Roadtour Guides You Back To The Future
Finally, an interesting GPS news piece. A new GPS tour guide that alerts you to Britain’s greatest historical sites as you drive near them should liven journeys up a bit. Invented by history buff Daniel Taylor, the RoadTour software works with Global Positioning (GPS) equipment to trigger audio commentary and pictures of 600 key attractions, including castles, stately homes and battlefields.
The software (£19.95) responds to satellite prompts as cars approach places of historical interest throughout the UK, delivering information narrated by a hot friendly female voice through the SatNav. It means you will no longer have an excuse for being an ignoramus.
Get this: new research commissioned by RoadTour shows that a quarter of people think Leeds Castle is in Yorkshire, rather than Kent, one in ten that the Romans built the A1 and 10% of 18-24-year-olds that Stonehenge is in Norfolk. A further 38% of all those questioned by YouGov believe that Hadrians Wall is in Scotland, not England.
Five years in the making, this invention fulfils Daniel Taylor’s passion for history and his desire to help Britons as well as tourists use technology to get the most out of our heritage. Ironically, GPS technology has perhaps until now put us out of touch with roadmaps and chance discoveries en route. For the dunces, there’s at least one picture of each place.
