The two biggest names in community created online free for all maps are OpenStreetMap and Google MapMaker. A bunch of volunteers have dedicated huge time in creating maps for many cities of Pakistan and I’ll be explaining the extent to which these maps are effective later on. But they have been gracious enough to provide software (and people have developed even better ones) to create maps capable of running on their GPS devices. They don’t see a reason why they should do so. The biggest player in satellite navigation today, Garmin and TomTom have not developed any maps for Pakistan. While major companies are not keen in investing here keeping in mind the not so high revenue they would generate, the people have themselves not created maps for themselves because they want everything for free or others to do such things for themselves. Improper urban planning, lack of technical infrastructure and lack of voluntary efforts are the three main reasons SatNav has remained ineffective for Pakistan. Sadly, we Pakistanis have long been deprived of this technology but finally we have working SatNav in Pakistan. The bigger the city, the more the need for a navigation system is. These devices are used extensively in major cities around the globe by everyday people, taxi drivers and people new a the city or town. Automotive Navigation Systems have become extremely popular all over the world today.
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