{"id":463,"date":"2004-10-01T15:29:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=463"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:21","slug":"mapping_delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/mapping_delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t beleive this one, but Stanford sophomore Rohan Verma has created a Mapquest type service for Delhi called, <a href=\"http:\/\/mapmyindia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MapMyIndia.com<\/a>.  Never again will a rickshawallah take me for a crazy trip.  How the heck can you possibly make a map of Indian roads?  When I lived in Delhi a couple years ago I was at the mercy of drivers who didn&#8217;t understand my horrible Hindi when I told them where I wanted to go.  Well I guess it wasn&#8217;t so bad as long as I stuck to main roads.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiawest.com\/cgi-bin\/news\/viewNews.cgi?article=1096567449&#038;Department=Coverpage\" target=\"_blank\">IndiaWest<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n&#8230;Rohan Verma has been working day and night in New Delhi to put together the sort of Web site that&#8217;s mundane for U.S. Web surfers but unheard of in India &#8211; a navigational tool that produces printable maps to provide directions to destinations in India. \n<br>\n<br>\nThe result &#8211; after three-and-a-half months of work leading a team of 10 people -is Mapmyindia.com. &#8220;My role started from conceptualizing it, managing and execution of it, and deploying it, which we did on Sept. 10, and also marketing,&#8221; Verma, who is all of 19 years, told India-West.\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t beleive this one, but Stanford sophomore Rohan Verma has created a Mapquest type service for Delhi called, MapMyIndia.com. Never again will a rickshawallah take me for a crazy trip. How the heck can you possibly make a map &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/mapping_delhi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}