How is it that you can buy a map of India in Paris with details as fine as the location of all tyre puncture shops in Delhi (updated every six months)? And you cannot get it in Delhi itself? An Indian satellite can map each square metre of the country, but information -- even at levels of hundreds of square kilometres -- evades people A digitised map of India can be downloaded from Russian or US-based websites, but the Indian government labels, as 'restricted', the same information How is it that map making private companies decide for clients where to locate their new factories (after mapping relevant resources such as water, lack of congestion) when a villager cannot even see, or access information to, the extent of soil moisture depletion before an impending drought? Asks NITIN SETHI