Ride-hailing major Uber is likely to opt out of using Google Maps and is planning to contribute to community-owned OpenStreetMap project, reported Business Standard.

The company will roll out this project with the crowdsourcing Wikipedia-like OpenStreetMap (OSM), which allows anyone to edit and update the online maps of cities around the world, the report said.

"We have selected the Delhi-National Capital Region as the first city for this initiative. We do not plan to make any large-scale, machine-generated edits for this project," Suneel Kaw, maps product manager of Uber, told the daily.

For this project, the Uber team will look into three issues - turn restriction, road directionality and road geometry, the report said.