ETH Research Lab and III Commonwealth Youth Games 2008, Pune : driveme.in

Apart from the social network sites, people often visit Second Life to get
the experince and feel of any place. For example, some organizations have built
up a virtual building inside Second Life which is exactly same as in real world.
So user can see, take a tour and also have meetings arranged virtually.
www.driveme.in is a website which has built up an exact replica of a city on the
web. It was built keeping in mind that a visitor will get a complete experince
of driving through the streets of a city before he actually visits it. Providing
community based features such as flagging of places, local business listing, etc
were also among its objectives. Apart from these, the site is also an
alternative web based advertising platform for individual as well as businesses.
Regarding business challenges, they didn't face any because the project was
first of its kind and did not have any compititors. Two different orgainizations
that have benifited from this project inlcude Commonwealth Youth games 2008
website, where this project served as a great utility for visitor to experience
the place before they actually visited and secondly, ETH research lab, which is
located in a remote location. Here the event was attended by about 1000 guests,
and driveme.in provided visual driving directions on its website. As of now,
only Pune and Panchgani are there on the site. In the future, more places will
be added . A mobile based solution is also in the pipeline.