Bhavish Aggarwal has eyes on creating yet another Unicorn – after taking Ola, Ola Electric and most recently Krutrim to the $1 Bn valuation club. But can Ola Maps dethrone the likes of Google Maps, MapmyIndia? 👀

Ola Maps has been making headlines a lot recently:

🔶  For one, Aggarwal claimed that Google Maps reduced prices for certain core APIs by up to 70% in response to the Ola Maps launch. But Developers that use the Google Maps API told Inc42 that Google had already announced a price reduction a few months before Aggarwal tweeted about Ola Maps.

🔶  Then, Ola was hit by a legal notice from listed mapping major

MapmyIndia for alleged data theft and reverse engineering Ola Maps by duplicating MapmyIndia APIs.

🔶  Soon after, Aggarwal dismissed this notice as being opportunistic.

Out of nowhere, India’s mapping services space has become a hotbed of competition, controversy and allegations. Ola and Aggarwal are at the centre of this frenzy, and the CEO is supremely confident that Ola Maps will be the next big thing from the house of Ola.

But does Ola Maps even have a shot in this market, where the incumbents have decades of expertise and experience? Here’s a snapshot of how they compare 👇 

Credit - Inc42 Media