MapmyIndia announces wider availability of RealView; Google’s cookie cutting timeline pushed to 2024

CE Info Systems, better known as MapmyIndia, an advanced digital maps and location tech provider, yesterday announced the wider availability of its Mappls RealView, a made-in-India 360-degree panoramic street view and 3D metaverse maps service. This coincides with Google’s relaunch of Street View in India. Swiggy’s delivery agents are protesting pay-out cuts. And, in more Google news, the search giant will keep the cookies in Chrome, after all. At least until 2024, now. Notes: CE Info Systems, better known as MapmyIndia, an advanced digital maps and location tech provider, yesterday announced the wider release of its Mappls RealView, a made-in-India 360-degree panoramic street view and 3D metaverse maps service. MapmyIndia’s announcement coincides with Google relaunching its Street View feature on Google Maps in India yesterday. The service is available on the company’s free mapping portal, Mappls.com on the web for mobile and desktop and the Mappls App on Android and iOS, MapmyIndia said in a press release. “Users can virtually explore India like never before and see and interact with full 360-degree panoramas of streets and roads looking out into various tourist, residential and commercial areas of cities and travel destinations as well as highways,” CEO Rohan Verma said in the release. Users can also experience immersive 3D maps for pan India and detailed interactive 3D models of iconic tourist, commercial and residential landmarks across India. MapmyIndia has combined detailed house-address level 2D maps with ISRO’s rich catalogue of satellite imagery and Earth observation data, to provide an immersive 3D experience, according to the company. Swiggy’s delivery agents have been striking in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi after the food delivery service provider cut their pay-outs, Economic Times reports. India’s food and groceries delivery businesses, including listed company Zomato, are operating at a loss, burning through venture capital funds. Google, yesterday, said it will now hold off until 2024, in the latest update on its plans to replace third-party cookies for advertising, CNBC reports. “The most consistent feedback we’ve received is the need for more time to evaluate and test the new Privacy Sandbox technologies before deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome,” Anthony Chavez, Google’s VP of privacy sandbox, wrote in a blog post. “As developers adopt these APIs, we now intend to begin phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome in the second half of 2024.” Cookies are small pieces of code in websites, tracking people’s visits and clicks, and helping advertisers push targeted ads. Google had said last year it would end support for cookies in its Chrome browser by early 2022 once it figured out how to address the needs of users, publishers and advertisers and come up with tools to ease workarounds, according to CNBC. Now Google won’t make the change for another two years. Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds: https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds