Advice Directory - Virtual Guide Books

Internet publishing is changing in line with the way people search out information in the modern age. Printing has been with us for a few centuries, and will be with us for some time to come, but the growth of reading is in electronic media. As the number of people with access to the Internet continues its rapid growth, the searching for information through electronic media is growing at the same pace. No longer do we have to look up information by flicking through books. Also the provision of information is no longer limited to conventional publishers. A new style of publisher is emerging - the 'web-publisher'.

There is a massive growth in the amount of information that is available for 'free' from websites which previously you would have paid for through the purchase of a book. Several organisations have an interest in providing information, particularly 'tourist information'. Where once you had to visit a Tourist Information Office, you can now call up the information through their website. This development is going to revolutionize 'travel guide book publishing' as tourist offices become website-publishers.

You don't need to be 'mastermind' to see that the internet is the future for 'guide book' publishers, but every advance has its caveat. It is difficult to know how up-to-date the information is, and whether it can be relied upon. As with books you will come to trust some publishers over others, but with web sites it can be difficult to establish this type of relationship. News Groups and Chat Rooms can provide useful information once you have sifted through the banal, the biased, and just plain barmy. If there is one problem with the Internet it is that we have too much information and it is difficult to decide which information we can rely on.

Google Earth an amazing breakthrough!
once upon a time you had to rely on books and photos to give you an idea of what somewhere would be like when you got there. Then along comes Google Earth to show you what a place is really like and in real-time!
Even more amazing is that all the thousands of walking routes contained on our Personal Navigator Files CD can be converted into Google Earth files;
go to http://web.295.ca/gpz550/OziToGoogleEarth/ to download the exe file that will convert the Oziexplorer files on the CD into Google Earth files.
Users of the full versions of GPS Utility and Oziexplorer will be able to simply load our PNF files into their software and then save them as Google Earth format files.
Bring your converted files into Google Earth and you can go virtual-walking on all of the routes at Home & Abroad in our Walk! series of guidebooks!!!!!!
Forget the TV schedules and go walking with us in Aracena, Lake District North, Lake District South, Tenerife, La Gomera, Peak District, South Downs, La Palma, Lanzarote, Brecon Beacons, Dorset, Axarquia, Madeira, Dartmoor, Exmoor, South Pennines, Yorkshire Dales, Mallorca North & Mountains, Mallorca West, Menorca, Andorra, and the Alpujarras from the comfort of your PC running Windows XP and on broadband. Once you have seen the power that our PNFs CD brings to Google Earth you will be amazed. See our PNFs CD for more details.
PNFs CD version 3.02 includes Google Earth files of our routes allowing you to go real time virtual walking on DWG's walking routes.

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