At RouteGuru, we’re truly proud to introduce “First of its kind” driving directions experience for our users in India
– If you’re tired of ‘asking around‘ for the Route while driving or while being driven, or,
– If you don’t wanna be wrongly driven by well intentioned people with bad direction sense, or,
– Don’t have access to Internet (No laptop/ No GPRS), or
– There’s no-one to call/ ask for the hints?
What do you do?
Next time you’re in the middle of the road and need help, all you need to do is to send an SMS in the below format
rg source to destination (to 56767)
e.g. rg hyatt to shankar road message to 56767 would give a response with Route-Hints™/ the total distance between the two locations/ the approx. Auto-Fare, all within 30 seconds.
Wow! I’m really excited. It will surely take me more time than this to roll-down my car window and ask for the hints. The response encapsulates the following information
1. Route-Hints™ i.e. the major roads, landmarks, Points of Interests to follow while I’m driving towards the destination.2. Distance of each of these landmarks from the start of the journey. Therefore, the distance after the last landmark tells the total distance between the source and destination.3. Left-Right Information i.e. where to take Right or where to take Left. Great! This information is very precise and helped me reach my destination with immense comfort.
4. Auto-Fare – Finding the approximate auto-fare was simply a charm. Now I don’t really need to depend on the mercy of the Auto-Drivers and pay them more than the approximate money.
This also helped me track, where the Auto-Driver was taking me as I kept cross-checking the major landmarks which were falling on the way.
Awesome! Very very useful service. Isn’t it?
For more details, tutorial and explanation on how to use this service effectively, please visit RouteGuru online.
Should you have any feedback to share, please drop me a mail or simply leave a comment on this blog. Who doesn’t love compliments btw!
Till then, enjoy your drive with RouteGuru!
Thinking @ The Bottom of Pyramid 
It’s good. But I found it hard to create a mental picture from the text. Add some more innovation so that when I read the route, I can make a mental picture.
Thanks for the feedback. We are now evaluating the response SMS and perhaps the new innovative format will be visible in a couple of days again.
I’ll surely update you.
This is awesome , especially the Auto fare part, as tourists are fooled by Rickshaw walla’s.
There is other technology call Push Technology, instead of Pull technology that might cost nothing from the user’s perspective
Yes, we have been hearing some great feedbacks from the users,
1. Avinash’s relative saved 70 bucks while travelling by auto from railway station to her home.
2. At NSIT, after delivering my session, the organizer too endorsed something similar for one of her relatives.
Its definitely heartening to hear such things.
About Pull technology, there are certain problem e.g. delays in SMS etc. So currently Push one looks good.