The first one in this series is a SMS you can send to find out which PMPML bus routes connect different places in the city. e.g. send the following message to 09220092200

pmt Kondhwa to Baner

and we will send you the following response (we show you connecting routes if no direct routes are found)

Take [101] and transfer at M G Stand to [114A] or Take any of [101,19] and transfer at Sarasbag to [228]

Best of all, its FREE to use and you only pay local SMS charges as per your plan.

We have done so for Pune using the PMPML’s transit data. The results can be seen at:

http://punetransit.sadakmap.com

The Pune Transit site aims to bring to Pune’s citizens information about transit options available in the city. It starts by attempting to demystify PMPML, Pune’s public bus transport.

Bus Routes: Display all routes, find routes passing through a stop, find route by route-number; view route on a map; rate/give-feedback for a route, etc.

Map Route Finder: An interactive route finder where you simply select the time you wish to travel, click on the map to indicate your origin and destination and we will find you routes along with the timings.

Volunteer: The site can only be useful if the bus routes and stops/stations are kept upto date. We have started off by plotting and loading a majority of the information, but we sure can use some help from dedicated volunteers to help keep the data current. So signup to be a volunteer mapper today.

Forum: Finally, use this forum to discuss all pune transit related issues. Suggest ideas, organize volunteer meets, and more.

The first in this series is a game called “Tag Places” http://www.sadakmap.com/fun/tagplaces
Users can create their own Quiz or attempt to solve the Quizzes created by others. Those with best times find a place in the “Hall of Fame”.

We have started off by publishing 2 quizzes:

1. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
2. Picture Quiz
3. Oh San Francisco

Try your hand at these and record your best times. Do let us know how it goes.

http://sadakmap.com/twitter

There are 2 ways to use this:
1. Post updates to your twitter account: click on corresponding button above the map and then click on the map from where you want ot “twit”. You can type an update of any length (long posts are welcome) – SadakMap will send the first 110 chars and a link pointing back to the location on the map. Your followers can read your entire message by following the SadakMap link.
(for the technically inclined: Twitter doesnt support single signon so we had to enable SSL on this page as recommended by the Twitter dev folks. Once Twitter implements http://oauth.net, we will be able to do more)

2. Twitter Search: this is a way to query Twitter by randomly clicking on the map (you may be surprised by what you find – surf the world). Start by clicking on the “Twitter Search” button above the map and go berserk clicking on the map and see what you come up with.

Help spread the word.

Regards,
Unmesh.
www.SadakMap.com
Make your mark
twitter: sadakmap

e.g. if your mark URL is http://www.sadakmap.com/p/Nisarg-Restaurant/

you can get a static image at http://www.sadakmap.com/p/Nisarg-Restaurant/image/

By default, the size of this image is 300×300. If you wish to specify a custom size just add /size=wxh/ at the end of the above URL

e.g. http://www.sadakmap.com/p/Nisarg-Restaurant/image/size=300×200/

Here is the above image embedded in this blog post using the <img> tag

Title:	Indian Startups
Description:	"A Group displaying Startups located across India

Instructions:

First, these instructions apply ONLY if you have installed wordpress on your own hosted site. These instructions WILL NOT work if your blog is hosted by wordpress.com (e.g. yourblogname.wordpress.com). This is because unfortunately “plugins” are not allowed on wordpress.com

1. Download and install the “Pageview” plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pageview/

2. Make sure you have activated the “Pageview” plugin

3. When writing a blog post, insert the following text in your post where you want your sadakmap group to show up. Make sure you put this text inside of square brackets “[" "]”

pageview http://www.sadakmap.com/embedgroup.php?group=GROUP-NAME “GROUP-TITLE” “GROUP-DESCRIPTION”

replace GROUP-NAME, GROUP-TITLE, GROUP-DESCRIPTION with appropriate values.

For the Group you see above, we inserted the following in our blog post (inside square brackets)

pageview http://www.sadakmap.com/embedgroup.php?group=Indian-Startups “Indian Startups” “A Group displaying Startups located across India”

A big welcome to Yahoo Users. Make your mark.

Happy mapping…

• Indian Startups
• DLF Indian Premier League 2008

Coming soon, a RSS-like feed for posts on the map. Lets you subscribe to Groups, updates on specific markers, areas on the map. Sure does sound like a “blog” – just on the backdrop of a map, though.