PocketGPSWorld and Subaru World Rally Team Launch First POI Guide to Wales Rally
Date: Tuesday, November 20 @ 10:01:26 UTC
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 As part of our partnership with the Subaru World Rally Team (SWRT), PocketGPSWorld.Com have been working to bring you some superb first of a kind rally related content for compatible navigation devices.
PocketGPSWorld.Com has partnered with the Subaru World Rally Team to launch, for the first time ever, a free downloadable GPS POI guide to Wales Rally GB.
The guide is compatible with most satellite or personal navigation devices including TomTom and Garmin, and installs key rally destinations as POIs. The Wales Rally GB POI set contains the start and finish locations of each rally stage, the ceremonial start, finish podium, the service park and public car parks for the event, which runs from 30 November to 2 December.
Once loaded onto your satnav the POIs can be selected and navigated to in the normal way. The system cuts out the need for maps and can quickly and easily calculate alternative routes if required. Useful to those working on the rally as well as spectators, the downloadable file also includes the location of the media centre and Rally HQ.
“This is the first time any GPS-based rally guide has been developed, and we’re very excited about its potential” said Andy Philpott, SWRT commercial director. “The mapping will be especially useful on the tricky roads of south Wales, and we hope that everyone from spectators to teams will benefit from this free offering. We’re using this as a test run with the aim of launching the service, via our website, to Subaru fans around the world in 2008, incorporating all 2008 WRC events".
Last month with kind permission of the SWRT we also made available for download the official SWRT Car cursor for compatible TomTom devices. To access the thread and file downloads Click here.
To keep up to date on all the Subaru World Rally Team news visit them at www.swrt.com and the official Wales Rally GB web-site can be visited here.
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