1. A portable information-providing apparatus comprising a position detector which provides data of a user's position, a direction detector which provides data of a direction as determined by the user, a processor which operates to correlate said position and direction data with information of features in the user's surroundings as stored in a memory together with position information of the same, and information output means operative to provide said information to the user, said information being related to a feature in the user's surroundings at least approximately along said direction determined by the user by simply pointing the apparatus in the selected direction towards the feature of interest.