I read this new research did by Google on how to navigate or drive using Google map on the Indian street. It is quiet interesting and fabulous work done by Google again :) I would suggest you to read this blog entry from Google office blog site by clicking the following link....
Go thataway: Google Maps India learns to navigate like a localCheers! & have a happy navigation if you driving on Indian street....
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
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RouteGuru pioneered this innovation!
Great post, @Kamal.
But we would like to let the world know that we (RouteGuru) pioneered this innovation (landmark-based driving directions) back in 2007.
Please check out our product for a technology demonstration (live for Delhi area).
We use Google Maps API to (and only to) display our route on a graphical map.
We also claim that our landmark-based directions technology is better than Google's. Please compare for yourself for any pair of locations in Delhi-NCR.
It's sad that Google, a company with corporate motto "Don't be evil" is promoting their good launch as a pioneering ‘innovation’, without a mention that we have been evangelizing this innovation in the same market (India) since 2007.
But thanks to Google, global markets are opening up to this age-old concept now. Indeed, we have started receiving (a) recognition as pioneers of this technology, and (b) new interest in our technology and business from markets that were foreign to us till now.
Thanks again for the post and enabling this discussion.
Cheers,
Avinash
Co-founder, CEO, RouteGuru
(Avinash at RouteGuru dot com)
Hi Avinash,
Had a wee look at RouteGuru website... it is fantastic & I wish you & your team Good Luck on developing similar kind of software for other Indian cities....
Cheers
Thanks, @Kamal.
At the moment, our focus is on continuing to improve our technology.
Expansion of services to other cities in not in the immediate roadmap, although we are always open to explore partnerships with interested business-groups for taking our product to pan-India scale and to global markets.
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