The map of India gives an overview about the country and helps you in a number of ways. Especially for foreign tourists who want to visit the country and the inland tourists who want to travel from one place to another, the map of India is of great help. Gone are the days where we used paper maps. Now you have online maps that give you accurate details about any place. This facility is offered by http://maps.google.co.in and http://wikimapia.org. You can get any geographical data about any place and can also find driving distances from one place to another with the help these maps. You will be surprised to see even your house in the maps that they are very accurate and can be maximized to see even trees and trucks on the road.

There are various types of map of India like India political map, India railways map, India road map, districts maps, tourist maps, city maps, etc. If you want to travel by train then you have to look at the railway map to find out the shortest routes by train to any desired destination. For finding directions and distance in road map all you have to do is to drag and draw a line between two places that you want and you will get the distance and directions in a step by step manner. The tourist maps give you all the information about the tourist spots, the climate and weather of the place and the places of interest.

The map of India also helps you in your business developments. You can list your places or business premises in the map to be found out by other people who may require your service. This is a free service offered by Google maps and some other organizations. In this way the map of India helps in the economic development of the nation. If you want to know the geographical details about a place like terrain, altitude, etc. then the geographic map of India will help you. There is no need for a separate atlas as you have the online map system where there is frequent updating of the changes. So you can get the current information from the map of India anytime.

All the Indian maps that you find online are current maps. But what to do if you want any old maps of the past era or past decade? You still have them in some websites like http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html. You can get all the historical maps of India in this site. You can even get the maps that are few centuries old. In this way you can know the colonial domination of French or Portuguese over India at a particular point of time. You may also know the age old geographical features of the country. All these maps of India are informative, educative, detailed and serve their purpose well. Thanks to the modern technology that the pictures are captured from the satellites placed above the earth.

Article Posted By : Sumazla  On November 25, 2011lView All Articles

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