What are the factors you kept in mind while conceptualising Eicher Delhi Map?
While conceptualising, we kept four factors in mind: First of all, it has to be user-friendly. Secondly, it should cover the entire contiguous urban sprawl, which included Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad. Thirdly, it should meet the needs of the user i.e. the Dellh-ites, business community, tourists, etc. The fourth point was that it had to be up-to-date. • What problems you faced during the process and how you managed them? All cartographers base their maps on government maps, be it in UK or USA. However, we could not base it on SoI maps due to two reasons. Firstly, SoI maps didnt have the amount of details we wanted and secondly SoI only allows one to publish maps on scales smaller than the scale of the SoI Map on which it is based. The other problem we faced was that all the streets of Delhi were not named, so we decided to landmark even house and block numbers.. We decided to use the latest high-resolution satellite imageries and lay out plans of various colonies. For Delhi
