Discover Hidden Treasure

Visitors to Minehead who have downloaded the Minehead Maritime Mile app can unlock bonus content as they walk along the mile-long seafront. 3D models of some of Minehead’s iconic maritime history are brought to life with Augmented Reality, and archive videos reveal how Minehead used to look in yesteryear.

The App also features a quiz, with a prize for those who complete it, and souvenir selfie frames to share with friends, family and followers.

“Working with Dan from Audio Trails has been a pleasure. The Minehead Maritime Mile Trail App has exceeded expectations! … we are delighted with all features especially the augmented reality, it offers more interaction and interest for visitors to Minehead.”

Nicki Maclean, Tourism & Economy Officer – Energy Infrastructure of Taunton Deane Borough Council and West Somerset Council

“The Maritime Mile showcases Minehead’s history and heritage and is … Read More »

‘Ayr Through the Ages’ is a location-aware trail through Ayr’s rich and colourful past.

The trail leads you from the 13th to the 21st century, guiding you to 24 key locations and points of interest around the auld town. Learn about poet Robert Burns’ home town and the stories associated with him and other historical figures such as William Wallace. Whether you wish to spend all day exploring and listening or just have half an hour to spare, this app will help you find the nearest point of interest to your current location, and offer you glimpses into Auld Ayr.

Souvenir selfie

At some of the stops take a souvenir selfie and share it with friends, families and followers.

The next version of the app will include audio files to listen to at seven custom made benches that are being designed and installed by … Read More »

Visitors to Derby’s biggest and brightest festival will be guided by placesandtrails.com this year.

Derby Festé is an annual festival of a wide range of street art, theatre, music and family fun. Every year the event attracts more than 30,000 people to the streets of Derby.

Feedback from previous years has suggested that visitors have found it difficult to navigate their way to the free events spread throughout the city centre from noon on Saturday 30th September 2017.

With a packed programme of diverse acts, Gravity Digital (who co-ordinate the market activities for Derby Festé) contacted Audio Trails on behalf of Déda Derby UK for a simple solution to this problem.

Audio Trails have been providing digital solutions for heritage sites and tourist attractions for more than a decade. Our location-aware native (iOS and Android) platform has been used to build apps for the Yorkshire … Read More »

A location aware app with free Ordnance Survey mapping to help you discover the archaeology of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ingleborough Archaeology Group (IAG) is based in Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales of England. Its focus is on the Ingleborough massif and the surrounding valleys of Kingsdale, Chapel le Dale and Ribblesdale.

The Group exists to further research and understanding of the historic heritage of its core area by archival research and archaeological investigation. It has been involved in a broad range of excavations.

Audio Trails were approached to create an app to showcase some of the groups finds along three archaeology walks in the National Nature Reserve on Ingleborough, North Yorkshire, England. The three walks are all approximately 5 miles long. Two depart from Ribbleside (one heading to Selside and the other to Great Douk and Southescales), whilst the third takes in South House, Sulber and … Read More »

From cave paintings to modern day street art, humans have been leaving their marks on walls for tens of thousands of years. But when does ‘vandalism’ become graffiti? And when does graffiti become art, or heritage? Dan Boys from Audio Trails attempts to leave his own mark on the subject.

Graffiti, from the Italian word graffiare (to scratch), reflects someone’s urge to say something – to comment, to inform, entertain, persuade, offend or simply to confirm his or her own existence here on earth.

The earliest examples of graffiti can be found in Burgundy, France, dating back more than 30,000 years. Within the caves of Grottes d’Arcy, simple, yet fluid drawings of mammoth can be found on cave walls. In the Roman world graffiti was used to declare an allegiance and illustrate the vicious rivalry between Roman communities. And today, political messages … Read More »