Ola - Organised Editing

Ola is an India-based mobility company [1], it is India’s largest mobility platform. Ola is offering its ride-hailing platform & EVs across 3 continents.

Ola Maps

Ola operates a ride-hailing platform, which uses Ola Maps for mobility services.

Ola started organized editing of OSM data from March 2023 and publicly released Ola Maps, its in-house mapping platform on July 2024. The map platform includes basemaps built with OSM data, vehicle telemetry and other open sources along with location APIs built on a largely open source stack. SDKs for Android, iOS and Web are available for free developer access.

The location APIs available on the platform include turn by turn routing using OSRM, forward and reverse geocoding using pelias supporting multiple Indian languages, and vector tiles.

Ola Maps usage of OSM data

Ola Maps makes use of OSM as one of the data sources currently for the Indian subcontinent. OSM data is used for the road network, traffic signs and signals, buildings, natural features, landuse polygons and some POIs.

Ola Maps can be explored online, via the Ola Cabs mobile app or on a Ola vehicle.

Ola Map contributions to OSM data

Ola would like to be a part of the OSM community to help enrich 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.

The contributions from the Ola mapping team can be reviewed on OSMCha using the #ola changes filter.

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.

The #ola changesets can be reviewed by the community using

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 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.

External Links

• Ola Maps - Find Us
• Navigating India - The Journey of Ola Maps