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GehriRoute – Create and share routes (Beta invitations open)

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A paragraph explaining the concept would be a bare minimum to get me to subscribe.

Thank you your viewpoint. I can understand. I just want to tell you something more about this. We will be activating the applied accounts within a week. The idea is actually very popular among the people of northern India. The term "gehri" has a punjabi slang attached to it. It means "rounds". So whenever people go out in the city to take a "round" for leisure, they call it a "gehri".

Check this location page on facebook : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gehri-Route-Sector-891011/210...

Its not even a single real location. Its a complete route.

And check the number of checkins. : It has : 115,717 Checkins !!

Sorry, but I still have close to zero idea what you're offering, or what I can expect from signing up.

We are making a platform where people can create and discover routes. A route is a series of locations. You just have to enter some locations, and create a route out of it.

Now, People can "like" these routes, "check-in" in these created routes and can also share their life moments related to those routes with their friends.

Ah okay, are these routes meant to be done together at a certain time, or anytime at all? Are they meant to be walked, biked, driven, or all the above? I got the idea from your earlier description that these might be something known locally as pub-crawls, a night out at multiple drinking establishments. But still, i'm left with more questions than answers.

Someone once said, "most ideas appear in the implementation". We'll see what more can we do with this.

"Making something people wants". All the best.

I am from north India, but I didn't get it either. If it were spelt as "Ghera" I might have had some luck, but the moment you swap 'h' and 'e', I am lost.

As someone else suggested, stick a sentence somewhere right on top indicating what this site does e.g. "Claim and share your favourite route maps with friends" or some such thing.

Good luck

"Ghera" is a Hindi word meaning "Deep". "Gehri" is a Punjabi word meaning "Rounds" (literally). As @gsa said, we can say it as "a joyride". That is actually a better explanation for it

I think kops does mean 'Ghera' as in circle. You're probably thinking of 'Gaihra' as in deep.

'Gehri route' is more commonly spelt 'Geri route'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri_route

The closest English translation for gehri is "joyride". I'd describe OP's site as Foursquare for joyride routes.

Some technology details would be useful, beyond what's on the About page. From a small crop it looks like it might be built on Google Maps; I'd prefer OSM data as being much fresher than that.

Also, www.blog.gehriroute.net ( the Blog link at the bottom of the pages ) has no DNS A or AAAA records ( I checked OpenDNS and Google DNS too )

Thank you for your suggestion. Yes. We are currently using Google Maps API.I will take your suggestion of OSM very seriously. Is OSM really very fast ? And can you please tell me if their data is accurate in countries like India ?

PS: we don't have a blog right now. We are working on it.

OSM data isn't as detailed as Google Maps is when it comes to India.

Hi! Google Maps will have the advantage in handling huge loads, but I find OSM data much fresher in terms of new developments ( roads, housing estates etc ) and it has much more useful data for pedestrians and cyclists.

I've yet to be impressed by Google Maps' directions for pedestrians, often it sends us along busy roads without sidewalks because there's no commercial incentive to research and include pedestrian-only shortcuts.

I suppose it depends on your userbase.

Nice. In about page, should it be "Let the world know why your city rocks!"?

Also, I get a 404 when I click on top-left corner logo or "Be the first one" button in about page.

Thanks for pointing out. I will just correct it.

An idea based on scaling up a type of advice that people already naturally give each other in person. I like it.

Applied. Pretty clean interface. I like the about page: gehriroute.net/about

Thanks for registering. And thanks for the complement.

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