{"id":895704,"date":"2025-01-14T11:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=895704"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:37:46","slug":"google-apple-remove-offline-navigation-app-maps-me-after-government-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/14\/google-apple-remove-offline-navigation-app-maps-me-after-government-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Apple remove offline navigation app MAPS.Me after government orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Apple have removed MAPS.Me \u2013 offline navigation app from Play Store and App Store. According to a report by MoneyControl, the app wrongly depicted the external boundary of India. In December 2024, MAPS.Me was sent a notice under Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act, 2000, by the Survey of India (SoI) to Google&#8217;s nodal officer, Priyadarshi Banerjee. The notice highlights inaccuracies in the depiction of the Union Territories of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh in the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Apple have removed MAPS.Me \u2013 offline navigation app from Play Store and App Store. According to a report by MoneyControl, the app wrongly depicted the external boundary of India. In December 2024, MAPS.Me was sent a notice under Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act, 2000, by the Survey of India (SoI) to Google&#8217;s nodal officer, Priyadarshi Banerjee. The notice highlights inaccuracies in the depiction of the Union Territories of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh in the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}