He claimed that the in-house tool is outperforming competitors on location accuracy, Search accuracy, Search latency and other key metrics.
Aggarwal’s post shared a “deep dive” blog on Ola Maps.
“We’ve been using Western apps to map India for too long and they don’t get our unique challenges: street names, urban changes, complex traffic, non-standard roads etc. Ola Maps tackles these with AI-powered India-specific algorithms, real-time data from millions of vehicles, leveraging and contributing massively to open source (5 million plus edits just last year!),” according to his post.
The Ola founder in May this year announced that Ola would snap ties with Microsoft’s Azure cloud and shift workloads to the cloud service of its sister firm Krutrim AI.
Last week, Aggarwal declared that Ola Cabs has fully exited Google Maps and will be using its own in-house Ola Maps, leading to lucrative savings for the company.
“After Azure exit last month, we’ve now fully exited Google Maps. We used to spend Rs 100 crore a year but we’ve made that zero this month by moving completely to our in-house Ola maps!” he said.