And for the decision, which target actually controlled at will, it is significant that in addition to the actual hike visitor attractions can be included in the broadest sense in the trip. Exactly for these reasons, the team of the walking Atlas Germany works very slender tourist regions. So individual location information in the amount of 500 DIN A4 pages were researched alone in the pilot region Westerwald a low mountain range landscape between the rivers Rhine, Lahn and dill and victory in the catchment area of the countries of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia text. As a result, this means: no matter where you go in the Westerwald, you know in advance what there are places of interest along the route, and whether a trip is worth. To plan a trip in the short term, it is necessary that obtained all the relevant information immediately. Therefore is equipped walking Atlas Germany with a topographical map of the country, in which all hikes in the form of GPS data are registered.
So the walk directly on a mobile navigation device can be transmitted and it is regardless of printed maps. Specifically this integrated GPS support is for the two founders of major importance: If you consider on Thursday afternoon to drive this weekend in the green time not enough to order a map at the Tourist Office of a municipality by mail. Without GPS problem in future”, explains Dr. Thomas Becker of the walking Atlas editorial. Today, there are over a million hikers who walk with GPS and digital maps. The use of this technology spread extremely fast, almost by default, but now new mobile phones are equipped with GPS receivers.
It is estimated that by 2013, over 20 million such GPS enabled mobile phones in Germany will be available. Currently, E.g. only 3.4 million Apple iPhones with GPS reception on T-Mobile in Germany have been delivered. The official launch of the walking Atlas Germany is planned for April 2010. Now you can the pilot region on Watch so far 140 piece Westerwald and the published walks and use. Since many locals in their direct environment beautiful routes know is walking Atlas Germany as join system”is applied. In addition to the editorial staff, all readers can publish walks in the hiking Atlas as GPS route with tour description and images. This principle of Wikipedia will help to integrate many local walks and to offer a great deal of alternatives for Ausflugswillige. The last twelve months took advantage of the founders to build the technical system and to create a first inventory of content. With the launch in April of walking Atlas Germany has a first closed region and from then the offer is further expanding gradually. The next destinations are the Siegerland and the Sauerland and the Lahn-Dill – Bergland and the Taunus.