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Re: Fog of World

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Post by vhf » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 1:12 PM UTC

Wintamute wrote: post #140

jasonkester wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You don't need an internet connection to get a GPS fix, so this app would work fine anywhere I think. You then need internet connectivity to sync your accumulated lat/long data back to your account.

Not only you don't need an internet connection to get a GPS fix, but also iPhones geolocation data don't rely on GPS only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

Re: Fog of World

#142

Post by 1123581321 » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 1:58 PM UTC

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 app has a GPS import feature that can import from Dropbox or iTunes. It's not supposed to be used with the phone constantly on the person.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by 6ren » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 4:03 PM UTC

Also a forensic tool, a personal blackbox.

Re: Fog of World

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Post by Bankq » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 4:22 PM UTC

Quick correction: the Chinese translation of supporting iCloud should be 即将支持iCloud, but not 即将支援iCloud

Re: Fog of World

#145

Post by mrbogle » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

Is there any way to get any existing data on the iphone into the app (preferably without too much pain)? I assume it's already logging my info: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

Re: Fog of World

#146

Post by EdgarVerona » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

Great idea! Did you make that? Will there be an Android version?

Re: Fog of World

#147

Post by miahi » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:53 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #20

This looks really nice. I recently switched to Android (which, in my mind, with version 4.1 finally is able to compete with iOS in smoothness/stability while vastly surpassing it in features and usability), so I'm hopeful for an Android version. An Android version would also bring added benefits of smarter/less battery intensive background operation which could make this run all the time. Constant GPS-monitoring like…

We should have hints on titles like "Apple only" so we don't have to read for 5 minutes and then see that it was a total waste of time, having no Android version.

Re: Fog of World

#148

Post by lisper » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:05 PM UTC

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…

> I still can't find a reasonably good offline maps app for Android, for when access to the Internet isn't so easy.

You want this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ulmon.andr...

Re: Fog of World

#149

Post by onethumb » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:57 PM UTC

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…

The app is such a great idea, so I bought it immediately, but I have to say I'm disappointed. Much of my travel abroad happened when I was young. There were no smartphones, or GPS.

But I know plenty of the places I've visited, hotels I've stayed in, train routes I've ridden, etc.

I'd love a way to "paint" the fog away manually, and maybe tag that "painting session" with some metadata (dates, at a minimum, maybe photos, etc).

Possible in the future?

Re: Fog of World

#150

Post by charlieok » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 7:03 PM UTC

I think this is cool, despite the fact that it will undoubtedly leave out some interesting experiences. However, it also serves as a visceral reminder of the kind of data being made available to third parties when using this type of app. It makes me want to create something similar which I and everyone else wishing to use it can then keep entirely to ourselves.