Earlier this month, Ola launched its personal maps product, Ola Maps, turning into the second main indigenous participant, moreover MapmyIndia, to compete towards Google Maps.
In keeping with sources, CE Data Techniques — the father or mother entity of MapMyIndia — has accused Ola Electrical of copying its knowledge to construct Ola Maps.
It has alleged that Ola cached and saved the info, and reverse engineered a licensed product.
When contacted, an Ola Electrical spokesperson mentioned, “Ola Electrical needs to deal with the latest claims made by CE Data Techniques Restricted (CE Data) in relation to the alleged points with Ola Maps vis-à-vis MapmyIndia and reported in information media. We wish to state unequivocally that these allegations are false, malicious and deceptive. Ola Electrical stands by the integrity of its enterprise practices. We’ll suitably reply to the discover shortly.”
‘knowledge theft’
Whereas businessline couldn’t get a replica of the authorized submitting, a media report has quoted a authorized doc despatched to Ola Electrical by CE Data Techniques which learn, “You’ve duplicated our shopper’s API (software programming interface) and SDKs (software program growth kits) from proprietary sources belonging to our shopper to construct Ola Maps. It’s firmly said that our shopper’s unique knowledge has been copied/derived by you to additional your unlawful motive and to your unjust industrial good points.” MapmyIndia declined to remark when businessline reached out to it.
Through the launch of Ola Maps, CEO Bhavish Aggarwal talked about that the in-house navigational product would consequence within the firm saving ₹100 crore a 12 months.
Earlier than this, the cab hailing firm was utilizing providers of exterior mapping suppliers like MapmyIndia and Google Maps.
Trip-hailing firm Ola Cabs had for the primary time introduced a partnership with MapmyIndia again in 2015 by means of a multi-year licence to hunt entry to its mapping knowledge.
Subsequently, in 2022, Ola Electrical onboarded MapMyIndia’s providers on to the S1 Professional electrical scooter.
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