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Re: Fog of World

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Post by olliwang »

I'm the creator of this app. I'd like to explain the idea behind this app a bit.

Our dream is to go around the world, so we create this geo/map/game hybrid app to remember everywhere we have been in our whole life time. We want to use the exploration map to memorize our entire life when we are old and unable to walk. We also use the map to find out places nearby where we live but we never know. We actually got surprised many times that we found a lot of new places around where we live but we hadn't been in the past ten years.

I visited Japan four years ago, but honestly, I really don't remember those places I had been at that time, except few really famous places. I don't even know what hotels I lived, what roads I walked that time. And that's why I build this app. Now I can see the map and memorize what happened at those places I had been.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by lostlogin »

kristofferR wrote: post #86
beatpanda wrote: post #65

Correction — "Know the Area You Have Explored Around the World, Around A Continent, Or Even Around A Country, Where Your Phone Had A Full Battery, GPS Was Available, And There Was Reliable Electricity For Recharging!" This is dumb. Any given user is going to have massive holes in their map, which, at least according to my experience, will be the best parts of their trips — the parts where they didn't have their phone…

The official Google maps app has an offline mode that works great for me at least. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/06/go-offline-with-g...

Now that is a feature. I'd happily download my home town and run it offline always. Waiting for 3g cell reception to get the map to see where you're to go next is very tedious.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by vhf »

iamdave wrote: post #78
vhf wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reversely, paying 1$ in not much when you'll be travelling 25% of the world. In my very basic example it was 20 000$ payoff for travelling 25% of the world. Let's make it 1 000 000$. I'm still winning. Covering 25% of the world's surface is almost impossible. Yet, with my app idea, people would have most probably paid for taking the 1$ challenge (i.e. paying 1$ to participate, winning 1M$ for being the first to achie…

Are you going to go through with it? I'm looking for a good excuse to just gtfo of dodge for a while

No, I'm not. As I said, when acquiring geolocalization data on a mobile device, I have no way to decide if they're genuine or not.

If you want a good excuse to just gtfo, come to Switzerland exchange business cards with me.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by greggman »

barrkel wrote: post #120
greggman wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Um, have you actually tried using the Web interface? Here's a screenshot from my vacation a few days ago. http://greggman.com/downloads/examples/latitude-maps.png

That completely sucks in comparison to the app posted here, unfortunately.

That may be true but my response wasn't to compare it to the app. It was in response to For that matter, I wish Google Latitude had any useful visual representation of the 2+ years' worth of location data I've been feeding it.

Latitude does have a useful visual representation. It also makes all the data available for you to do any other representation you'd like. See links in screenshot for downloading the data.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by dasil003 »

beatpanda wrote: post #65

Correction — "Know the Area You Have Explored Around the World, Around A Continent, Or Even Around A Country, Where Your Phone Had A Full Battery, GPS Was Available, And There Was Reliable Electricity For Recharging!" This is dumb. Any given user is going to have massive holes in their map, which, at least according to my experience, will be the best parts of their trips — the parts where they didn't have their phone…

Yes, well, unless your doing something dangerous like climbing Everest, any travel you do completely pales in comparison to the early world travelers who went from Europe to Asia or America. It must make you nearly suicidal to think how boring and mundane all your life experiences are in the context of history.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by maurits »

podperson wrote: post #84
beatpanda wrote: post #65

Correction — "Know the Area You Have Explored Around the World, Around A Continent, Or Even Around A Country, Where Your Phone Had A Full Battery, GPS Was Available, And There Was Reliable Electricity For Recharging!" This is dumb. Any given user is going to have massive holes in their map, which, at least according to my experience, will be the best parts of their trips — the parts where they didn't have their phone…

A lot of seriously dedicated "off-the-beaten-track" types will have solar chargers for their iPhones (or whatever), GPS works everywhere except near US Military Bases. I hope they've been judicious in their use of power while in the background. It seems like a cool idea to me. I can easily imagine simply trying to fill in the area I live in much the same way as I would explore nooks and crannies in dungeons maps.

I don't think so. I am a mountain climber and my phone is off and for emergencies only. It is not even a smart phone as they are way to vulnerable and consume to much energy to run.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by jasonkester »

hnriot wrote: post #97
beatpanda wrote: post #65

Correction — "Know the Area You Have Explored Around the World, Around A Continent, Or Even Around A Country, Where Your Phone Had A Full Battery, GPS Was Available, And There Was Reliable Electricity For Recharging!" This is dumb. Any given user is going to have massive holes in their map, which, at least according to my experience, will be the best parts of their trips — the parts where they didn't have their phone…

People turn their phones off? We must know different people because everyone I know has their phone switched on all the time. Not all travel has to be to wilderness, there's just as much enjoyment to be had in visiting regular places, not just middle if nowhere kind of places. They might be boring to you, but that's a very narrow kind of thinking to assume that of others. And unless you're spelunking, there's a very…

Hi, I'm Jason. I don't generally even carry my phone around with me. It sits plugged into the wall most of the time (often switched off), unless I'm going out and know that I'll need to meet up with people.

Now you know me.

Incidentally, I spend an awful lot of my year traveling in places where my phone wouldn't get any signal, were I to switch it on. I think this app would work a lot better for somebody backpacking around Europe than banana boating down the Amazon.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by pm90 »

jasonkester wrote: post #127
hnriot wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People turn their phones off? We must know different people because everyone I know has their phone switched on all the time. Not all travel has to be to wilderness, there's just as much enjoyment to be had in visiting regular places, not just middle if nowhere kind of places. They might be boring to you, but that's a very narrow kind of thinking to assume that of others. And unless you're spelunking, there's a very…

Hi, I'm Jason. I don't generally even carry my phone around with me. It sits plugged into the wall most of the time (often switched off), unless I'm going out and know that I'll need to meet up with people. Now you know me. Incidentally, I spend an awful lot of my year traveling in places where my phone wouldn't get any signal, were I to switch it on. I think this app would work a lot better for somebody backpacking…

>I think this app would work a lot better for somebody backpacking around Europe than banana boating down the Amazon.

The former may be the exact people the makers are targeting. For instance, my parents usually go on 'package tours' where a travel company takes them around in a group; usually its to Europe, AU etc.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by gurkendoktor »

olliwang wrote: post #121

I'm the creator of this app. I'd like to explain the idea behind this app a bit. Our dream is to go around the world, so we create this geo/map/game hybrid app to remember everywhere we have been in our whole life time. We want to use the exploration map to memorize our entire life when we are old and unable to walk. We also use the map to find out places nearby where we live but we never know. We actually got surpri…

But what if the hotels aren't there anymore? All you'll know is that you have been at these geo-coordinates once.

I have the same plan for when I'm old, so I take pictures with my iPhone whenever I want to hold on to a moment (and taking a photo is convenient). The image quality may be crappy, but I end up with one more GPS-tagged picture on the world map. The iPad Photos app nicely visualizes this, before that I'd used iPhoto.

Maybe you could add support for this too and overlay it with the "fog of world"?

Re: Fog of World

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Post by mainevent »

olliwang wrote: post #121

I'm the creator of this app. I'd like to explain the idea behind this app a bit. Our dream is to go around the world, so we create this geo/map/game hybrid app to remember everywhere we have been in our whole life time. We want to use the exploration map to memorize our entire life when we are old and unable to walk. We also use the map to find out places nearby where we live but we never know. We actually got surpri…

Love the idea. Just downloaded.

I agree with some of the other comments that using it in some of the places I've travelled would be unrealistic due to battery life.

Would be great if I could import a csv of my Flight Diary data [1]

[1] http://flightdiary.net/willjennings

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