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Tours

Creating Tours

Tours has been designed to allow you to create a series of waypoints on a map and have written and audio content connected to each waypoint. The waypoints can be taken from existing items in Map Items or you can create custom items that belong specifically to that Tour.

Adding a Tour

  • Click on the Add Tour button and add the title, start location, an illustrative image and a description about the tour.
  • You can then choose to Add Existing Item or Add Custom Tour Item to your list of waypoints.
  • Add Existing Item brings up a searchable list of points that are already in the Map Items database. Simply select one of these and add a new point.
  • Add Custom Tour Item brings up a map view which asks you to create a new pin and then drag it to the required location. (Note you can search and zoom in and out on the map to help you).
  • Once a Custom Tour Item has been created, add the title, description, opening hours, address, image and URL associated with it.
  • Keep adding Tour Items until it contains all the waypoints you wish to have on your tour.

Customising The Route

  • The tour route is automatically generated by Google which plots the shortest walking route between the points.
  • To customise the route, you can reorder the points by dragging and dropping them within the list. Each time you do this a new route will be calculated.

Adding Audio

  • Every waypoint in the Tour list has an audio icon associated with it.
  • Click on the icon and you will be given the opportunity to upload or edit an MP3 file.
  • If an MP3 file is available for a waypoint, a ‘play’ icon will be shown within the smartphone app. Click on the play icon to hear the audio.
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