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“Students should be taught with basic tools like atlas and wall maps for better understanding. In many schools, teachers do not have sufficient time to teach maps and often maps would be taught only during the examination,’’ said a geography teacher.The project will also help to simplify the job of teachers. Coimbatore: The school education department will soon be employing apps like Google Maps along with conventional maps to teach geography to students from Classes VI to X.Tech-aided map learning will enable students to pinpoint the exact location of a particular place, department officials said. “Using apps requires just typing the name of a place enabling the device to pinpoint the exact location. This will help such teachers also,” said M Grena Janet, a teacher at the Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Ondipudur..