Ola

About Ola

Ola is an India-based mobility company, it is India’s largest mobility platform and one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies. Ola has revolutionized urban mobility with its ride-hailing platform & EVs across 3 continents.

Contributions to map data

Ola contributes to OSM in many ways, making approved data edits in OSM, focusing on adding missing roads, adjusting road alignment as per imagery and GPS traces, and cities might be revisited based on new improvements and or internal requirements.

Usage of OSM maps by Ola

Ola Maps makes use of OSM as one of the data sources currently for the Indian subcontinent. Ola manufactures a range of electric vehicles, and a ride-hailing platform, which uses Ola Maps for shared mobility. Ola would like to be a part of the OSM community to help enrich map data.

Mapping Guidelines

The primary focus of OSM edits is data enrichment. Along with OSM data, various imagery sources are used - both collected and sourced - to help map the geography accurately.

Changeset Comments

In accordance with OSM changeset Guidelines, All edits made by the below team will use the #ola hashtag to identify changes.

Data team

Ola’s data team contributes to OSM’s coverage of India. For any questions please reach out to geocommunity@olacabs.com Below is a list of the team members supporting the mapping projects.

Data Editing Team
Sr no Name OSM ID
1 Vikram Bagade VikramBagade
2 Om Patekar om P
3 Pooja Koul Pooja Koul
4 Nilesh Barawkar Nilesh B
5 Tushar Valvi Tushar valvi
6 Nilesh Dhandak Nileshdhandak
7 Neharika Soudagar NeharikaS
8 Rajani Khairnar Rajanik

Data team guidelines

In addition to the rules that apply to the community of OSM editors, here are the guidelines that the Ola team adheres to and reiterates:

  1. Quality of data is our first priority. We hold ourselves to the highest mapping standards established as commonplace in the OSM community.
  2. We emphasize local knowledge. With our fleet of driver partners for Ola Cabs, we have access to real-time data sourced firsthand, in urban & rural geographies in India.
  3. All our data team members will be listed here on the OpenStreetMap wiki page, and are identified by their user profiles
  4. Ola will attribute this map according to ODbL guidelines.

Contact information

Please visit our website for updates. Head over our developers' portal.

Privacy policy

Ola maps uses map data proprietary to Ola, and freely available data © OpenStreetMap contributors. For further information please visit our website.

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