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10 cr - Number of registered investors in India, according to National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE India)'s Market Pulse Aug-2024 issue. Latlong's analytics team looked into this, to put together some interesting insights, using Aaloka product: 6x - Growth in investors in under a decade Geographically distributed - Investors are coming from different parts of the country 10.3% - of voting population is now an investor, higher than countries like Indonesia & Brazil. Major implications for taxation policy - for example, contribution of capital gains to taxes. Write to us on other topics which our analytics team can look into, to provide such insights. #locationintelligence #investor

2.8x - Growth in #Location API calls by customers in 2024 over 2023. 22+ million in Aug-2024 - First time that monthly count has crossed 20 m. 11+ million API calls of Geocoding / Reverse Geocoding - Continue to be the popular APIs of Latlong for our customers. Considering the benchmark accuracy of these APIs, it is no surprise that customers find these popular. International APIs continue to see good uptake. Always grateful to our customers for their continued usage of Latlong #APIs. #maps Rahul R Sindaghatta Puranika Narayana Bhatta

Latlong Aaloka e2W report for August-2024 is out. Some highlights: 7% - Adoption in Aug-2024 of e2W (5.4% in Aug-2023) 6 - Number of states with double digit adoption 88% - Market share of Top-5 players 32% - Market share of Ola Electric (Top OEM); drop for 4 consecutive months 3x - Growth in e2W in UP, largest 2W market in India You will also find an interesting deep dive into performance of TVS Motor Company, in this report. As always, do comment on what you would like covered in these monthly reports. For demo and free trial licenses of Aaloka Auto module, please write to vikraya@latlong.ai. Puranika Narayana Bhatta Rahul R Sindaghatta

Ola Electric's IPO and launch of electric motor bikes, has created quite a sensation in the auto industry in India. #e2W (electric 2 Wheeler) market in India, has seen increased penetration. Latlong's Analytics team has put together a report on some interesting insights in e2W market in 2024: Ola Electric - While OLA continues to number 1, it has dropped market share from 53% in Apr-24 to 39% in Jul-24 Bajaj Auto Ltd - continues to gain share and has reached number 3 position; Bajaj is building on its strength in Maharashtra, by becoming Top player in the state 6.3% - India level penetration of e2W, continuing to increase; needs push in the largest 2W market of India, UP. Ather Energy - has been losing market share, esp in its largest market of Karnataka. Analysis uses Latlong's #Aaloka Auto module, which has unique location intelligence insights for analysts. Write to us, on what you would like covered in these reports. For free trial licenses, please write to vikraya@latlong.ai

We have opened a new office in Bengaluru, in the Ragi Gudda area in J P Nagara. Gives us an opportunity to expand our operations. We look forward to the blessings of the presiding deity of Ragi Gudda, Prasanna Anjaneyaswamy. We will be formally inaugurating the office with a pooja in a few days. It is always an added bonus to be surrounded by good food with some of Bengaluru's fine darshinis in the neighbourhood. Look forward to hosting folks at our office at Hubstairs Coworks Ragi Gudda.

We have opened a new office in Bengaluru, in the Ragi Gudda area in J P Nagara. Gives us an opportunity to expand our operations. We look forward to the blessings of the presiding deity of Ragi Gudda, Prasanna Anjaneyaswamy. We will be formally inaugurating the office with a pooja in a few days. It is always an added bonus to be surrounded by good food with some of Bengaluru's fine darshinis in the neighbourhood. Look forward to hosting folks at our office at Hubstairs Coworks Ragi Gudda.

In an X conversation, a question on popular place name suffixes in Karnataka came up. Sudarshan HS tagged Puranika Narayana Bhatta with a request for help with data. 30k+ towns and villages of Karnataka were analysed and the results are presented in some cool visualizations. 32% - Places with suffix ending in the popular Kannada word for village, ಹಳ್ಳಿ (halli). Interesting to see that these places have heavy concentration in the “Old Mysuru” region of the state. 10% - Places with suffix ‘Ooru’ (ಊರು) - literally means place in Kannada. Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, are well-known examples. One sees that this name is uniformly spread across the state.  A town is called पुरम् (Puram) in Samskrita and its derivative in Kannada is ‘Pura’ (ಪುರ). Siddapura, Yallapura – are a few examples. Almost 10% of the places in Karnataka use this suffix; this suffix shows uniform distribution across Karnataka. Settlement of people around water bodies is a well-known phenomenon. Karnataka is no exception. Kannada word for tanks / ponds – ಕೆರೆ (kere) is quite popular for place name. 3% places, primarily in Old Mysuru region have this suffix. Some suffixes surprisingly are used more than one would expect: - ಕೊಪ್ಪ (koppa), numbering about 1.6%, centred around Shivamogga   - ಕಟ್ಟೆ (katte), is a suffix for about 1.1%+ places. One sees an interesting trail along the way from Belagavi to Bengaluru of such places; perhaps, stages of stops on this important old trade route?! - ಕಾವಲು (kavalu), is a suffix for about 1.1%+ place names; these were places of deployment of guards / look-outs, concentrated in Old Mysuru. - ಸಂದ್ರ (sandra), is a suffix for about 1.1%+ place names in Karnataka, like Mayasandra. It is possibly a derivative of ‘ಸಮುದ್ರ’ – possibly due to water bodies or as some say, waves of resistance against the British rule. Many well-know suffixes like Nagara, Palya, Kote, Pattana - have less than 1% presence. The team took great care to club together variants due to changes to suffix in kannada on ‘sandhi’ (joining of words). This was quite an exciting work for the Latlong Aaloka Analytics team. Look forward to hearing feedback. Also, do please write to us, on what other interesting topics should be explored! Rahul R Sindaghatta Pratima G

Electric 2 Wheeler (#E2W) adoption is slowly gathering pace in India. In Jan-Jun 2024 (1H24): 96k+ - E2W sales in Maharashtra, highest India. 10.6% - Penetration of E2W in Maharashtra, compared to 6.1% in India. 25% - Penetration in Kolhapur Analysis uses Latlong Aaloka Auto module. Write to us for demo & trial of Aaloka. #EV #Location

As Indian Parliament is set for an election for the post of the Speaker for only the 3rd time, our analytics team was curious to look at geographical spread of the constituency from which past speakers have come from. - Andhra Pradesh has had the maximum opportunity - Punjab follows in the next place - No speaker from some of the large states like Uttar Pradesh & Tamil Nadu More such insights are possible with Latlong Aaloka.