World Taximeter
Worlwide Taxi Fare Calculator
The team
Jose Lorenzo
Had the original idea for World Taximeter while spending his holidays in New York. He was trying to find out how much the taxi from the airport would cost. Now, back in Madrid, he walks daily to his job as development chief and technology leader in idealista.com.
Gerardo Robledillo
Started hailing taxicabs in Madrid while he was working for idealista.com. He then moved to Prague to work for monster.com in their MonsterLabs. He is now again in Prague (after a detour to Barcelona) trying to dominate the world with 360 Cities and expatistan.com.
Dani Jimenez
Dani has shared some taxis in Madrid with the other ones, coming and going from work at idealista.com. After playing a lot of different instruments in idealista, he is now drumming as R&D manager.
Integrate worldtaximeter in your site
We have a lightwight version of our search engine that can be embebed within an iframe in any website. Don't worry about the technichalities. If you can to copy/paste, that's all you will need to add this widget to your website.
You can see a live example of this integration in Reiseplaneten's travel guide for London or New York.
If you are interested in allowing your users to find out how much will it cost them to get to your shop/hotel/conference/garage/concert/... by taxi, drop us a line to and we'll email you back the code to embed the worldtaximeter form in your site.
In the press
We have been featured in different media, including:
BBC's technology TV program Click, in the section 'Webscape by Kate Russell'. She talks about us starting on the minute 3:55.
the TV show 'Get Connected', aired on Canada's BNN and G4 Tech TV.
The UK’s video magazine 'ChannelFlip Web'.
the radio show 'Tech Talk with Marc Saltzman' in Toronto's CFRB.
an article in Frommer's Travel Guides :
"The taximeter site lets you input two addresses (or landmarks) and gives you a surprisingly accurate fare, including all of those weird supplements for luggage, airport access, and estimated waiting time."
the technology blog makeuseof.com :
"One of a kind online service where you can instantly calculate the cost of a taxi ride in a number of top cities worldwide. ...
Definitely a must-have for any frequent traveller."
and many more ...
Logos
Credits
Icons by famfamfam | Built with Ruby On Rails | Design by Quartet Studio
Thanks to Eirik Hektoen for proof reading and correcting our pityful English.
Thanks to Tilman for providing useful data for our Berlin calculator.