Zoomtra, the travel search engine has partnered with Routeguru for helping the Delhi bound travelers with driving directions.
The service will help tourists who come to Delhi by guiding them through the shortest route between any two locations in Delhi/NCR along with distance and an approximate auto rickshaw fare for that route. The service is auto-prompted when a user searches a flight or a train ‘from or to’ Delhi region on Zoomtra.com. The service will also help Delhiites discover routes to the Indira Gandhi international Airport and various Railway Stations from their location. – source
Routeguru has been operating in Delhi/NCR region for the last few years and it’s high time they expand to other cities (their competitors have deep pockets and are forging bigger partnerships).
What’s your take on RouteGuru’s data accuracy?
Interestingly, I am surprised to see bloggers and journalists reporting about MSN India’s Map launch a month after we reported it.
that’s because they officially unveiled the product yesterday.
mapmyindia is still far ahead of its competitors.
While driving directions are important, end users will not start using them as yet.
It is difficult to find locations on a map in India. Today using technology like skyhook & brightkite it is very easy to figure out where one is.
Once you have that data point, one finds it difficult to find information around that location.
Gathering data is important Yulop is doing a good job gathering data. We will still having a long way to get it usable shape. But google makes it make it accessible.
Only when you have the confidence that you find data around are you going to start looking for directions to get to that place! Most importantly it has to be mobile.
It would interesting to find out what kind phones are used in the market. Let me know if you can point me to some stats.
My 2 Paise!
In the last 1.5 yrs, Routeguru has launched only 1 feature (sms) – I am not sure of their plans.
Is it a part time venture?
Kapil, To answer to you, it is not a part time venture.
Do only regular launches mean the seriousness with the venture?