Explo'r@de vs PatrimoineTour

Whether from on board a boat or onshore, Explo'r@de identifies: - towns, villages and rivers - ports - heritage buildings, cultural sites and institutions - businesses - industrial facilities - boats - maritime transport links and geolocates them in your surroundings. Information bubbles pop up on the landscape to present more than 120 points of interest in words and images. A map and many web links are also provided. Once the application has been downloaded the main features are available offline. Created by the Espace des sciences/Maison de la Mer. Available to all

PatrimoineTour: preservation and transmission of heritage in 50 languages, audio guide, videos, images. HeritageTour in 50 languages is a solution for safeguarding and transmitting heritage and more particularly “micro-heritage”, the one whose stories are not found in Wikipedia because they are too local, but which make up the wealth of your region, your cities and villages. PatrimoineTour provides free access to audio guides, videos, illustrations and voice recordings which describe the place, the monument, the architecture or the artist of the village. The objective of the “PatrimoineTour” application is also to facilitate tourists’ access to the rich heritage stories and “micro-Heritage” of your neighborhoods, your villages, your territories. What is “micro Heritage”? Each town and village in the territory has its own culture, architecture and heritage, street names with its own “heroes”, its own artists, its own stories, which cannot be found on the internet or on “Wikipedia”, because this knowledge is very often transmitted orally from generation to generation. Unfortunately this oral transmission tends to disappear very quickly with the disappearance of the elders, the migration of young people to other places for work, etc. Why HeritageTour? PatrimoineTour provides a unique response, with simplicity of setup and use, so that these “micro-heritages” no longer disappear. PatrimoineTour also accentuates the economic development of our villages and our territories, by highlighting shops, restaurants and hotels, and a dedicated e-commerce site for ordering souvenirs. All this is managed by PatrimoineTour, the tourist site must simply provide the visit sheets in French. The application is then responsible for translating each visit sheet into 50 languages, with audio guide and illustrations, but also the possibility of broadcasting audio and video recordings. Thus the territories and villages take full advantage of the possibilities of digital technology and offer a very rich tourist offer to their visitors. With PatrimoineTour, veterans have the certainty that this “micro-heritage” will no longer disappear; PatrimoineTour has a real public utility.