A living atlas of Hyderabad · Est. 2026

MappingHYD.

Hyderabad, one layer at a time.

Maps that answer the questions this city actually asks — where to eat, where to live, what’s worth the drive, what’s being lost. Built one layer at a time.

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Illustrated Hyderabad: Charminar, Hussain Sagar, the Metro and Financial District joined by a single map route.
Charminar · Hussain Sagar · the Financial District — one route.
Illustrated Hyderabad at 17.3850°N, 78.4867°E — Charminar, a lake, the Metro and Irani chai.

It started on a slow evening. I’d been looking at interactive city maps for places like San Francisco and Bangalore, and one question stuck: why doesn’t Hyderabad have this? So I built a startup map. People shared it, asked to be added — and the gap was obvious. Not that the city lacked substance, but that nobody had built a visible, digital layer on top of it. One map became a series.

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Hyderabad has the data, places and stories. They are scattered. Mapping HYD turns them into useful, searchable maps — one layer at a time.

Open data · real places · a map you can actually use.

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03 live · more in progress

ROADMAP & BACKER LEDGER17.3850° N, 78.4867° E

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