Driveme.in

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driveme.in is a street view application that gives a drive through experience using a web based virtual car. driveme.in displays street level imagery that closely resembles the view that a person driving a real car would get is a local search service designed to help people find, explore, enjoy and share their favorite places online. A unique combination of entertainment and utility, driveme.in brings a virtual “drive-through-city” experience right on the desktop.

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[edit] Launch

The website was launched in October 2008, on the occasion of the III Commonwealth Youth Games, by including a link in the official website of the Commonwealth Youth Games 2008, cygpune2008.com. As of October 2008, the application covered street level imagery of the city of Pune in India.

[edit] Free Serivces

driveme.in covers street imagery of over 600 Kms of Pune city in India. It provides useful facilities to registered members, such as posting flags, whereby people can mark places and help others know the place even better; people can record and share paths with others that can be played back. So you need not explain how to reach your home from your friend’s home, just drive virtually and share! You can even take a snap and upload it, so you can now show your friends how your home, or office looks like. And the best part is all this is absolutely free!

[edit] Premium Services

Registered members can buy for themselves such e-addresses, using which they can mark places on the streets and distribute so that others know how to reach the address through automated landmark based driving directions. The unique feature of such e-addresses is that the same address can be mapped to several places. For instance, a bank can have an address called ATM, which could be mapped to several of their ATMs at various places. Subsequently if a user looks up for the driving directions to this address, the driving directions to the nearest ATM from the present virtual location would be generated.

driveme.in operates on a unique advertising model where advertisers can place balloon based text messages over the street imagery at designated locations, and build their own campaigns. These advertisements are not automatically context sensitive; this presents an opportunity to the advertisers to identify the context from the imagery, for example, traffic, and place their advertisement suitable for that context.

[edit] Releases

driveme.in made its debut on October 12, 2008 in Pune, India. The services were first offered to III Commonwealth Youth Games, 2008, where a link to driveme.in was placed in the official CYG website in the Pune map section.

The website is not fully compatible with Windows Vista and hence doesn't support most of the Vista clients. To counter this, a desktop version for XP/Vista was launched in December 2008.

[edit] Areas included in Pune

Agriculture College Road Airport Road Baner Road Bhandarkar Road
BMCC Road Chandani Chowk Dandekar Bridge Deccan Gymkhana
Deep Bunglow Chowk Dhole Patil Road East Street Fergusson College Road
G.A. Kulkarni Road Ghole Road Jail Road Janawadi
JM Road Karve Road Lalbahadur Shastri Road Law College Road
Laxmi Road Mhatre Bridge Narayan Peth Pashan Road
Paud Road Prabhat Road Pune Municipal Corporation Race Course
Range Hills Road Sarasbag Senapati Bapat Road Shankersheth Road
Shirole Road Sinhagad Road Swargate Tilak Road
NIBM Road Kondhwa Undri Pisoli

[edit] Areas in Panchgani

Ambedkar Garden Anand Sagar Rest House Bahai Academy Batha High School
Bel Air Hospital Bilimoria School Blooming Dale School Blue Country Resort
Brilliant Academy Chesson Road Cliff Inn Resort Codesh High School
Dandeghar Dawn Academy Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat Fidai Academy
Fossil Park Ghatjai Mandir Gods Valley International School Green Valley Society
Harrisons Folly Kedareshwar Mandir Khingar Khingar Road
Kimmins High School Millenium Park Mount Castle New Era Development Institute
Panchgani Kachra Depot Panchgani Orthopaedic Center Panchgani Police Station Panchgani ST Stand
Parsi Point Rashmi Choke Sharad Pandit Stadium Sherbaug
St. Josephs Church St. Peters Church Summer Plaza Resort Sydney Point
Table Land Table Land Road Wisdom High School

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[edit] Media Coverage

[edit] Contact information

driveme.in@gmail.com

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