Bangalore, October 16, 2013: Has Google's StreetView, an Indian competitor? By look and feel, WoNoBo -- a creation of leading geospatial solutions company, Genesys International, certainly provides a StreetView-like 360 degree experience as one's mouse sends you zooming down the streets of a dozen Indian metros.
WoNoBo.com has also entered into a partnership with the IndianTourism Ministry's Incredible India, campaign, launching Walking Tours, a product that will enable users to navigate and route their way through cities based on a number of interesting themes.
Says Parvez Dewan, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism: “We are partnering with WoNoBo.com to create a Walking Tours platform, one of the first such initiatives to be undertaken in any country. We believe that this innovative and entertaining technology – aimed at making our most-visited cities extremely easy to walk or drive through – will add a completely new facility to our Incredible India campaign."
WoNoBo.com also offers guides, created by users as well as experts, showing locals where to eat, what to shop for, where to take your children while visiting and a lot more.
Says Sajid Malik, CMD, Genesys International:“Decades of global experience in the geospatial domain have enabled us to build India’s first and most comprehensive navigation platform that also incorporates social media. We are confident that WoNoBo.com will be a major value creator for an entirely new ecosystem of businesses in the years to come.We 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. We also continue to update the platform. On the one hand, this new media service will provide an innovative dimension for users to share stories and build communities; on the other, it will provide local businesses a unique platform to offer a plethora of services.”
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