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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 !!

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

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.

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

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