Logistics major Delhivery on Wednesday announced that it is advancing the development of digital mapping solutions tailored to India’s complex geography and distinctive addressing systems, in collaboration with NVIDIA.
The initiative, unveiled at the India AI Summit, will see Delhivery leverage NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack — including CV-CUDA and Nemotron open models — to design scalable, AI-driven maps that are locally contextualised for Indian conditions. The project will be powered by Delhivery’s proprietary dataset built from billions of shipments handled across the country over several years.
Addressing India’s Mapping Challenges
India’s geographic diversity, rapid urbanisation and largely informal addressing systems pose significant hurdles for conventional global mapping platforms. Addresses frequently depend on landmarks, colloquial locality names, vernacular references and non-standardised sequencing rather than precise latitude-longitude coordinates.
To overcome these complexities, Delhivery is evaluating advanced AI capabilities such as:
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Address disambiguation to differentiate between phonetically similar localities
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Contextual inference to interpret unstructured and incomplete address descriptions
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Predictive sequencing to optimise last-mile delivery routes in dense and unplanned urban clusters
The company aims to enhance last-mile efficiency, reduce delivery errors and improve operational precision, particularly in Tier-II, Tier-III cities and semi-urban areas where standardised addressing is limited.
AI at the Core of Logistics Innovation
Kapil Bharati, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Delhivery, said India requires mapping solutions that can operate at national scale while understanding the on-ground realities of its streets.
“Bharat needs mapping solutions that operate at scale and can understand the pulse of its streets. Standard global mapping tools often struggle with nuances of Indian addresses,” he said.
Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Asia South, NVIDIA, noted that the company’s AI infrastructure and open models are helping organisations convert complex datasets into actionable insights. He added that Delhivery’s initiative illustrates how AI-powered geospatial technologies can address large-scale mapping challenges unique to India.
The collaboration marks a significant step toward building indigenous, AI-enabled digital infrastructure to support India’s fast-growing logistics and e-commerce ecosystem, while potentially setting new benchmarks in geospatial intelligence for emerging markets.
