AvMap G6 Touring satellite navigation and tourist guide for iPhone
As of today AvMap, the only Italian player known worldwide in the satellite navigation market, makes its entry into the world of iPhone apps and it does so exclusively launching the first and only application – in collaboration with Touring Editore – combining a navigation system with Tele Atlas maps, valuable information from the most authoritative Italian publishing house in the tourist sector.
G6 Touring, this is the name of the application corresponds to the mobile version of the G6 Touring, the portable navigation device AvMap signed and implemented in partnership with Touring Editore launched in the autumn of 2010.
So said Simone Lazzarini, AvMap CEO of the app G6 Touring: “We decided to undertake this new way to adapt to market trends: the app store these days is approaching 10 milardi share of downloaded applications and is expected around March applications overtake music sales on iTunes. It is therefore an important market, in which a product with AvMap enters not “me-too”, but rather to meet specific needs of users who have neglected the other major satellite navigation companies. That’s why we have created an application with Touring Editore navigation Tourist. ”
“The iPhone version of the navigation system that will” guide “is part of the strategy of our publishing house,” says the director of multimedia content Touring Editore, Florence Frigoni. “In fact we are strengthening our market presence to meet the needs of contemporary travelers and tourists through the dissemination of know-how also through tourism mobile platforms. The next step: to increase substantially the number of our titles available on the iPhone. ”
The application includes:
* More than 17,000 points of interest recommended by the Touring (where to sleep, eat, what to see, what to do) • Information about 813 places of special interest tourism;
* 75 recommended itineraries by region, and to move on foot, by bike or by car accompanied by explanatory texts, pictures and audio;
* Complete list of confidential agreements Touring Members: about 6,000 hotels, restaurants and businesses that provide discounts and privileges for members.
Each point of interest, and provides detailed information useful to plan their trip in detail and with no nasty surprises such as the closing day of the chosen museum or farm in which to enjoy a pleasant stop food and wine. Each classification includes POI Touring, telephone, email, website, company holidays, credit cards accepted and the price range and access for the disabled.
Points can be viewed in your chosen location or position, or to desired criteria such as price or valuation Touring Editore. At the level of the navigation app G6 Touring is characterized by:
* AvMap navigation software;
* 2D or 3D view (bird’s eye perspective);
* At every turn voice guidance with text-to-speech;
* Choice inherent in the best path: the shortest, fastest, AvMap Smart, avoiding toll roads, pedestrian streets, inversions, dirt roads, etc.;
* Speed limits;
* Quick command me home;
Tele Atlas Maps * Italy: Italy (100%), San Marino, Vatican City
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In line with the company’s goal of being able to Buy Doxycycline Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed offer even the most demanding users of high accuracy navigation services and features, as well as applying in partnership with Touring Editore, AvMap is about to launch an application for navigation Brazil, a market of growing importance for AvMap “.
Lazzarini concludes: “In addition to the application G6 Touring AvMap plans to launch several other Apps for iPhone in 2011, so as to meet the diverse needs of navigation of a specialized audience such as that of the campers, who now iPhone can only see points of interest but do not yet have a comprehensive navigation application dedicated to recreational vehicles. “
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