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Not a half-bad idea that is for the UK folks out there. RoadTour has partnered up with Harden (restaurant reviews) to give real-time (and accurate) real-time GPS-based navigation to good dining around your current location.

You out and about in London and hungry for some Fish and Chips? Pop open the “foodie-Nav” and type in what you want, viola… you are eating at a place that doesn’t serve garbage! (unless that is what you looked up)

I’m happy to start seeing these applications of Nav and additional services. Wouldn’t mind something like this in the US from Garmin that augmented the search results with information from Trip Adviser or the like; so when you were out and about in the country side you could type in the “The Thing” for example and find out that it’s 12miles away, but that it’s a complete waste of time and skip it.

Full announcement after the jump…

Full Announcement:

RoadTour twins with leading guide Harden’s to give on-the-move dining advice.

Wouldn’t it be nice if your Sat Nav could give you decent tips on the best places to eat? Well now it can.

Thanks to a collaboration announced today, users of ‘Harden’s for RoadTour’ can now access trusted reviews of over 3000 UK restaurants, pubs, hotels and cafés, at all price levels, directly from their Sat Nav.

The new product sets a new standard for UK Sat Nav restaurant-guides (which are too often like sticking a pin into Yellow Pages - giving too much choice, with too little information).

The reviews (which include ratings for food, service and ambience) are taken from Harden’s uniquely wide-ranging survey-driven content, which draws on the input of over 8,000 people across the UK (who together contribute 80,000+ independent reviews) every year. Which is how Harden’s famously ‘tells it how it is’.

And it couldn’t be simpler to start: simply load Harden’s for RoadTour onto an existing mobile or Sat Nav.

“So many people have Sat Navs but can find it hard to access quality information; Harden’s excellent guide completes the transition of these devices into true travel companions” said RoadTour’s Daniel Taylor.

Harden’s co-publisher Peter Harden comments: “We’re delighted to be twinning with RoadTour to bring our content, in such a user-friendly format, to travellers while they’re out on the road.”

Information on RoadTour: RoadTour creates audio-visual add-ons for GPS devices, which people can access on the move to enhance their travels. These add-ons are available at www.roadtour.co.uk.

Information on Harden’s: Established in 1991, Harden’s is the UK’s leading, and longest-established, publisher of restaurant reviews based on consumer surveys. These reviews are published in guidebook format, and through www.hardens.com.

Harden’s for RoadTour, £9.95 one-off charge, can be downloaded from www.roadtour.co.uk.

For more information or interviews please contact: press@roadtour.co.uk - 07912 149681.