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Innovation Point launches gasmappers.com
23 June 2008
The most recent product of Innovation Point is Gasmappers.com, a platform for comparison of fuel prices. The development was done by thirdlabs team and sponsored by Innovation Point. The team, thirdlabs, consists of the Innovation Developers Rui Marinho, Sérgio Castro and Tiago Ribeiro and focuses on web 2.0 projects.Compare prices of fuel and choose the cheapest petrol station got much easier now. The communitarian website gasmappers.com launches a new generation of comparators and introduces the possibility for users to look for petrol stations and prices within a certain radius around a location selected by the user.
The price of fuel and its impact on the budget of households and business is a big topic nowadays, especially due to the significant increase of the costs of the basic raw material - oil.
With the liberalisation of fuel prices in Portugal, the choice of the petrol station to fuel the car can be a relevant form of saving money - provided that the motorists have a tool with updated prices and the mechanisms of geographical search.
The project gasmappers.com closes that niche. It is based on a concept of a community of users who are aware that this problem is a common one and thus contribute to the updating of the fuel prices of petrol stations. On the basis of the more than 2500 petrol stations in continental Portugal gasmappers.com provides a form of fuel price consultancy which is very easy and truly useful.
It is sufficient to write the name of the location, to define a search radius in km and there are already the stations showing up. Want to know where you can buy the cheapest diesel or petrol 95 or any other? Then just select the type of fuel you want in the respective menu and get the stations in an ordered manner. But gasmappers.com depends as well on the mobilisation of the community. Thus Innovation Point invites users to register and contribute to the actualisation of prices whenever possible.
Another interesting function of gasmappers.com is the possibility that the user after registration can select a preferred location – residence of workplace – and then whenever logged in immediately the petrol stations most interesting appear.