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I'm still waiting for an AR-style app which overlays the image from your phone camera with points of interest or GPS co-ordinates of distant places. Or hell, e
by wackget 5y ago
I'm still waiting for an AR-style app which overlays the image from your phone camera with points of interest or GPS co-ordinates of distant places.
Or hell, even just a map where you can turn your phone facing a general direction and see an approximate line of sight.
- tony_cannistra 5y agohttps://www.peakfinder.org/mobile/ https://www.peakfinder.org/mobile/
- ramses0 5y agoIn the early days of iOS there were tons of those apps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging#Wikipedia_article_geosearching_apps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging#Wikipedia_article_g... """One of the first attempts to initiate the geotagging aspect of searching and locating articles seems to be the now-inoperative site Wikinear.com, launched in 2008, which showed the user Wikipedia pages that are geographically closest to one's current location. The 2009 app Cyclopedia works relatively well showing geotagged Wikipedia articles located within several miles of ones location, integrated with a street-view mode, and 360-degree mode."""
- stonogo 5y agoAh, well... To absent friends! https://www.wired.com/2012/05/hands-on-nokia-city-lens-beta-augmented-reality-for-your-lumia-phone/ https://www.wired.com/2012/05/hands-on-nokia-city-lens-beta-...
- hdersch 5y agoGeoImageViewer, not an overlay but side-by-side view of photograph and maps. Clicking the image anywhere (not just precalculated pois) shows corresponding location in map and vice-versa. https://hdersch.github.io/ https://hdersch.github.io/