The Platinum Road app updated

The audio features stories derived from Delmar's 'road book', The Platinum Road, covering the route from Gauteng to Botswana along the N4 highway, and on the N1 between Pretoria and Bela Bela.

Delmar said that after nearly eight months on the app stores it came time for a content update: "The response we've had from users has been phenomenal thus far, but we always planned to add to the app and improve users' overall audio experience, to just keep giving them more lekker content. We've expanded on the app's existing stories, with a few more tucked in at key points along the route. On top of that, we've also added handy details about toll plazas along the way, as well as information about a few of Bakwena N1 N4 Toll Concession's social initiatives."

Sponsored by Bakwena, the Platinum Road app contains images, maps and stories about the history of Gauteng and North West, including anecdotes about vast vanished Tswana cities and the Anglo-Boer War, quaint towns and settlements, frogs and mining. The stories can be listened to anywhere in the world, but, on the road, are triggered by a smartphone or tablet's inbuilt GPS functionality, without the user incurring any data charges.

Mobile adaptation

Produced by Tourism Radio in Cape Town, Delmar said that the app is the perfect mobile adaptation of his book: "All the stories in the app can be found in The Platinum Road. The app shows, however, how technology can be used to deliver engaging content to people on the move, and tell stories in ways we never thought possible."

For more, go to www.tourismradiocityguide.com/app/the-platinum-road