City guide on mobile for rail users

June 16, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:45 am IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

: Rail travellers no more have to wander around the city looking for a nice café or street signage or ask people for ATM availability. With Rail Wisdom on your mobile, one can know what’s around.

Rail Wisdom, a unique feature in the RailYatri app, is a new way to explore the destination. It is a train traveller’s personal city guide that provides lesser-known, crowd-sourced information about the city, railway station, nearby service facilities, restaurants, shops, and places of interest.

The information is generated by rail travellers, adding to its credibility. It’s a quick, easy, and smart location-based feature that provides lesser known, unique, relevant, and updated information.

All one has to do is select the city and it pulls out all relevant wisdom about the city. Similarly, one can query similar details for any other cities that you plan to travel to. Anything and everything that can help a fellow traveller is considered wisdom. The orange dots on the map represent the railway stations and cities for which at least one wisdom has been added.

“You won’t miss anything worth knowing while travelling if you have Rail Wisdom on your mobile phone,” says Manish Rathi, Co-founder and CEO, RailYatri.in. Rail Wisdom allows travellers to add and share their own travel wisdom with fellow travellers and users of the app.

Once the wisdom is received for inclusion, it is reviewed by the administrators for its applicability, appropriateness, and editorial correctness.

If it is accepted and published, the contributor will receive a post on his/her Facebook wall.

Rail Wisdom is available on www.railyatri.in and RailYatri app, which can be downloaded free from Google Playstore. RailYatri app is also available for Nokia and Windows users.

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