Move
over Google Street
View. A medium-sized Mumbai-based mapping dense is looking to duplicate
the Internet search giant’s famed service with the launch ofWonobo on Tuesday.
Google
Street View, which is at present stressed with Indian establishment to get the
required permissions to take pictures of Indian city streets, works by
capturing photos of almost every street in major cities and stitches the images
together to create a 360-degree panoramic vision of the streets.
Wonobo,
which was launch by Genesys International — a Mumbai-based company that was
founded over two decades ago by brothers Sol and Sajid Malik— works on the same
principles as Google Street View and is now available for 12 major Indian
cities and will soon be expanded to 54 cities.
Wonobo,
which has been incubate by an almost $35 million investment, is a 360-degree
view platform that offers a 3D view of cities and comes with placeholders to
point towards businesses, city guides, stories and on foot tours.
According
to engineering insiders, Genesys has worked closely with government authorities
in a proposal to comply with regulations.
