often used, but it’s new in India. The new market opened up because the foreign travelers using GPS devices were asking for maps. MapmyIndia has decided to make its maps compatible with Garmin GPS devices, responding to the growing demands Indian maps among the foreign travelers.      

Rakesh Verma, managing director, MapmyIndia said, “With the growth in demand for MapmyIndia Navigators we also received queries from users of other GPS devices. They were interested in knowing if, and when, they would be able to use MapmyIndia maps on their devices. There were similar queries from foreign travellers – both business travellers and tourists – who could not use fully utilize their Garmin devices in India because of lack of good quality digital maps. Therefore, it was natural for MapmyIndia to make available the India maps for other devices, starting with Garmin devices.”