Much awaited
street view for India is over now. People searched and tried to find Street
View for Indian regions and it was invain when they didn’t get any results.
Good news
for Indians is that it came to an end for street view search in google or other
search engines.
Move over Google Street View. A
medium-sized Mumbai-based mapping firm Genesys is looking to replicate the Internet
search giant’s famed service with the launch of WoNoBo on Tuesday.
The company has so far been in
the services business, creating map content for others such as Navteq (provider
of electronic navigable maps), Nokia and Bing, and was involved recently in
creating digital maps of Dubai, Mecca and Medina.
Wonobo street view is being launched initially for 12 cities -- Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Surat, Jaipur, Costal Goa, Kolkata, Agra, Pune. The remaining 42 cities will be launched over the following weeks.
Google
Street View, which is currently struggling with Indian authorities to get the
required permissions to take pictures of Indian city streets, works by
capturing photos of almost every street in major cities and stitches the images
together to create a 360-degree panoramic view of the streets, Genesys overtook
them.
The site
suffered from a little latency on Tuesday, but the company says the speed will
improve in a day or so as they get everything in place.“Wonobo has reduced
resolution of images to speed up with quality service provision and to cope with latency with internet speed, and in future
mobile application may be expected very soon” Genesys Sources mentioned.
Wonobo,
which has been incubated by an almost $35 million investment, is a 360-degree
view platform that offers a 3D view of cities and comes with placeholders to
point towards businesses, city guides, stories and walking tours.
According to
industry insiders, Genesys has worked closely with government authorities in a
bid to comply with regulations. They are the first urban chronicle of today’s India, having mapped
panoramic imagery of thousands of square kilometres and close to 10 million
places of interest across the country and WoNoBo
will be a major value creator for an entirely new ecosystem of businesses in future told by Sajid Malik, CMD, Genesys International.
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| Map View and Street View in WoNoBo ~ Bangalore |
WoNoBo's main street view service provides a map on the left side of the
screen and the street view on the right (At corner window map option available). You
can click any part of the map and get the corresponding street view. You can
look all around a point on a street.
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| Map View |
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| Street View |
There's a search box
to find locations. As of now it is not pricing for anyone in the market for
local and other business purposes and it may think over it depending on the
requirements and demands for such services said by CMD of Genesys.
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| Directions from one to other location |
Company is putting efforts to give the results with updated
images at least to ensure that images are not old more than six months.
Through this map stories can be created and shared through
social networks and media.
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