Monday, May 7, 2007

Lets help each other!

Hi friends,

How are you doing? Hope you all are in the best of your health and spirits. The reason for this post is that I solicit your help in a small project I am working on. Please read on for details.

We sure spent/spend quite a number of hours in planning for a long weekend trip or any other trip. In most cases, we would call friends in or around the city where we plan to visit and get their inputs about the things we are interested in. With this information, we make an itinerary, find hotels, book cars/air-tickets, get maps etc and we are on our way.

If we don't have a friend, we would search on net for hours to come up with a good itinerary, but we still have a concern about how it would turn out. Obviously, it takes more energy and time to plan using Internet, not to mention the lower confidence in itinerary.

We faced the hassle quite a few times and came up with the idea of making a simple webapp which can help us out. Basically what it does is build on the knowledge of people who have already been to these places and give you real advice you can use. Eg. I have put in few of the places you can visit around San Diego as he knows it best. So if any of you want to visit San Diego, you can use the information put in by me to make your decisions.

Right now the application is pretty simple but we are aiming to make it more sophisticated so that when you ask - "Hey! I got two days vacation and want to visit San Diego and I am interested in beach activities, could you tell me what places I should be visiting" and you get a nice itinerary with attractions to visit, approximate time it takes to cover each attraction and suggestions on where you could stay etc. We would like to share our experiences of our trips so that we can help our friends in planning their trips. In this regard we solicit your inputs on the trips you must have been to, you planned to or any other information you could provide us.

To make it easier for you to enter the details, please use the following site:

http://svn-rknowsys.no-ip.info:28333/


Please help us in:
1. Gathering information/interesting tour details you must have had. Please provide as much details as possible.
2. Gathering feedback on the information collection forms/method used.
3. Any other improvements and any suggestions on what could be of value to you in planning your next trip.

All you have to do is go to the web-site and fill in the details of places you know best. For Eg. KC lives in Hyderabad and can fill in information about Charminar, Golconda, other historical places (and there are many) in and around Hyderabad.


We appreciate your help in advance. Please contact either

Suresh(mrdsureshkumar@gmail.com) or

KC(kcramakrishna@gmail.com) if you have any questions.

Please pass on to other friends who you think might be able to help us.

Thanks
Suresh