Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd. publishes guidebooks, digital books, city guides, and maps that provide travel details to travelers. It also offers travel tips; language guidance books that contain keywords, basic grammar, and phrases in local languages; and health and safety advice. In addition, the company offers a digital photo gallery that showcases a selection of images to view, share, and save as wallpaper; and an application that allows users to swipe images, and email them to friends and buy the images as posters. Further, it operates LonelyPlanet.com that provides information on travelling. Furthermore, the company produces and develops travel and factual programming for international broadcasters, including the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, SBS, Eurosport, and Current TV. The company was founded in 1972 and is based in Footscray, Australia with additional offices in Melbourne, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Oakland; and California. As of March 20, 2013, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of NC2 Media, LLC.