The Survey of India has signed an agreement with a Mumbai-based company, Genesys International, to prepare three-dimensional maps of several cities and towns.
This is knowns as ‘Digital Twins,’ and it is a first-of-its-kind initiative.
These maps are three-dimensional representations of cities and when coupled with high-resolution images, can be used in a variety of planning applications.
So far, the company has built digital twins of Ayodhya, the Dharavi slum cluster in Mumbai, Kochi and Kanpur among other applications.