Unless you have been living under a rock all these time, you would have used gothere.sg at one point or another. It is now a fantabulous site that I keep dear on the Bookmark Bar on my Camino browser, along with I Can Has Cheezburger and YouTube.
But I digress.
Gothere.sg started out as a decent replacement for streetdirectory.com (after the latter went down from copyright infringement) by using open-source Google Maps and customising locations for Singapore. But the good people behind the site have outdone their horrendously full-of-ads predecessor and many-up the other wannabes fighting for a piece of the mapping pie for our little island.
First they added efficient and user-friendly road name searches on their very pleasing site.
Simple, easy-to-use, soothing san-serif grey text topped with candy colours and rounded edges, all the goodness of Web 2.0. Mmm.
No ads (I am sure many of you out there hated streetdirectory’s cluttered interface to the bitter core).
Then bus routes with bus and train interconnectivity interchangeability interwhateveritis. With duration approximation.
With links to each bus number information to each bus-stop on the roads. And be able to check next-bus-arrival times.
Of course, driving routes. With smart turn-by-turn directions and distances that doesn’t take a lifetime to load.
Hmm. Carpark rates. Not bad.
Teaming up with my other favorite, HungryGoWhere.com for nomnom locations…
Used their own maps while still using the Google Maps interface. Lovely icon designs. Again – more round edges. I like.
Then naturally, comes the ERP charges on simple pop-ups.
Now driving routes AND be able to avoid ERP, EVEN plan the routes based on the bloody time you intend to travel also ok!!!
Then maps that you can freely embed on your website. HMM!
Do you want to AVOID EXPRESSWAYS AS WELL!?!? YES YOU CAN!
THEN YOU CAN NOW GET TAXI RIDE APPROXIMATION WITH ITEMISED BILLING FEATURES.
*heaves*
And then now what?!?!! Omni-directional, paranomic, street-level pictures OMFG!
Is there anything they can’t do?
OMFG!!!
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Just in case you were wondering… nope, this is not a paid ad. It’s just a fan rave 
All screenshots taken off their blog 
Hey there! Glad you like the site. There are probably a lot of things we can’t do, but there are a lot of things that we just haven’t done YET. More stuff is coming.
Thanks for your support.
jussi.
ps. Your cheque is in the mail
Oh goody
Hahaha.
So I have been living under a rock all this time lor… But I really don’t see any need for it leh. Not for me. :p
I LOVE Gothere.sg. Couldn’t do without it. Almost wanted to toss out my street directory yesterday (decided to hang on to it, in case of a blackout
).
couldn’t agree more! i’ve been using the site for some time now, and it beats street directory hands down. its navigation is idiot proof, the design clean and easy to read, and it’s packed with the right information.
Yeap! And I’ve been telling my friends and clients to switch. One of my client which embeds street directory’s link in their email for their office address, after I’ve told them about gothere.sg, they have also switched! They also said that gothere.sg is so much better.
So… do I get my cheque too?
Been living under a rock as well, and yes great writeup! thumbs up.
Yup yup! They have catered for both drivers and public transport users so well and so innovatively… I just had to do this post.
P.S. I wished the pictures on my fan rave are better and less blurry though